That headline was in a lengthy piece in today's Washington Post. But the answer seems quite simple. Trump knows that he has failed up to this point, and that it is unlikely, even if he were to apply himself the problem, that he could turn it around. So if he does engage now, his efforts would almost certainly be seen as having failed. And that he cannot tolerate.
By the same token, his reluctance to engage directly in the spring, choosing rather to claim it was a States' problem, was likely for much the same reason: he knew he really wasn't guaranteed a win and so he didn't want to play. And while in his prior jobs that strategy might have worked, this a field of play he can't simply walk away from. It's really not just someone else's problem.
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