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Americans Furious After Trump Names His ‘Council to Reopen America’ With the Worst People Possible

Donald Trump confirmed he plans to convene a new council of business and medical leaders intended to guide his administration toward reopening the U.S. economy, and now we know who those names are.

Trump teased the new group at a White House news briefing on Friday, saying he would dub it the “Opening Our Country Council.” The members would be announced Tuesday, he said.

“We’re also setting up a council of very, very great doctors and businesspeople,” he said, saying the group’s focus would be “beyond economic.”

Trump suggested the group would be bipartisan and be diverse in terms of geography because of the way the coronavirus has impacted certain parts of the country differently.

The formation of the group was expected, with reported members including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump, as well as private-sector figures. Now we see it also includes Jared Kushner and Wilbur Ross, the same man who said coronavirus would be “good for the country.”

The president and his top aides have in recent days been pushing to reopen parts of the economy as early as the start of May as unemployment skyrockets and businesses across the country remain shuttered due to the virus outbreak.

“I want to get it open as soon as possible,” Trump said Friday. “This country was meant to be open and vibrant and great.”

Trump added that he would not singularly push to reopen the economy, telling reporters that “the facts are going to determine” his course of action.

Twitter was sickened:

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