Amy Walter:

Yes, Judy, what we have seen is, the more time that the president has spent in front of the cameras, the more his approval rating numbers have dropped.

If you look at where this president was, both in opinions of Americans on his overall handling of his job as president, as well as handling the coronavirus, his numbers were starting to inch up at the end of the March.

But now they have gone on this sort of downward trajectory. This is in contrast to governors and other state and local officials who have also been on TV a lot, who are also really under the public eye every week or every day in front of TV cameras, talking to their residents. They have seen their numbers increase, their approval rating numbers increase to heights that they had not seen before.

And a big part of the difference is, as Tam pointed out, about the Trump show, is that we're in a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, and the president has chosen to meet this moment with the same sort of behavior, style, personality that he has met every moment, whether it is a crisis or not.

And we know that that behavior is incredibly polarizing. And for people who like it, who believe that this is the way that the president gets stuff done, and it's straight talk and taking it directly to the mainstream media and others who they feel are undermining him, then they they're getting something good out of these briefings.

But, for everybody else, they are seeing something that they have come to dislike over the course of this presidency, they continue to dislike.

And so, for this president, who has been sort of desperate to capture the moment, perhaps the best thing for him to do is to retreat from it. And we know he won't do that.