Eddie Glaude Jr.: Trump Is Interested Only in His Well-Being While Opening Up the Economy

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GLAUDE JR.: “But, Joe, when I read that Tweet, it enrages me. I’m thinking about all the people that he’s putting in danger, and then I’m reminded of what Dr. Fauci told us when we first started doing the press conferences around COVID-19. Remember, he said that we would see this lag. Even if we bent the curve, there would then be the death lag, the deaths would still rise. So you had spikes happening in The South, even though you’ve seen bending of curves in some places. We still haven’t experienced the lag yet. So I’m just wondering when this accumulated knowledge from what we have experienced up until now will then be brought to bear on how we respond to the current circumstances. Instead, we get this clamoring to open up the economy because Donald Trump is really interested in his political well-being. So as Princeton looks at the data to make a decision about when to bring kids back to campus, we need to be looking at the data and experience as we try to open up our economy. It just seems only right to me."