White House to shift to economic message on coronavirus

[applegrove]

White House to shift to economic message on coronavirus

Jonathan Swan

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The White House plans to shift its coronavirus messaging toward boosting the economy and highlighting "success stories" of businesses, reducing its public emphasis on health statistics, according to two officials familiar with the planning.

Driving the news: The Coronavirus Task Force — and the doctors who've become household names, Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci — "will continue but take a back seat to the forward-looking, 'what's next' message," a White House official told Axios.

President Trump is expected to make fewer, shorter appearances at press conferences, as we reported on Friday.Nothing's ever set with Trump, and these decisions will be made day by day. But on Saturday, for the first day in weeks, the White House didn't hold a press briefing and the president made no public appearances.

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Trump will host businesses who've been harmed by the coronavirus, and he'll highlight the governors who are reopening their economies in line with the Trump administration's guidelines.That group pointedly does not include Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

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[Botany]

1. 1,000,000 cases and 55,000 + dead so it is time to change the subject

[Cirque du So-What]

2. We cannot allow this

We must keep the focus upon public health and how prematurely opening everything will lead to rising deaths.

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[bdamomma]

16. Everyone

should send him the daily death count and say their blood is on your hands.

Send to the WH e-mail. Crap he is massacring Americans.

[spanone]

3. Still downplaying it.

[Iliyah]

4. When you have a person in the WH that has no . . .

compassion, concerns, love, and hope etc. and surrounds himself with people who feel the same way and all of them belong to a political party that feels the same and also claim to be "Christians" . .

What could go wrong?

[Jarqui]

5. Here's the real message as I interpret it (and expected):

"Polls are terrible for me. In order for me to get reelected, we have to make it seem like the economy is moving again - which means all the stuff we have been doing recently to limit the spread of the virus - even though we started way too late - is out the window. We'll save as many Republicans as we can."

[Raven]

6. What's next? More virus, I'm afraid.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. I admit I have not been tuning in closely, but this is a shift in messaging?

Every time I've had the misfortune to encounter one of the press campaign briefing rallies, he's been punting for corporate CEOs. Has his message ever not been economic?

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Sure, the WH can shift anyway or anywhere they can, to try and escape blame. Way too ...

late for this. And, I suspect that the coming CV outbreaks w/ some that are opening too early beaches etc., will keep the CV firmly in our sights, regardless of what people may or may not want. Virus has its own agenda and timeline in mind, not ours.

[Beartracks]

10. "What's next" - like the pandemic is over.

So their plan to end the pandemic is just to say it's over.

Until the shark is captured or killed, it is never a good idea to go back in the water.



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[Dem2]

11. Flailing attempt to change the subject, Bleachmaster?

Ain't gonna work.

[Chainfire]

12. They still don't get the simple fact

This is a health crisis first, the economic problem is a symptom. So the Trump administration intends to downplay the medical part and hype the economic part.

[stillcool]

13. shifting from?

where has the focus been,..ever? As long as It is on the stage, It will demand the focus be on Itself.

[struggle4progress]

14. "I'm doing a fantastic job! We have beautiful bleach sales! Just incredible!"

[bdamomma]

15. they really

need to put a fork in it they are done.

[Jamastiene]

17. He's taking his ball and going home.

So, he can fail miserably at something else next.

[Bad Thoughts]

18. Then work on food

Here's a problem for Dickhead Trump: how can we get food from service and restaurant sectors into consumer channels? How can we restock grocery stores with existing supplies?

Those are economic problems, no? How about: how can we make it so that people can pay for the household goods they need?

I doubt he cares.

[global1]

19. We'll Unfortunately Have To Watch Him Fail At Reopening.....

as positive cases and deaths start ramping up again because he wants to jump the gun.

He hasn't solved the initial problems and there is still a lack of PPE, masks and testing. As hospitals become overwhelmed again and States continue the stay-at-home orders - he'll be back in the soup again and this time it the American People will really be pissed.