Former Vice President Al Gore commended President Trump for striking a more serious tone when speaking about the coronavirus recently.
“We still have states that have not adopted the kind of policies that Dr. Fauci and the real experts have advised, partly because they — they’ve made it kind of a political, partisan kind of issue,” Gore said Monday night on CNN. “Now, I think the president, to his credit, has been moving away from that.”
Gore continued: “He’s learned that you can’t gaslight a virus.”
The former Democratic politician-turned-environmental activist also compared the outbreak of COVID-19 to climate change.
“You’ve really got to pay attention to what the scientific facts are,” Gore said. “And, by the way, we need to do that where the climate crisis is concerned, too, because it’s exactly the same thing.”
Democrats are not wise to criticize Trump unnecessarily in a time of national crisis, Gore argued.
“So, I don’t want to get into political potshots at him,” he said. “I want to encourage him to continue the kind of change we’ve seen in the last 24 hours.”
Trump extended federal guidelines Sunday to combat the virus, including social distancing and voluntary self-isolation, and announced more than 1 million people in the United States have tested positive for the illness.
