Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and top adviser, and Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser, took the lead in writing the president's error-riddled coronavirus speech to the nation on Wednesday night.

The two aides have no public-health or medical expertise and haven't been deeply involved in the administration's coronavirus response.

Top health experts in the Trump administration weren't able to review a final draft of the speech, The Washington Post reported.

The 10-minute speech was widely viewed as a disaster; Trump made at least six false or misleading statements, and Dow Jones industrial average futures fell as he spoke.

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Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and top adviser, and Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser, took the lead in writing President Donald Trump's error-riddled address to the nation about the coronavirus outbreak.

The two aides, who have no public-health or medical expertise and haven't been deeply involved in the administration's coronavirus response, were making edits to the speech just minutes before Trump delivered it live on Wednesday night, The Washington Post reported.

And while Kushner hadn't attended any meetings of the White House task force handling the response to the pandemic, many aides who were involved in the effort weren't consulted or were ignored during the speechwriting process, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Top health experts in the Trump administration weren't able to review a final draft of the speech, The Post reported.

The 10-minute speech was widely viewed as a disaster; Trump made at least six false or misleading statements, and Dow Jones industrial average futures fell as he spoke.

Trump said his European travel ban applied to all of Europe and suggested Americans would be subject to it. In fact, the ban applies only to the Schengen region, which excludes the UK and Ireland, and it doesn't apply to US citizens and permanent residents, as well as some of their family members.

Trump also incorrectly said the travel ban would apply to cargo and trade — a statement he later corrected on Twitter.

The president also falsely claimed that US insurance companies had agreed to waive patient copayments for coronavirus treatment, when in fact industry officials agreed only to waive patient costs for testing, a more limited offer.

Kushner had pushed for the national address as a way to calm fears and illustrate that the administration was taking the crisis seriously, but other White House aides, including Kellyanne Conway, thought it was a bad idea, The Journal reported.

Trump has made several other misleading statements about the coronavirus and has repeatedly downplayed the threat the pandemic poses to the country. In late February, Trump even insisted that the number of infected Americans would be "close to zero" in "a couple days."