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Trump has formed a task force to look at reopening parts of the American economy amid the coronavirus outbreak. But he also said this week that he will rely very heavily on medical experts, and he declined to publicly set a new target date, after his previous target of Easter didnt pan out. I cant tell you in terms of the date, Trump said Wednesday.
That wasnt sufficient for a reporter from Newsmax, though, who pressed him just 10 minutes later on whether he might reopen the economy by April 30 or May 1.
Trump again demurred on setting a date, saying, I dont want to do that.
I was criticized for that, so I dont like giving dates.
Apparently, though, thats exactly what hes doing privately. And as the question from the conservative outlet showed, hes still getting plenty of pressure on this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/10/who-is-telling-trump-reopen-economy/
So the dumbest of the dumb are guiding him.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and the last one that talked to the dummy
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)n/t
ornotna
(10,806 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)RockRaven
(14,990 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)The stock market is a smoke screen. They need us.
bdamomma
(63,919 posts)advisors at Fox noise.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,612 posts)but he wants to see maximum chaos/upheaval in the U.S.A.: governmental, economic, pandemic, etc.
Hugin
(33,191 posts)Which inevitably will be used for everything from voter ID to loan approvals in the future.
I can almost give you the exact demographics of who will carry the cards... Male, old, 1%, white, christian, straight, 2nd amendment freak, racist, sexist, etc. Y'know, your card carrying Republican. Only with a real card.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)it back until docs say it's OK.
Don't really have a problem with wanting to "reopen" as soon as medically possible or planning for that eventuality. At this point, not matter what he does, what happens, etc., he's proven himself to be incompetent in a crisis, along with all the crud he did before.
underpants
(182,872 posts)The CoC is behind him not activating the DPA. They don't want the government in their businesses. Same here I'd bet.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)get completely out of control and the effect on the economy could get even worse? Dead people don't work, don't shop, don't spend money on travel, dining or entertainment, don't pay rent or mortgages, student loans, car payments, credit card bills, etc.
This is a typical republican mentality. They are always so short-sighted. They can never see past three months down the road. Which is why they always fuck up the economy whenever they are in power.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)I'll believe this indictment stuff when I see it.
Our country does not indict leaders after they've left office. Let me know when Cheney, Rove, Shrub all get in trouble for their deeds.
msongs
(67,438 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)doing a job on the economy & the longer it's idle the worse the future looks.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)nakocal
(552 posts)Drs. Mengele and Jekyl
crickets
(25,982 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)his Pal that runs Sands Corp as well as Westgate.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)shockey80
(4,379 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)All he had going into 2020 was the stock market & low UE.
Now, he has neither. He is desperate to get back his only sales pitch to the other 66.6%
Hotler
(11,444 posts)The working people have been feeling the pain for the last thirty or so years. I say when the orange one opens up the country we keep the spending shut off or, to a very minimum. Let the repugs keep the economy afloat through the election. Give the orange one a ultimatum, resign and we start spending or, suck it until the election.
Shermann
(7,428 posts)Which is just a transparent attempt to start watering down Fauci's role.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)He thinks a high Dow is the key to his re-election. He sees the Dow as his ratings. He wants the Dow higher so that he can continue to brag about his great economy.
-Laelth
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)He didnt close the economy, how is he supposed to open it?
Im sure he has some sway with a few republican governors, but thats pretty much it.
Hugin
(33,191 posts)Flattening the curve extends the timeline considerably and if you go back to 'normal' at any point during the flattened curve you risk a spike nearly as severe as if you'd never attempted the flattening. If he thinks people are pissed off now, just wait for the reaction to seeing they did everything they've done for nothing because a bunch of cultists had to worship their High Dow.
lark
(23,154 posts)Those are the voices in his head telling him to open it up with no testing and let us die for their profit.