Calls coronavirus 'worse than Pearl Harbor,' says task force will continue

[struggle4progress]

Published: May 6, 2020 at 4:13 p.m. ET
By Robert Schroeder

... Trump on Wednesday called the coronavirus pandemic worse than the attacks on Pearl Harbor .. and backed away from an earlier plan confirmed as recently as Tuesday by Vice President Mike Pence to wind down the administration’s task force ...

Visiting Arizona on Tuesday, Trump said “we will have something in a different form” in place of the task force. He said “we can’t keep our country closed for the next five years” when asked why the administration was phasing it out.

At a Wednesday Oval Office event celebrating National Nurses Day, Trump said, “I thought we could wind it down sooner.”

“But I had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yesterday when I started talking about winding down,” he said, according to a White House pool report. “It is appreciated by the public” ...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-backs-away-from-plan-to-shut-coronavirus-task-force-says-it-will-continue-indefinitely-2020-05-06

[Turbineguy]

1. Yeah Pearl Harbor was nice.

Until the Germans attacked it.

[struggle4progress]

2. He learns something new every day! Today he learned 72000 is bigger than 2500!

[unblock]

3. Wrong end of that war. Try worse than Nagasaki

[Cha]

4. Idiot 45IQ.. he's going to find out a few more

things before he's over.

[Zambero]

5. Yes, quite correct

Unlike Pearl Harbor, this time the enemy is from within.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I like the part about "I had no idea that the Task Force was so popular . . . . . "

[raccoon]

7. Of course he had no idea, he's a Dotard. THE Dotard. Nt

[ProfessorGAC]

9. IT Said "Popular"

Not "critical". Not " important". Not "critically important".
"Popular"!

[GoCubsGo]

11. Shocked, but not shocked when I heard that.

That's what this all boils down to for that ignorant motherfucker. Popularity and ratings. MeConnell and the other officials who are allowing this shit to continue all need to be tried and convicted of treason. Jeezus.

[oasis]

8. Racist dog whistle. Trump knew damn well what he was saying. nt

[tanyev]

10. He didn't even know what Pearl Harbor was in 2017.

Last edited Thu May 7, 2020, 08:40 AM - Edit history (1)

President Donald Trump did not appear to understand the significance of the iconic Pearl Harbor memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, during a private tour of the USS Arizona Memorial, according to a new book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters from the Washington Post.

According to the Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, Trump asked his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, "Hey, John, what's this all about? What's this a tour of?"

"He was at times dangerously uninformed," a former senior White House official said, according to The Post.

Trump appeared not to grasp that this was a hallowed tribute to the more than 2,400 US service members and civilians who died in the 1941 assault, a devastating surprise attack that launched America into World War II. In November 2017, Trump visited the site for the first time and claimed he "read about, spoken about, heard about, studied [sic]."

"And that is going to be very exciting for me," Trump added at the time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pearl-harbor-memorial-tour-john-kelly-stable-genius-2020-1