Trump did not win. He did not triumph against coronavirus. USA is not ready.
The coronavirus triumphs, slowly grinding Trump's White House 'task force' into dust
- Kerry Eleveld
Daily Kos
May 5, 2020
Phase II of Donald Trump's plan to inflict maximal coronavirus carnage on the country
is commencing, and now's the perfect time to cut off public access to any tiny shreds
of reality they might glean from the White House's beleaguered coronavirus task force.
Thus, the White House plans to "wind down the operation in coming weeks,"
according to The New York Times.
(OTOH Trump is talking out of both sides of his mouth- Trump, reversing course,
says coronavirus task force will continue ‘indefinitely’ Trump tested the boundary,
and found that he could not get away with recycling all of the task force members.
He settled for telling the public that members will come and go at his whim, as is
usual.
The impetus for such a cessation is clearly twofold:
1.) the pandemic continues to ravage the nation with no end in sight
at precisely the moment when Trump is insisting on reopening the
country, an inconvenient truth the White House is surely desperate
to hide; and 2.) Trump's performances at the daily briefings proved
disastrous for his approval ratings, so halting them both relieves
him of the irresistible temptation to appear while ending the
possibility that any substantive material might make its way
to the public in his absence.
After all, if Trump can't use the briefings to feed his insatiable hunger
for attention and self-aggrandizement, why even have them?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-over-but-the-White-House-task-force-might-be
The coronavirus triumphs, slowly grinding Trump's White House 'task force' into dust
- Kerry Eleveld
Daily Kos
May 5, 2020
Phase II of Donald Trump's plan to inflict maximal coronavirus carnage on the country
is commencing, and now's the perfect time to cut off public access to any tiny shreds
of reality they might glean from the White House's beleaguered coronavirus task force.
Thus, the White House plans to "wind down the operation in coming weeks,"
according to The New York Times.
(OTOH Trump is talking out of both sides of his mouth- Trump, reversing course,
says coronavirus task force will continue ‘indefinitely’ Trump tested the boundary,
and found that he could not get away with recycling all of the task force members.
He settled for telling the public that members will come and go at his whim, as is
usual.
The impetus for such a cessation is clearly twofold:
1.) the pandemic continues to ravage the nation with no end in sight
at precisely the moment when Trump is insisting on reopening the
country, an inconvenient truth the White House is surely desperate
to hide; and 2.) Trump's performances at the daily briefings proved
disastrous for his approval ratings, so halting them both relieves
him of the irresistible temptation to appear while ending the
possibility that any substantive material might make its way
to the public in his absence.
After all, if Trump can't use the briefings to feed his insatiable hunger
for attention and self-aggrandizement, why even have them?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-over-but-the-White-House-task-force-might-be
