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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,335 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 08:49 PM May 2020

Trump plots economic pivot at Camp David

President Donald Trump has never viewed Camp David with the same reverence as his own properties.

But after 34 days confined to the West Wing, the Maryland retreat Trump once called “rustic” suddenly seems like a stellar weekend getaway.

Over nearly two days, Trump is expected to meet with his chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top advisers like Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to plan for his televised coronavirus town hall at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday night and weigh various tax policy and regulatory proposals to boost the economy, according to interviews with half a dozen senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House. It’s all part of the White House’s broader strategy of shifting its coronavirus message to an economic one — a move the president’s political advisers believe plays more to his strengths as a former real estate developer.

“States that wait until June to reopen are wiping out all of the economic gains they would have made in 2020,” said Stephen Moore, an informal economic adviser to the Trump administration dating back to the 2016 campaign. “If I were the president, I would be talking a lot more about that — that these states are doing severe damage to societies and citizens if they keep businesses without revenue and people without paychecks for another month.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-plots-economic-pivot-at-camp-david/ar-BB13w01o?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

Quite a circle jerk.

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Trump plots economic pivot at Camp David (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Well, what's the point if they're dead? TreasonousBastard May 2020 #1
The gains... Newest Reality May 2020 #2
Nothing will help the criminally responsible monster malaise May 2020 #3
I with you on that, malaise! Newest Reality May 2020 #10
Why does he need to waste more taxpayer money to see those he already sees every day? Rhiannon12866 May 2020 #4
Arbeit Macht Frei tirebiter May 2020 #5
I went to Facebook jail for posting this very thing. CanonRay May 2020 #12
re-election. nothing else. spanone May 2020 #6
Please slam the states protecting their residents...PLEASE. roamer65 May 2020 #7
Odds are he's not even there. C_U_L8R May 2020 #8
Preview of the conference.... Wounded Bear May 2020 #9
Four years ago he did Wellstone ruled May 2020 #11
Camp David is as close to mountain survival camp Trump will ever get Under The Radar May 2020 #13
A meeting Faux pas May 2020 #14
Senseless idiocracy EndlessWire May 2020 #15

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. The gains...
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:01 PM
May 2020

The gains where the results of the recovery during Obama's terms.

Maybe Trump forgets that he has been riding that wave all along and "taking responsibility" for it. Now, he owns this one and won't take it. That does not help him.

Pivot? I laugh out loud. This economic situation is global and local and it is rather inane to use the term pivot as if you could have turned the Titanic 180-degrees immediately. This is still on the way down. Way down. Maybe you could mitigate it a little, but with that kind of wishful voodoo thinking, (just close your eyes and click your heals Dorothy) you get nothing or maybe a worse crash.

We are in for some very hard years, not months. Maybe that will help us to change this Neo-Liberal Wealthy fest around for the people. We should be considering that while the dotard plays on Fantasy Island.

malaise

(269,237 posts)
3. Nothing will help the criminally responsible monster
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:05 PM
May 2020

He's fucking history - just wait for 70,000 dead people by mid-week and 100,000 by the end of the month.

Fuck him and the horse he rode in.

Rhiannon12866

(206,397 posts)
4. Why does he need to waste more taxpayer money to see those he already sees every day?
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:10 PM
May 2020

Everywhere on my area there are signs saying "Stay Home and Stay Safe."

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
7. Please slam the states protecting their residents...PLEASE.
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:16 PM
May 2020

That will be electoral manna from heaven.

It will ENSURE your electoral demise, COVID-45.

C_U_L8R

(45,027 posts)
8. Odds are he's not even there.
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:17 PM
May 2020

Probably off golfing somewhere with this clearly bogus cover story. Trump work? On a weekend? Ridiculous.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
11. Four years ago he did
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:35 PM
May 2020

his big splash here in Vegas,so right on cue. And my guess is,all the networks will suck up to him and give him free air play.

EndlessWire

(6,573 posts)
15. Senseless idiocracy
Sun May 3, 2020, 11:35 AM
May 2020

All the people asked for were masks, vents, and gowns. Maybe a few bucks for the unemployed. And, research into treatments and preventive medicine.

Do they do that? No. They're not plotting at Camp David on how to avoid the Big Depression. After all, they don't have to worry. They're probably plotting their election strategy.

They could have produced masks for everyone. More for the hospitals. Everything Trump touches dies. Now, our economy is dying. And, instead of producing and making available the items that people need to have to feel safe, they spend their time threatening Governors, trying to muscle the people back to work, and encouraging unsafe practices for a situation that will be long term, not short term.

They could have invented new programs, schedules, and ways of doing things where we could have bought into them. Provide even more stimulus money to have businesses call the workers back, with plenty of incentives to get back to normal: proper protection, different schedules (maybe two on, two off??) new training programs, ways to earn federal bonus money...But all they can think of is how to scrape money off the government for themselves.

Jared Kushner? Ivanka? These people are NOT the ones I want to hear are plotting our rescue. They are too stupid. The Trump Stupid Crime Family. Gah...

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