Trump himself started off with an insult to China. (“Thank you very much. I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the Chinese virus.”) The White House and Beijing are having an unseemly who-started-it fight, and the president is trying to get even with a Chinese ministry that claims American soldiers brought the disease to Wuhan during an athletic competition.

Who would you rather blame, people?

A) China.

B) Bats.

C) Jared Kushner.

No fair picking Kushner. He did help write the Oval Office speech that had everybody swooning with terror. But we are absolutely not going to call it the Jared virus.

Sometimes, it’s not clear exactly how much the president is focusing on all the bad news. His re-election arm is still sending out emails to the troops that focus on things nobody should be thinking about, like the wall, and things that are going to look very sad very soon. (“Brought unemployment numbers to a record low.”) Even his enemies do not want to think that at this point in history, the president is wandering around the Oval Office muttering about Mexico and last month’s economy.

We will not mention that one of Trump’s biggest non-virus accomplishments of the month was appointing the administration’s fourth chief of staff. One big plus is that you won’t have to learn who he is before he’s gone.

Trump and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who were having a tweet war earlier in the week, are now apparently buddies. Or at least on speaking terms. “With respect to Governor Cuomo, we had a great talk this morning,” the president said during one of the coronavirus press conferences. “We’re both doing a really good job.”

Yeah, in an ideal world Trump would have said Cuomo is doing a good job and then waited for the governor to return the compliment. But you cannot expect the crisis to strip our president of his self-regard. We will all go before the ego.

Trump does seem aware that it was a bad idea to tell reporters that he rated his coronavirus performance 10 out of 10. Instead, on Wednesday he tossed the ball to … the polls. “I see that they’re very high,” he noted modestly. “I’m beating Sleepy Joe Biden by a lot.”