President Trump wants every comment about the coronavirus by any US official to be cleared by Vice President Mike Pence. Pence is going to be a very, very busy guy over the next many weeks; he doesn’t have a rug large enough to sweep those comments under.

This is simply another attempt to turn the United States into Trump’s personal fiefdom, and I suspect it’s likely to backfire on him terribly.

Harvey Schmidt

Gardner

Note from KBJ: Shouldn't the government speak with one voice, Harvey? If several people were speaking, you'd bitch about that as well, calling it "chaos."