Going Full Palpatine

What, are their totally lack of skills
and experience needed elsewhere?

Rest easy everyone, that gameshow host the electoral college put in office over the explicit will of the people has put together an hilariously unqualified, seven member task force uh...tasked with deciding when and how we can all start breathing all over each other again. Oh, and two of those members were going to be Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner but then the President caved and said no they're not and they never were even though they totally were.

Huh? What's that noise? Why that's the deafening cry from every Governor reminding the President about how not up to him that is and that you can't just task force a pandemic into being less contagious, to which the President tweeted:

It ƒayƒ if right here in
black and brown: No kingƒ. 

"For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President...Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect...It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons."

-The President, apparently unaware 

that the Constitution is a thing

and we know what it says

Above: America has one King. One.
And he's a creepy mascot. That's enough.

Which, no, it's not the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. One of which is just in case someone like him somehow gets to be President. Anyway, he leaned into it:

"When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total. The governors know that."

-The President, inexplicably

not being led away by doctors 

Ok, so...the governors know that when someone is President the authority is strictly laid out in the Constitution and-wait, does he not know what a President is? No seriously. I'm asking. Because he went full Palpatine on the White House Press Room today.

No, limited power. Very limited power.
That's the whole goddamn point.

People with an addiction problem
give you money and you keep it.
And he couldn't even get that right.

In response to this ludicrous claim of total, unchallenged authority by a guy who can't even keep a casino from going under much less lead the country in a crisis he was warned about years in advance, governors of several states have agreed to coordinate re-opening efforts with each other. You know, instead of waiting for the administration to get smarter. New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Connecticut have formed a regional council as have California, Washington and Oregon while several Midwestern states will be doing likewise as well.

Does...does he think everyone's dumb
but him? Is that what's going on?

The idea-as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo puts it, is to make sure "...that any plan to reopen society must be driven by data and experts, not opinion and politics." Which, and I don't know about you, but it sounds to me like a way better plan than shouting at reporters for asking valid questions and then showing them a video cribbed from Sean Hannity about how great a job you're doing. No, really, he did that. Oh, and yes, that video was totally paid for with tax payer money.

You know, I can't help but feel a swell of hope knowing that smart people are working together to make sure we come out of this safely. It almost makes me wonder if this could be taken a step further. Could you imagine some kind of federation of the states? A union in which Americans could work together in common cause under unified and competent leadership. What would that be like?

Four years ago. It would be like four years ago.