Trump is going to open up the country early and screw this up. Mark my word!

[Quixote1818]

He is NOT a logical, scientific believing person. Deep down we all know he is going to fuck this up. He has NO impulse control as we see with his Twitter addiction. He is out of his mind and he will pull the plug early. This will take right back off, we won't have enough testing or anything prepared and it will be a full blown clusterfuck AGAIN!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He can't make the governors do it.

And the smart governors won't.

[Quixote1818]

3. Agree, but if 1/3 of the people in the country listen to him they will be out and about spreading it

around. Many Republican Gov. are already eager to pull the plug.

[bluestarone]

7. Hell 1/3 of the people are running around already i bet.

Just hope the Democratic Governors,tell him 2 fuck off!

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Then those 1/3 are likely from Red States, and

they should be refused entry into Blue States.

[maryellen99]

6. But most likely he's going to threaten to end all federal funding nt

[BGBD]

29. call his bluff

It won't happen.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Thank you for making this about smart, not party.

Ohio's red governor has made it very clear that the opening will be slow, and governed by science (no matter how loud the protestors outside the statehouse get).

[Hortensis]

17. This. He didn't "close" ANYTHING, NOTHING, and he can't open anything.

He's all hot air posturing at being in charge instead of governors and local officials.

[jimfields33]

2. I think it will be people who dictate

Everything in May in our county has been cancelled. Can we really make it to June doing this? I’m bored as it is.

[liberalmuse]

13. You're bored?

You're lucky. Some people are fighting for their lives right now. Others have lost their loved ones. At least we are flattening the curve right now, as boring as that might seem saving lives.

If we open up the country too soon, our hospitals will be inundated and we'll have a 2nd wave and a spike of deaths. It looks like Trump is willing to let people die because he's terrified a poor economy will affect his numbers. I'm not, and neither are the majority of Americans.

[jimfields33]

16. I'm sure that is true. I'm still bored.

When my mom died, people still went along on their business.

[SheltieLover]

4. Of course he will try his best to

After all, it seems apparent that his agenda is to create as much chaos and cause as much suffering, death, & destruction as he can for putin.

[notdarkyet]

30. Probably what him and Putin are talking about. Giving the us to Putin.

[bdamomma]

5. the decision

is up to the states governors and not him, didn't he say he doesn't take responsibility.

[Ms. Toad]

8. He has no power.

You are correct that he will make some stupid pronouncement, which the governors will ignore - just as they ignored his stupid Easter announcement.

[Laelth]

28. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[Bengus81]

10. Now talking May--a whopping 20 days from now

Go ahead Trump and spew that BS,everyone except his hard core knuckle draggers will ignore him.

[CanonRay]

11. I think 20 days from now is wildly optimistic

add 30 more and you're in the ballpark

[Bengus81]

22. What will change in 30 days? There is no vaccine....

Would people go to a ball game with 20 thousand others at the end of May? I wouldn't. Another fact for FatNixon and DeSantis,the group with the 28% of all CV in Kansas are in the 20-44 range. So much CV ignoring young really healthy people.

[SlogginThroughIt]

23. 20+30 isn't 50?

[Bengus81]

25. Well....I meant another 30 days beyond Trumps ridiculous "opening day" of May 1

Everyone knows that the idiot running this dog and pony show want's it all open May 1. So another 30 days would be around memorial day,again what will have changed by then?

[LizBeth]

12. He won't do it because it will be a fail. He Can't make it happen. I am not going out.

And the ones that will follow Trump opening up the nation are already doing it and they are and will continue to pay for their poor decision.

[tblue37]

14. He doesn't have control of that. However, his fans, especially in right-wing areas, will follow his

lead and ignore state and local directives, and right-wing governors will also follow his lead.

[sop]

15. Trump considering creating a "working group focused on reviving the U.S. economy." (Bloomberg)

The panel will reportedly include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, senior adviser and daughter Ivanka, director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow and various private-sector representatives.

With a rogues' gallery of corruption, greed and stupidity like this, can there be any doubt they will sell out the country's health and welfare to the highest bidder?

[Texaswitchy]

21. Damn.

It will.be to ok for sick people to go to.work.

Under certain rules.

[rockfordfile]

18. What? It's already screwed up

[Texaswitchy]

20. He will try blackmail.

Block PPE'S.

[Mc Mike]

24. He likes chaos. Chaos is his friend. He feels that he succeeds more

in chaotic situations he creates.

[CrispyQ]

26. Even Barr is on the "open the economy" wagon.

WTF? Since when does the DOJ weigh in on business matters?

[Orrex]

27. He seems determined to create a "remove him at any cost" moment

I can think of 25th ways to handle this.

[notdarkyet]

31. We need to right now.

[BigMin28]

32. Abbott here in Texas

Is working on a plan to open things back up. I wouldn't be surprised if we are the first state to try to do it. The results won't be good. But as usual, it's profits over people. By the way, Texas has only tested .5% of its population. Have to keep the numbers low, don't you know.

[Windy City Charlie]

33. Also

Also, mark my words, we're not too many weeks away from Trump trotting out phony numbers to try and claim more people are dying from the economic hardships of this than from the virus itself.

[SummerSnow]

34. Of course he is, then he'll just blame the governors

[Baclava]

35. "15 people, soon to be 0" , US passes 500,000 cases today, nice call asshole