CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e’ll be leaving the task force indefinitely. We’ll see. You know, at a certain point, that’ll end like things end. But we’ll be adding some people to the task force… So we’re keeping the task force for a period of time…
Well, I guess, if you think, we’re always winding it down… 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 it down, I’d get calls from very respected people saying, ‘I think it would be better to keep it going. It’s done such a good job.'”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Signing of a Proclamation in Honor of National Nurses Day,” whitehouse.gov, May 6, 2020