Trump says U.S. will not lock down again amid rising coronavirus cases

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN

WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would not close businesses again as several states reported rising numbers of new coronavirus infections.

"We won't be closing the country again. We won't have to do that," Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel.

Trump's comments come after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin both said the United States could not shut down the economy again.

In a call with governors, Vice President Mike Pence encouraged them to repeat the administration's claim that increased testing accounts for the spike in numbers, the New York Times has reported.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-us-will-not-lock-down-again-amid-rising-coronavirus-cases/ar-BB15Dktk?li=BBnb7Kz

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I guess all those people flooding the hospitals in Arizona are just crisis actors. Of course, if it becomes to hard to ignore, watch Trump blame Obama, Democrats, China, Mexico, immigrants, BLM protesters, the liberal media, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, etc.

[MFM008]

1. ONCE AGAIN

not up to him.........

[roamer65]

5. THIS.

[Thekaspervote]

7. He has no say in it!!

[Grokenstein]

10. That's true...but let him own the inevitable catastrophe.

As usual, he'll refuse to accept responsibility.
But that's also not up to him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Not "let". Make him own it. . . . nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. He didn't have anything to do with the first shutdown

except to claim he has unlimited powers.

[MontanaMama]

2. Like he gets to choose.

Nope. What a fucking moron.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Yup,

got to fill those Chinese Pork and Chicken orders. Yupper,another 500 Immigrant workers must lay down their lives so Donnie can get his Reelection bid. Got to make them Midwest farmers all happy so they vote for him.

[truthisfreedom]

4. As the hospitals fill to capacity, it's the fault of all of the testing. Riiiiiight. This delusional

administration is just a circle jerk of magical thinking.

[PSPS]

6. Such proclamations won't last. It's like braying at the moon.

While trump and his republican apparatchiks and governors say, "we're not closing again," it just means that the torso pile outside the white house/governor's mansion/etc., will keep growing until either they have to or they participate in a modern-era Giulino di Mezzegra. You can't make the moon go away by braying at it.

[iluvtennis]

8. What a fkn MORON. Hurry up November 2020 so we can vote this dipshit out of office. nt

[sheshe2]

9. Fugg him and Pence.

States choice not theirs.

[AllyCat]

11. Fuck this narcissistic POS. He has no authority over this.

Screw him and the orange turd he rode in on.

[Python boot]

14. False prophet

Jesus knows you are lying Pence. Leading the flock astray. You have much to pay for.

[gademocrat7]

15. Insane rhetoric

Trump and his minions can lie and ignore the pandemic. The pandemic will not ignore them.

[Miguelito Loveless]

16. As the virus is mostly killing POC

this is now considered beneficial to Trump”s re-election, so the higher the numbers, the better.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. I guess until the bodies start piling up in the streets like 1918, it's let 'er rip (R.I.P.?)

[Firestorm49]

18. If they can wipe out a quarter of a million largely black and Hispanic voters,

they might be able to swing the election their way.

Do I sound stupid ? You bet. Would I put it past them? Hell no.

The Republican Party is just as sleazy as it’s always been. To put a value on human life is not in their wheelhouse.