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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. This is the read the fine print presidency. President Donald Trump

stood in the Rose Garden Monday and said his COVID-19 strategy has saved hundreds of thousands

of lives. In every generation, he said, through every challenge and hardship and danger, America has risen to the task.

We have met the moment and we have prevailed, the president said.

It seemed like a grand pronouncement, another mission accomplished moment from an administration eager to move on from the pain of the coronavirus to reopening America and revving the engine of the stalled economy.

But when pressed on exactly what he

meant, Trump said he was simply talking about the administration's testing strategy. Prevailed on

testing is what I'm referring to, he said. Similarly, the president again said that any American

who wants to be tested for COVID-19 can be. When pressed, he stuck to that on Monday. But when

he turned the microphone over to testing czar, Admiral Brett Gauror, he added a caveat.

If you're symptomatic with a respiratory illness, you can get a test.

The White House trumpeted that the U.S. has the most tests in the world.

But, as the New York Times points out, they ignored the early failures to provide

testing that allowed the virus to spread invisibly for months. Plus, there are many countries

that have more tests per capita than the United States, including Canada, Germany, Russia,

Spain, Switzerland, and 20 other nations per the New York Times.

With two positive COVID tests in the White House, the administration trumpeted that now

masks would be required around the West Wing. But the president, he was exempt from that

rule per the Washington Post. The Post also notes, quote, in a sign of the haphazard effort

to impose more stringent safety standards inside the

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