Rationale

Yesterday, Trump announced he was disbanding the Corona Virus Task Force. One must assume he decided to do so because it was dragging its feet on reopening the economy, contradicting him when he went of on a flight of fancy (about hydroxychloroquine, injecting disinfectant etc.) which made him look bad, and generally sending depressing messages about the likely death toll. None of this was helping him get re-elected.

Today however, he suddenly reversed course, announcing that he was keeping the task force after all. Why? Well, and I quote: "I had no idea it was so popular".

So lets review. He was going to disband the task force because science was getting in the way of his reelection. Then he reinstated it, not out of some new-found respect for science, but because it was "popular" and he figured that keeping it was good for his reelection.

That's the kind of focused, goal-oriented leadership we've come to expect.