Of course that’s why Donald Trump did it

| 1:07 am EDT March 31, 2020
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One way or another, Donald Trump’s pipe dream of reopening the country by Easter was never going to happen. After all, Trump wasn’t the one who implemented any of the lockdowns or shutdowns to begin with, so there was nothing for him to reopen. But on Monday, Trump admitted during his disastrous press conference that Easter was indeed not happening.

So what convinced Donald Trump to acknowledge that America was going to have to remain shut down for another month? Was it the rising death toll? No. Was it the overloaded hospitals with nurses wearing trash bags? No. It turns out Trump’s handlers managed to convince him to cave by showing him poll numbers.

That’s right, poll numbers. The New York Times is reporting that Trump’s advisers showed him numbers that made clear most Americans want to leave the country shut down, because they’re not okay with the staggering death toll that would result from reopening the country by Easter.

So we’ve got a “President” who cares less about the lives of Americans than Americans do. That’s profoundly wrong, and yet with this guy, not at all surprising.