Update: Multiple White House officials tell NBC News this morning that there may NOT be a task force

[demmiblue]

Update: Multiple White House officials tell NBC News this morning that there may NOT be a task force briefing today and that Trump may instead open to the press his 4PM Cabinet Room event with industry executives. (The current WH strategy, I’m told, is to show Trump “at work.”)

Link to tweet

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Trump and the WH are afraid that the media won't let go of Trump promoting

disinfectant and light as cures for CV. Add to that Trump's idea of "sarcasm." And they know they can't adequately, realistically respond.

Really painted into a corner.

[Voltaire2]

2. "show trump at work"

ah we've entered the "Mao swims the yangtse" stage of his regime.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. All 50 minutes of him at work, hard at work basking in ass-kissing. . . . nt

[sop]

11. Shirtless on a white horse would be more appropriate.

[DBoon]

18. poor horse

nt

[Wounded Bear]

24. Trump would need a Clydesdale...nt

[TheBlackAdder]

26. Already been done.

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[2naSalit]

30. Or the "putin rides a pony" stage.

[dawg day]

3. It's all about show...

Showing him at work. Showing him involved. But he is so intractable narcissistic. He's going to show as self obsessed and hostile.

[Claustrum]

14. I doubt it will be hostile

He is having one of those table full of people and each one speak up with their praise of Trump and how great he is session. He will be smug. It is a show for "how hard he is at work" and "everyone is singing him praises". There won't be a single question that's asking the truth (against him).

[gibraltar72]

5. It was never control the disease. It was control the message.

Once that was lost he's gotta move on.

[Freethinker65]

6. So a pass the mike around the table to Praise Trump event?

Why must any of these media manipulation propaganda events be televised live? Show up and if anything important comes out of them, report it.
Biden/Democrats need to demand time to respond.
Trump knows free media has value, at a minimum it gives Trump face time and a national audience and a way to manipulate the day's media narrative. If Trump could control himself and stay on script it would be even more to Trump's advantage.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. What ya wanna bet?

That all officials at the table pass the mic around praising him for how hard he works.

There will be no talk of disinfecting.

[SummerSnow]

7. So, if he cannot be apart of the task force briefing , it gets cancelled. Lol

His narcissism knows no bounds

[dalton99a]

8. Trump at work in the Cabinet Room

[kentuck]

21. Requirement to work in the White House

don't show any independent thought.

[central scrutinizer]

9. McEnemy is writing butt-kissing statements

For distribution around the table. Need a bingo card but who could stomach watching it long enough to win.

[Dream Girl]

20. I got "strong decisive leadership" "bold" and "tireless"

[Takket]

12. Why not give media access to the full day?

Let’s see him hard at work first thing in the morning!

[neeksgeek]

13. This should be called the Potemkin Administration nt

[underpants]

15. Um, it's not the Where or the What it's the WHO that's the problem

Shut. Up. for your own stupid good.

Let Pence do the task force briefings. Yeah no one will watch which Trump can count as a win.

[Solomon]

16. Lol. He'll just wind up doing the same thing: asking silly questions and

coming up with stupid ideas. He can't help himself. Every thought he has he thinks "nobody's ever thought of that before".

[Botany]

17. Trump, "I am the hardest working President in history."

Link to tweet

It is all kabuki.

[Talitha]

27. Hardest working president, huh? What a delusional pig.

Get some healthy vegetables and fruit into your system
and you won't have to 'work' so hard.

[kentuck]

19. Show him at work, lecturing the experts?

Showing that he is "in charge"?

[demmiblue]

22. ".@PressSec says WH... but says they "may have a new look to them."

.@PressSec says WH "not tracking" a press briefing today for Pres Trump, but reporters will be allowed to cover his meeting at 4pm/ET with industry executives. She says the president will take part in briefings during the week, but says they "may have a new look to them."

Link to tweet

[ecstatic]

23. It's sad that it took trump (or his handlers) pulling the plug

to end the daily shitshows / rallies (as opposed to news organizations boycotting).

So what now? Will the WH press corps show up to the fake roundtable "work" sessions, which we already know will consist of endless rethugs kissing trump's ass?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. Industry leaders, huh?

They’ll probably discuss how businesses all need to reopen

[ok_cpu]

28. Thank God they remain diligently focused....on messaging. n/t

[crickets]

29. Different room, same stupid clown act. nt

[malaise]

31. Too fucking late

Don the criminally negligent Con is history