President Donald Trump waving to supporters from the back of a motorcade outside of Walter Reed medical center, where he is receiving treatment for Covid-19. | Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s messaging continues to come out of the same playbook that got America into its current Covid-19 mess.

If President Donald Trump has learned anything from getting sick with Covid-19, he’s not showing it. In his latest tweets and comments, Trump has continued to downplay the coronavirus — even after it put him in the hospital.

Since Trump’s diagnosis last Thursday, he and his administration have seemingly tried to cover up the president’s disease. They’ve downplayed his symptoms. They’ve suggested he needed to be hospitalized not because of his apparently high fever and low oxygen levels but “out of an abundance of caution.” They’ve posted videos and photos of Trump in the presidential