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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 10:41 PM Apr 2020

Trump's Coronavirus Task Force Increasingly Ignores Trump

Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force Increasingly Ignores Trump

The president encouraged protests against his own administration’s 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 House’s 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 president’s 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 Trump’s coronavirus task force, the latest Twitter outburst is being treated as simply another speed bump. Trump’s own aides and officials are aware that the president’s 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 didn’t 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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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-coronavirus-task-force-increasingly-ignores-trump

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Trump's Coronavirus Task Force Increasingly Ignores Trump (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2020 OP
Build a fake "Coronavirus Control Center" Blue Owl Apr 2020 #1
Maybe they can do that with the nuclear codes, too. murielm99 Apr 2020 #2
Wow, great idea! Then Kellyskank Spinway and that new fake blonde press secretary can act as..... machoneman Apr 2020 #3

Blue Owl

(49,918 posts)
1. Build a fake "Coronavirus Control Center"
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 12:56 AM
Apr 2020

with big Fisher-Price size knobs and dials connected to nothing, and let Donnie play in it every day until nap time...

machoneman

(3,952 posts)
3. Wow, great idea! Then Kellyskank Spinway and that new fake blonde press secretary can act as.....
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 10:00 AM
Apr 2020

showgirl curtain openers, later awarding fake prizes to fake audience members. Brilliant idea!

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