Trump's Coronavirus Task Force Increasingly Ignores Trump
Trumps Coronavirus Task Force Increasingly Ignores Trump
The president encouraged protests against his own administrations public health policies. And his team greeted it with a collective shoulder shrug.
Asawin Suebsaeng
Erin Banco
Sam Stein
Published Apr. 20, 2020 9:06PM ET
As the country enters its second month of a social lockdown and shuttered economy, the White Houses coronavirus response has diverged into two primary camps: one that defends whatever the president has chosen to care about or watch on the TV, and another that actively works to ignore and paper over those excesses.
The most recent, glaring example of that wild discrepancy came over the weekend, when Trump began encouraging protests against stay at home orders overseen by Democratic governors in several states. The presidents messaging took on the language of uprising, calling on these states to be LIBERATE[D], with some of his loudest allies and friendly media personalities immediately joining the chorus.
But within Trumps coronavirus task force, the latest Twitter outburst is being treated as simply another speed bump. Trumps own aides and officials are aware that the presidents missives are at odds with the recommendations embraced by his top public-health experts. But rather than correct the record or even push back internally, they have tried to proceed as if the president didnt just do what he had so clearly done.
It is a pain in the ass sometimes, for sure, said a senior official working with the task force. There isn't much more [some of us] can do in that, except continue making sound policy recommendations and hope they sink in. Sometimes the president backs off on some things, sometimes he doesn't. It's his call.
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