The Packet

Trump and Kayleigh McEnany are now trying to dismiss the pandemic response plan Obama left for Trump as a mere "paper packet" that paled in comparison to Trump's (nonexistent) plan pic.twitter.com/lsQ8UJUqK7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020

You can all see the problem with that--it was in book form. Trump clearly has always preferred information be given to him in the form of puppet show. (This Edward Luce piece is a must-read on the White House's difficulties in grasping and managing the current situation.)

UPDATE: As an example of the problem, I give you, Trump on testing:

“America has now conducted its 10 millionth test. That’s as of yesterday afternoon. Ten million tests we gave. Ten million,” Trump said from a stage at the warehouse event, which had the trappings of a campaign-style rally. “And CVS has just committed to establish up to 1,000 new coronavirus testing sites by the end of this month, and the 10 millionth will go up very, very rapidly.”

“And don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world,” he added. “But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”

(Italics mine.) In Trump's jumbled logic, it almost seems like he's implying a kind of causality regarding testing: the patients tested positive for COVID-19, ergo, they have COVID-19, as opposed to, they had COVID-19, and that's why they tested positive. Just imagine the people who didn't get tested, then, going to the hospital and dying of nothing! Of course, people can only test positive because they do have it. And, of course, some people have the virus in their system, and don't test positive, like Katie Miller, who tested negative until she tested positive for some reason. The Abbott COVID-19 test used at the White House is about 50% accurate.