“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 down...."
That was President Donald Trump explaining why he has backtracked on his plan, announced just 24 hours earlier, to "wind down" the Coronavirus Task Force by May 31. Note that his concern is not how effective the Task Force has been, or what good work it has achieved, but how "popular" it is.
It's as though we are being governed by Galinda from Wicked: "Popular, I know about popular...."
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