President Trump
Donald John Trump The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to defeat ObamaCare Trump says there will be ‘retribution’ for those who disfigure the monuments of the White House task force that tracks coronavirus spikes even when Trump says the virus is ‘disappearing’: MORE report He canceled a planned trip to his golf club in New Jersey this weekend as coronavirus cases increase in several states.
Trump was scheduled to leave the White House for his Bedminster property later on Friday and return to Washington, DC, on Sunday. But the president abruptly dismissed the trip without public explanation.
The White House often keeps the President’s activities in Bedminster private, but he regularly plays golf while there.
The change in plans occurs when Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and other states see a sharp increase in coronavirus cases. Texas and Florida announced Friday morning that the bars would either be closed or no longer allowed to serve alcohol on-site, the first time that any state has stepped back in its reopening processes.
Florida broke its one-day record of new coronavirus cases reported on Friday, adding an additional 8,942 cases, according to the state Department of Health.
Texas has reported more than 5,400 new cases of coronavirus in each of the past three days, setting successively higher one-day records.
There are more than 2.4 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S., and more than 124,000 have died from the virus.
The White House coronavirus task force will hold a briefing on Friday afternoon, the first in about two months. The briefing will be chaired by Vice President Pence of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Trump is not expected to attend.
New Jersey, New York and Connecticut announced earlier this week that visitors to states with large numbers of coronavirus cases, including Arizona, would have to be quarantined for two weeks.
Trump, who traveled to Arizona earlier this week to visit the border wall and speak to a full audience of supporters, would have fallen under the quarantine requirement under normal conditions. But the White House said Trump would not observe quarantine because he “is not a civilian” and is regularly tested.
New Jersey, New York and Connecticut faced an early increase in cases and are beginning to recover.
“It has nothing to do with it,” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said when asked if the cancellation was related to travel regulations.
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