President Trump: I Will Listen to Doctors but Make My OWN Decision About U.S. Economy

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President Trump vows to make his own decisions when it comes to the economy amid the coronavirus outbreak

President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would make his own decision about the future of the U.S. economy, indicating that he would not be bullied by Democrats or the media into imposing unnecessary draconian lockdowns across the country.

“Ultimately, I have to make a decision, but I certainly listen to them,” Trump said when asked if he would follow the advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci about loosening national guidelines restricting the behavior of the American people.

Breitbart.com reports: The president spoke with reporters for over an hour and a half during a White House press briefing on Monday evening.

Trump said he had “respect” for Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx but suggested that they would likely err on the side of caution.

“If it were up to the doctors, they may say, ‘Let’s keep it shut down, let’s shut down the entire world … and let’s keep it shut for a couple of years,’” he said. “We can’t do that.”

When asked if Fauci agreed with him that the economy should open soon, Trump replied, “He doesn’t not agree with me.”

But the president said that he would be the one making decisions about the future, citing his “double obligation” to the American people. He also warned about the rising mortality rate as a result of losing the American economy:

We have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death probably, definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers we’re talking about with regard to the virus.

He compared the mortality rates for suicides, car crashes, and the ordinary flu to the coronavirus death rate and said that had to be weighed before making a decision.

“The whole concept of death is terrible,” Trump said. “But there’s a tremendous difference between one percent and four or five.”

The president ultimately said that America could keep the economy going and fight the virus and said it would be irresponsible to shut down the country longer than necessary.

“We’re going to come up with a date and we’re going to do two things,” he said. “We can do two things at one time. At the same time, we’re going to be very vigilant.”

Trump said the tough restrictions on Americans would be “weeks not months” and said updated guidelines eventually might vary for certain age groups and different hot spots in the country.

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  1. It’s true. a devastated economy with millions of drug addicts and criminals on the loose will be a disaster in every suburb Murders robberies violent crime shootings stabbings and utter chaos And there’s no way that police or the army could cope without civil war resulting Just what the Dr ordered.

  2. This Wuhan Corona Virus Covid-19 is an attack on all freedom loving peoples around the world… The Bioweapon was released in late October early November using a manipulated corona virus taken from the Canadian Government Laboratory by a Chinese scientist who made four trips back to her home lab in Wuhan China… The molecular structure of the virus was manipulated weaponized and released.. The Hyped up reporting by American news sources was in place from the beginning.. The purpose of the impeachment hoax was to keep President Trump busy elsewhere with attention focused on the lies being promoted by the Democrat party. After several attempts to destroy President Trump the leftists under the leadership of the United Nations went all in to preserve the upcoming Chinese century (Silk Road Project) in which a one world communist regime led by the U.N. seizes total and absolute control over human life… The story gets much deeper and darker as we look into population control by the U.N. as they put both agenda 21 and agenda 2030 into full operation. The goal is to reduce the global population from the current 7.6 billion people to 300 million resulting in 7.3 billion people over ten years… This is not time to fear this virus COVID19 it is time to rise up to defeat this enemy stopping their sick plot against humanity in it’s tracks. God bless us all in the name of Jesus Christ Amen!!..!

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