Report Claims Trump Only Abandoned Plan To Reopen By Easter When Aides Started Showing Him Dismal Polling Numbers

Surprise, surprise. Donald Trump only wants to serve himself.


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After a boatload of backlash from the American public as well as Republicans and Democrats alike, Donald Trump finally rolled back his plan to reopen the country and “pack” the churches by Easter Sunday despite the massive outbreak of coronavirus in the country that we still have yet to get under control.

However, the New York Times recently published a report that seems to nail down the reason behind Donald’s sudden change in heart and, unsurprisingly, it has nothing to do with the health and safety of the American public.

“The numbers the health officials showed President Trump were overwhelming. With the peak of the coronavirus pandemic still weeks away, he was told, hundreds of thousands of Americans could face death if the country reopened too soon,” the New York Times’ Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman write. “But there was another set of numbers that also helped persuade Mr. Trump to shift gears on Sunday and abandon his goal of restoring normal life by Easter. Political advisers described for him polling that showed that voters overwhelmingly preferred to keep containment measures in place over sending people back to work prematurely.”

The Times report goes on, “Those two realities — the dire threat to the country and the caution of the American public — proved decisive at a critical juncture in the response to the pandemic, his advisers said. The first of those two realities, the deadly arc of the virus, has been known for weeks even if disregarded by the president when he set his Easter target. But the second of the two upended Mr. Trump’s assumptions about the politics of the situation and restrained, for a moment at least, his eagerness to get back to business as usual.”

This week, Trump publically admitted that his previous plans to get the country back to business as usual by the religious holiday deadline were simply not politically nor medically feasible and went on to officially extend the social distancing guidelines outlined by the federal government tentatively through the end of April.

However, it’s plain to see that Donald isn’t making any of these decisions based on what’s best for the millions of people he swore to protect. These decisions are based solely on what will serve Donald best at the time.

Frankly, he’s always been this way. We shouldn’t expect a global pandemic to be any exception to that rule.

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