Trump was not told coronavirus-infected Americans would be flown home from cruise ship

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President Trump grew furious with senior advisers this week over a decision to allow 14 Americans who tested positive for coronavirus to return to the United States from Japan after being assured that infected patients would remain in quarantine overseas, according to administration officials.

Trump and the administration’s coronavirus task force were told last Saturday that Americans who had spent weeks in quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess luxury liner where the virus had spread to hundreds of passengers would be brought home on two chartered planes — but that patients who had symptoms or the infection itself would stay in Japan.

Trump was briefed on the decision and agreed that healthy passengers should not be on the plane with sick ones, three senior administration officials said. But the State Department and a top U.S. health official ultimately decided to bring back the 14 Americans who tested positive for the virus on the planes and place them in isolation — without informing the president first.

Trump has since had several calls with top White House officials to say he should have been told, that it should have been his decision ...

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-was-not-told-coronavirus-infected-americans-would-be-flown-home-from-cruise-ship/2020/02/21/ae58b24c-54be-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

[Takket]

1. drumpf has nothing to complain about.......

he's right that they should have been quarantined until safe.......... but bad decisions are what happen when you slash any science based department funding in favor of larger military, amd purge all these organizations of anyone except those that lick your shoes.

[Corgigal]

2. To allow

the old fool cover.

Please, he doesn’t care, doesn’t read and has no idea how viruses work.

Is he playing golf this weekend?

[GemDigger]

3. Someone else will be getting fired shortly.

[hatrack]

4. So, President Weaknstupid, gonna fire a bunch more of your staffers?

Let Jared handle the epidemic?

Throw things and scream?

Push for more tax breaks?

Hold another rally?

Play golf?

Get a blowjob from "spiritual advisor" Paula White?

Defund the CDC?

Blame Obama?

Go ahead. Do something stupid, you fucking ambulatory pimple.

[yonder]

6. +1. Nice one.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Wait a minute. Not so fast. Get back to the spiritual advising.

Wait a minute. Not so fast. Get back to the spiritual advising.

[enough]

5. Sure. NT

[Girard442]

8. Crap, I agree with Trump, if that's what really happened.

Putting the positives onboard with the negatives sounds wildly irresponsible.

On edit: I smell a rat. It would be so Trumpian to "heroically and triumphantly rescue" all the Americans and then, when knowledgable people pointed out how effing stupid the move was, blame it all on someone else.