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Toddler-in-chief in the White House is frantic to reopen the economy

U.S. President Donald Trump has an election coming up in six months, and he will lose it if the economy has not recovered by then. Dr. Anthony Fauci has doubtless explained that lifting the restrictions on movement on May 1 will cause a second wave of deaths and a second lockdown before November, but Trump doesn’t retain that sort of information for long.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured on April 7, 2020, in the White House press briefing room. Mr. Trump might actually order the country to reopen on May 1, as he believes that 'When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total.' But most states wouldn’t obey his command: as New York governor Andrew Cuomo said: 'We have a Constitution … we don’t have a king … the president doesn’t have total authority.' Photograph courtesy of Flickr/White House photographer Andrea Hanks

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BY GWYNNE DYER
April 20, 2020

Opinion | BY GWYNNE DYER | April 20, 2020

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