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RandySF

(57,588 posts)
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 11:17 PM Apr 2020

Trump's abrupt reversal on Georgia's reopening plan highlights growing tensions with Kemp

President Trump was for reopening the state of Georgia before he was against it.

After giving Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) the green light to begin lifting his state’s coronavirus restrictions, Trump blindsided him by publicly reversing course and announcing Wednesday that he “strongly” disagreed with the move to allow certain businesses to begin opening in the state.

The president’s rapid about-face undermined a member of his party and added to the sense of confusion about how states should begin restarting economic activity in the middle of a deadly pandemic.

It also underscored underlying tension between the president and Kemp, who soared to the governorship on a pro-Trump platform and pivotal endorsement but has since resisted the president’s suggestions on some of his most significant decisions as governorKemp, who rejected Trump’s call to reverse course on his state’s reopening this week, has drawn increasingly sharp public rebukes from a president who has vacillated throughout the crisis between urging for a cautious public health response and advocating for a swift restart of economic activity across the country.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-kemp-georgia-coronavirus-reopen/2020/04/24/116f6ebe-863f-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

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Trump's abrupt reversal on Georgia's reopening plan highlights growing tensions with Kemp (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2020 OP
It probably occurred to His Lardship (belatedly) that if Kemp opens FL, The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #1
Kemp is Gov of GA. brer cat Apr 2020 #3
Right, I was thinking of the other guy, DeSatan. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #4
It's de-lightful, it's de-licious, it's de-satan... 🎶 sprinkleeninow Apr 2020 #9
I'm wore out. Thot you wrote ('bloatedly').... 😴 sprinkleeninow Apr 2020 #8
Those two are the meeting of the mindless liberal N proud Apr 2020 #2
I think Trump wants to make sure he does not get blamed if this blows up tulipsandroses Apr 2020 #5
Under the bus, for you OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2020 #6
another diversion tirebiter Apr 2020 #7
With "KEMP" or with *every* f-king *body* in the universe?!1 UTUSN Apr 2020 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,267 posts)
1. It probably occurred to His Lardship (belatedly) that if Kemp opens FL,
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 11:24 PM
Apr 2020

and people at Mierda Loco get the virus, he's kind of screwed.

tulipsandroses

(5,090 posts)
5. I think Trump wants to make sure he does not get blamed if this blows up
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 11:34 PM
Apr 2020

in Kemp's face - opening up hair salons, barber shops, tattoo shops -You can't practice social distancing in those settings. No matter how careful they think they are, I think its only a matter of time that Georgia's numbers start going up because of Kemp's stupidity. Trump is already taking a beating for his Coronavirus response. He's trying to distance himself from Kemp so that Kemp can't say oh I was following the president's orders.

OAITW r.2.0

(23,810 posts)
6. Under the bus, for you
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 11:50 PM
Apr 2020

Should never have trusted this prick. You fucked yourself when you took Trump's phonecalls.

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