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Mike 03

(16,616 posts) Wed May 6, 2020, 10:31 AM May 2020

Trump backs away from plan to shut coronavirus task force, says it will continue 'indefinitely'

Business Insider
Published: May 6, 2020 at 10:07 a.m. ET
By Robert Schroeder

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the White House’s coronavirus task force would continue its work “indefinitely,” backing away from earlier plans to wind it down.

Trump made the announcement in a series of Twitter posts. He said the group may add or subtract members and that it would focus on safety, reopening the country, and vaccines and therapeutics.

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.

Democrats criticized the decision to close the task force. “It appears the plan is, shamefully, to have no plan,” Trump’s 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton wrote on Twitter.

Short article, nothing more at link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-backs-away-from-plan-to-shut-coronavirus-task-force-says-it-will-continue-indefinitely-2020-05-06

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Trump backs away from plan to shut coronavirus task force, says it will continue 'indefinitely' (Original Post) Mike 03 May 2020 OP

Another day and another fresh hell Botany May 2020 #1

It was a replacement for his touch myself rallies... Thomas Hurt May 2020 #2

He's a very decisive leader-type greenjar_01 May 2020 #3

This exactly SledDriver May 2020 #5

Will the media dare call it a flip-flop? gratuitous May 2020 #9

Flip-flop describes it exactly. The term needs to come back in style. nt crickets May 2020 #14

Yes! Flip-Flopper. They were all over Kerry for one comment. Walleye May 2020 #15

I wonder how much Hillary's comment played into that SledDriver May 2020 #4

What did she say? Kingofalldems May 2020 #8

"It appears the plan is to have no plan" JHB May 2020 #12

Waffler-in-Chief. Baitball Blogger May 2020 #6

That is subject to change without notice. Progressive dog May 2020 #7

Has not one iota of plan.. HipChick May 2020 #10

And just do nothing. nt leftyladyfrommo May 2020 #11

Exactly. shockey80 May 2020 #16

Keeping it intact will allow trump to refuse to allow Fauci to testify cry baby May 2020 #13

On second thought.... kentuck May 2020 #17

So Jared is still making money, hmm? nt crickets May 2020 #18

K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #19

Botany

(70,626 posts)

1. Another day and another fresh hell

Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:41 AM

May 2020

That was quick.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

2. It was a replacement for his touch myself rallies...

Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:42 AM

May 2020

Now that he has decided to not have a plan, but instead cover up the deaths and re open he can go back to his rallies and feed his pathology.

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)

3. He's a very decisive leader-type

Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:42 AM

May 2020

Flailing is the only word for this nonsense. You wouldn't accept this kind of day-to-day randomness from an assistant manager at the Best Buy.

Ridiculous.

SledDriver

(2,059 posts)

5. This exactly

Reply to greenjar_01 (Reply #3)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:46 AM

May 2020

“Flailing” is the perfect way to describe his style of presidenting.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

9. Will the media dare call it a flip-flop?

Reply to greenjar_01 (Reply #3)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:58 AM

May 2020

I'm thinking that some of them might. There have been signs recently of a nascent backbone forming in the media outlets.

crickets

(25,988 posts)

14. Flip-flop describes it exactly. The term needs to come back in style. nt

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #9)

Wed May 6, 2020, 12:12 PM

May 2020

Walleye

(31,106 posts)

15. Yes! Flip-Flopper. They were all over Kerry for one comment.

Reply to crickets (Reply #14)

Wed May 6, 2020, 12:21 PM

May 2020

SledDriver

(2,059 posts)

4. I wonder how much Hillary's comment played into that

Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:44 AM

May 2020

Kingofalldems

(38,498 posts)

8. What did she say?

Reply to SledDriver (Reply #4)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:55 AM

May 2020

JHB

(37,163 posts)

12. "It appears the plan is to have no plan"

Reply to Kingofalldems (Reply #8)

Wed May 6, 2020, 11:34 AM

May 2020

See thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213397142

Baitball Blogger

(46,774 posts)

6. Waffler-in-Chief.

Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2020, 10:54 AM

May 2020

I guess Republicans do want a leader who "waffles".

But that deserves analysis:

Democrats change their minds after looking at facts as they come in.

Republicans change their minds after they find public resistance to their uninformed gut decision or attempt at political overreach gets panned by the public.