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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman in moments of crisis, either real or self-inflicted. President Donald Trump has always papered over his relative political and experience with unusual behavior that fired the imagination of his supporters and left his opponents so

gobsmacked they struggled to find words to meet the moment. He tiptoed into North Korea with its

madman leader in search of a nuclear deal, televised negotiations with congressional leaders,

levied costly tariffs on allies to try to change their behavior and stepped in to try to broker

peace between warring factions.

But now, with the nation in the middle of the most profound crisis in a century,

Trump finds himself without the efficacy of his typical tools of diversion and showmanship,

and is at the mercy of a virus he can't control, governors who have their own power,

a constitution that has final say, a public relations

campaign that is unusually flat, and a public that will ultimately decide whether the

stagnant economy will start to regain steam.

For a president who likes to assert power and project control, it seems to be an unsettling set of

circumstances that has left him knocked back, uneven, and searching for his bearings.

He has said it's governors that are in charge of their states, but on Monday asserted it as he who has

finals say. Of course, the Constitution indicates otherwise. Experts say a vaccine is roughly

11 months away from being widely available,

so in reality, it will ultimately be the public that decides whether it feels safe enough to

begin living their lives again. Even the things that the president usually can control seem to be

spiraling away from him. His news conferences have been panned by Republicans, mocked by cable

networks, and dismissed by

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