>> Just yesterday Donald Trump teased the idea of disbanding the Coronavirus Task Force.
Now keep in mind that he would do this at a time when we're seeing a spike in the number
of coronavirus cases in various parts of the country. There have been several states that
have decided to prematurely open their local economies back up and as a result we're seeing
an increase in the number of people who have contracted COVID-19.
And keep in mind that it's been well over a month since we've had less than a thousand
people in this country die every day from this virus. So he thought, you know what?
The only people who have any expertise to deal with this, the only people who aren't
interested in robbing you as taxpayers of their hard earned money to distribute it to
my buddies are these health professionals.
So let me go ahead and disband the group that they're part of. But luckily there was some
backlash and today he's singing a little bit of a different tune. Let's take a look.
>> We're keeping the task force for a period of time. I look forward to when we can close
the task force, cuz then the job will be essentially hopefully over, Mike, right?
And you've done a fantastic job. >> Mr President.
>> Yes. >> Can you explain the change between what
you said yesterday about winding down the task force and now, saying you’re going
to keep it? >> Well, I think, yeah.
>> Because it is different from what you said yesterday, sir.
>> Well, I guess if you think, we're always winding it down, but it's a question of what
the end point it is. But I think it is a change a little bit. I thought we could wind it down
sooner. But I had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yesterday.
When I started talking about winding it down, I'd get calls from very respected people,
saying I think it'd be better to keep it going. It's done such a good job.
>> Let me just decode that for one second. He got calls from very important people, meaning
members of his campaign, his campaign advisors.
Who probably told him, this is a really bad idea, it's not playing well. It's an unpopular
position to have. And that was when he changed course. Donald Trump does not care about you,
whoever you are watching this right now thinking, we might have some leadership in the country.
No, there's no leadership. Donald Trump looks out for Donald Trump. He doesn't care about
making sure the right experts and professionals are in place to carry out the right policies
to keep people alive. He doesn't care about that. What he cares about is getting reelected.
What he cares about is using the office of the presidency in order to enrich himself
and his disgusting friends.
That's all he cares about. That's Donald Trump in a nutshell, and the only friends he looks
out for, by the way, are those who do favors for him. So it always goes back to that disgusting
orange buffon. John. >> I mean, I have a feeling he did get calls
some probably our campaign officials like you said probably saying like, what what are
you doing, are you out of your mind?
Some were probably medical professionals. I just have a feeling that what they called
to tell him was not keep it going, you've done such a great job. It might have been,
keep it going because thousands of Americans are still dying every day. How could you possibly
think that your work was done?
You've done almost nothing and people are still dying. We expect that the number per
day that are dying are gonna go up actually, you don't seem to care about that. It's really,
really weird that you don't care about that. Maybe let's have some people in the room who
do kind of.
Who do have a little bit of an attachment to the idea of not killing a 9/11 of Americans
every single day for the next few months. And honestly, the people watching, if you're
watching this video right now, what has the task force done in the past two weeks?
Three weeks? I don't know, at chopper talk this morning he said we're doing too much
testing already. A nurse said that her access to PPE is sporadic and he corrected her and
said no, hospitals have all the PPE that they need. So like I-
>> It was right out of Kim Jung-Un's playbook, 100%.
You have medical professionals surrounding you so they can basically spout your propaganda.
And if they have the audacity to go against your propaganda for even a second, right,
off message for even a second, you scold them in front of the press. Yeah, that video was
gross and I have no interest in perpetuating the lies that he wanted to spread through
that propaganda.
But I'm sorry, John, I interrupted you, keep going.
>> No, no, it's okay, understandably so and justifiably so. Yeah, I have this knee-jerk
reaction that says that we should still have the task force because it's an absolute disaster,
the likes of which we've haven't had domestically in our entire life.
And God helping never will again. But they don't seem to care and they don't seem to
be doing anything. Like he only ever cared to the extent that he sort of had fun doing
the press conferences and he thought that it was getting him good ratings or whatever.
He wasn't actually there to make sure that everyone's doing everything they can to save
as many lives as possible. No, as long as he's here it is only going to get worse, and
so I'll say it again, get him out, get him out, get him out, get him out.
People are dying. While I was just talking, five more people died because of a pandemic
that is far worse than it ever needed to be because of the presence of Donald Trump in
the White House. >> So he told reporters today that the Coronavirus
Task Force will remain in place indefinitely, but I never put much weight behind anything
he says because he changes his opinion day to day.
He shoots from the hip and doesn't make decisions based on logic or the best interests of the
people he's supposed to be representing. He values nothing but himself. That's it.