While the country rallies together to combat the coronavirus, the media has discovered the real enemy: President Trump.

Trump has been praised by rival politicians like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the president’s daily briefings with the media have often been combative.

He’s called a racist for referring to the deadly pandemic as a “Chinese virus” and his response to the coronavirus has been too slow and timid.

This is rich coming from a media that for years has pilloried the president for being a dictator.

Now all of a sudden he’s not moving fast enough to marshal the powers of the presidency?

Trump has been questioned for not ordering sports to halt their events, or not restricting travel in the U.S. — or even ordering a national lockdown.

Poor Dana Bash. The CNN correspondent actually said a positive word about Trump for taking the virus more seriously, and she was trashed on Twitter as a Trump stooge.

Some Democrats are seizing on the coronavirus to make political attacks on Trump, no doubt hoping the pandemic contributes to the president’s defeat in November.

And it’s true that the coronavirus likely will be the major factor as voters head to the polls. Trump will either sink or swim based on his administration’s response to the virus — it could be the end of him or it could cement his next term.

But Trump has certainly looked more presidential over the last few days, pushing through the FDA bureaucracy, closing the borders and calling on the nation’s military to help out. He has deftly remade himself into a wartime president, fighting against an invisible enemy.

Trump has been leading the briefings and sometimes taking questions for up to an hour. Not many other presidents would do that.

He doesn’t seem panicked or inept, and those are things you worry about when looking at a leader.

And Trump so far has resisted taking the media’s bait and not been too bothered by the usual barbs. He’s probably at the strongest point in his presidency.

All the media criticism is starting to sound a little hollow. It doesn’t resonate as much because people are more concerned about the pandemic than partisan attacks

In a light moment at Thursday’s briefing, Trump chided the media for sitting too close to one another, and joked that he could use it as an excuse to eject reporters he doesn’t like.

“You two,” he said pointing in the air, “should leave immediately.”

It was a joke. But no doubt it will be viewed by some in the media as a real attempt to silence criticism.

Nope, just Trump attempting some humor. And you got to give him some credit — he’s out there every day, exposing himself to any and all questions. Whether they are fair or not.