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I don't find it bizarre to be honest. Workplaces all over the country are saying if you are sick, stay home. I once got sent home from work for coughing. My boss said she'd rathr have one person out sick that day than ten over the net week. Trump is 73 now, I believe, and should be rightly concerned for his health.
Also, he asked to do the question over according to the transcript. Trump says he hates the media (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) but he's been in the media and around the media long enough to know that the muffled sound of a man coughing sounds bad. Everyone from George S. to the photographers in the room were happy when (I guess Mulvaney actually did leave) Coughing Man left the room
So I responded to this post before I watched the video. Now that I saw the video and heard the audio.... I am even more baffled that people think this was out of line. Mulvaney's cough was easily audible. Not a muffled cough either. Trump knew that and he probably realized that was one of the more important "bites" of the interview. The TV crew there was probaby tankful Trump suggested a do over. The reaction of Stephanopoulos certainly implies he was not upset Trump did that.
I do not know any member of the media that I worked with (localy, not nationally) that would have had a problem with that. Many may have even suggested it themselves. Others would simply come back and ask the question again later if that had been the only time Mulvaney coughed. I worked with two man crews. Sometimes it was just me. Mind you I have never interviewed or photographed interviews with the president (some presidential candidates though) but I have with two governors and two former governors of South Carolina. I would have asked for a do over myself if they or my reporter when I had one didn't.
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