Donald Trump Reportedly Called Alex Rodriguez for Coronavirus Response Ideas
By Kyle Koster
Since we rise each day and read news seemingly created from Mad Libs, there's no reason to bat an eye about President Donald Trump, in the middle of a global pandemic, calling up Alex Rodriguez to get his thoughts. Why? Presumably because things are going so well there is literally nothing else to tackle.
During marathon day of meetings earlier this week, President Trump continued outreach across the country regarding coronavirus & phoned former Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez. Multiple sources tell ABC, the president spoke to ARod from the Oval Office via me & @KFaulders
— John Santucci (@Santucci) March 28, 2020
The call - asking A-Rod for his thoughts - was part of Trump’s continued outreach across the country about the virus. Trump spent much of his week speaking to business leaders & others about how the country is handling the pandemic. https://t.co/UpH5zzKRcE
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) March 28, 2020
A source told the ABC reporters that neither Rodriguez or fiancé Jennifer Lopez will be taking on an official role in the fight, but that the call was "pleasant."
Trump quickly decried the report as fake news.
More Fake News! https://t.co/URewvfAUDl
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2020
Look, there's nothing wrong with taking a few minutes out of the day to pick A-Rod's brain for whatever is rolling around in there. These are stressful times and it helps to reminisce about simpler times when the slugger's albatross of a contract was the major concern of New Yorkers.
But this news came out mere hours after Trump admitted from the White House lectern that he's been imploring Vice President Mike Pence not to call affected areas like Washington and Michigan because the democratic governors of those states have failed to heal sufficient praise at the federal government's feet.
Perhaps the highest-stakes episode of Celebrity Apprentice yet and there's no way to change the channel. Here's hoping the next famous person on the president's speed-dial says listen to the doctors.