Donald Trump speaks at White House coronavirus task force briefing (MSNBC/screen grab)
At Thursday's White House press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump repeated his insistence that schools should open immediately regardless of whether they have a plan to keep students and teachers safe — despite vast majorities of the public opposed to this demand, and despite the fact that Trump himself is now canceling the Jacksonville portion of the GOP convention out of COVID-19 danger.
Trump then took it a step further, suggesting that public schools that do not reopen should be defunded and their budgets handed out to parents to send their children to private or parochial institutions.
