You’d think that even a president who claimed “absolute authority” would step aside as groups of West Coast and East Coast governors devise strategies for reopening their economies without causing a spike in coronavirus cases. They know their hot zones and travel patterns across state borders. A president committed to the public weal might even ask the governors, “How may I help?”
But that’s not the president we have. Trump commandeered the national conversation with that ridiculous assertion — and then backed down the next day.
In a Monday tweet, he likened the governors to crew members in “Mutiny on the Bounty” and himself to the captain. In the movie, a group of sailors wrest control of the ship from the sadistic Captain Bligh. Trump may have missed the part when Bligh gets sent off in a rowboat — and the ship sails on. Continue reading.