Trump’s big show of opening the US economy will hide the real story
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump’s big show of opening the US economy will hide the real story

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump’s make America open again campaign will deliver exactly what he wants Thursday – a victory lap over the coronavirus pandemic that leaves the life and death decisions to others. “We’re going to be announcing guidelines, and we’ll be talking about various states, and it’s very exciting,” Trump said in another rambunctious Rose Garden news conference Wednesday. “Tomorrow is going to be a very big day … We will have some openings that will … exceed our expectations, and they will be safe.” The political context of Trump’s remarks is important because it backs up reporting, including by CNN, that nothing will deflect the President from his desire to open up the country on May 1 and that he is working from personal motivations rather than solid data. Trump’s insistence that it’s time to get moving again is helping fuel a campaign on conservative media that claims a suppressed infection curve shows government medical experts and Democratic governors overreacted to the pandemic and are infringing on the basic rights of American “patriots” with shutdowns.

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Analysis: Trump’s push to reopen the US economy backfires
4 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: Trump’s push to reopen the US economy backfires

Al Jazeera  

Behind Biden in public opinion polls, Trump is in a ‘precarious’ political position as 2020 re-election campaign begins. After low turnout at a much-hyped Trump rally in Oklahoma, Karl Rove, the Republican mastermind behind former President George W Bush’s winning campaigns, told the television outlet Fox News that the president needed to hit the “reset” button on his campaign. “Trump …

Trump’s pitch to voters: Trust me, economy will soar in 2021
4 years, 7 months ago

Trump’s pitch to voters: Trust me, economy will soar in 2021

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has a new pitch to voters for this fall: Trust me. “It’s a transition to greatness,” Trump says over and over, predicting a burgeoning economy come the fall. “You’re going to see some great numbers in the fourth quarter, and you’re going to end up doing a great year next year.” His chief economic adviser, …

Reopening the economy is a massive experiment
4 years, 7 months ago

Reopening the economy is a massive experiment

CNN  

New York CNN Business — As the United States begins to reopen its economy, debates rage world-wide about how to balance economic hardship with a public health hazard. With no easy answers to the dilemma, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser for Allianz, says the focus needs to be on learning from the “massive experiment.” “The reality is that we are …

Trump’s push to reopen comes as hopes for a quick recovery fades
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump’s push to reopen comes as hopes for a quick recovery fades

CNN  

Washington CNN — To staffers inside the White House, it was clear by mid-April the “big bang” economic revival once predicted by President Donald Trump wasn’t in the cards. “They aren’t hearing it,” said one person with direct knowledge of internal White House discussions who noted those closest to the President, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and top economic adviser …

Trump will have to face the price of reopening the US economy: tens of thousands of American lives
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump will have to face the price of reopening the US economy: tens of thousands of American lives

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump now knows the price of the haunting bargain required to reopen the country – tens of thousands more lives in a pandemic that is getting worse not better. But in an interview published in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Post, Trump said Americans were ready come out of isolation and get back to normal …

Trump pushes economy reopening, says coronavirus could kill 100,000
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump pushes economy reopening, says coronavirus could kill 100,000

Live Mint  

Pushing to reopen the economy, President Donald Trump insists that states can gradually lift lockdowns and still protect people from the coronavirus pandemic, even as he's also suggesting US deaths could reach 100,000. “Look, we’re going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000 people,” Trump said. This should have been stopped in China.” But he struck a note of …

State openings bring risks, huge stakes for America and its President
4 years, 8 months ago

State openings bring risks, huge stakes for America and its President

CNN  

CNN — America is stirring, but it’s every state for itself. Still, Frieden cautioned that the longer fight against the pandemic, which he described as the worst public health threat in 100 years, is “just beginning.” A pandemic respects no state borders, and there is a real chance that states taking a risk by opening could eventually make the situation …

Coronavirus | President Donald Trump gives Governors options on how to reopen the economy
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | President Donald Trump gives Governors options on how to reopen the economy

The Hindu  

President Donald Trump has given governors a road map for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. Also | Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus - WHO “We’re starting our life again,” …

Trump takes a victory lap for a crisis that isn’t over yet
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump takes a victory lap for a crisis that isn’t over yet

CNN  

Washington CNN — He alone can’t fix it. “If you look at Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota – that’s a lot different than New York, it’s a lot different than New Jersey,” Trump said. Indeed, as the President told state governors on a call on Thursday afternoon “you call your own shots.” Trump effectively ceded the critical task of testing to …

In the post-pandemic world, the U.S. economy could be totally different
4 years, 8 months ago

In the post-pandemic world, the U.S. economy could be totally different

LA Times  

When the U.S. economy reopens, whether sooner or later, chances are it won’t look the same as it did only a few months ago before the coronavirus outbreak. “We are going to be suspicious about things, whether people we are meeting have the virus and will the economy fall back down again.” More stimulus from Washington, especially large-scale spending to …

Governors will ease coronavirus restrictions under White House plan
4 years, 8 months ago

Governors will ease coronavirus restrictions under White House plan

LA Times  

Claiming that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak has passed, President Trump outlined a broad road map Thursday for each state to begin phasing out restrictions that have forced tens of millions of Americans to stay home for weeks, devastating the nation’s economy. “Some states will be able to open up sooner than others.” The guidance was released on a …

Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don’t get to decide when the economy restarts
4 years, 8 months ago

Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don’t get to decide when the economy restarts

LA Times  

Columnist Holman Jenkins offered an analogy in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend that captures the conundrum created by the U.S. response to COVID-19. That’s why it’s so disturbing to hear President Trump assert, as he did again Monday, that he has the power to “open up the states,” presumably by lifting the restrictions on movement and commerce. “When …

Virus may dash Trump’s plan for a ‘big bang’ economic opening
4 years, 8 months ago

Virus may dash Trump’s plan for a ‘big bang’ economic opening

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump almost certainly won’t get his “big bang” reopening of the frozen economy. Fauci appeared to incur Trump’s ire on “State of the Union” Sunday morning when he admitted that there had been “a lot of pushback” to calls inside the administration for earlier social distancing. Hours later, Trump retweeted a user who said it was …

Trump hoping to see US economy reopened by Easter amid virus
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump hoping to see US economy reopened by Easter amid virus

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is hoping the United States will be reopened by Easter as he weighs how to relax nationwide social-distancing guidelines to put some workers back on the job during the coronavirus outbreak. “You’ll have packed churches all over our country.” And as scientists warned the worst is yet to come — with hospital systems …

Trump Sets Easter Goal For Reopening American Economy
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump Sets Easter Goal For Reopening American Economy

NPR  

Trump Sets Easter Goal For Reopening American Economy Enlarge this image toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images Updated at 7:35 p.m. In the Fox News TV special earlier Tuesday, Trump said he "would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter." That's April 12, within the timeline of "weeks" that Trump said …

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