Get me my crowds!

In recent meetings with top campaign officials and White House aides, Trump has questioned why he’s avoiding campaign events if it‘s safe for him to travel in his official capacity. The president visited two medical supply facilities in Arizona and Pennsylvania this month and will tour a Ford ventilator factory in Michigan on Thursday. The official White House travel replaced what would have otherwise been a much busier campaign season for the president, who held three rallies in three days at the end of February.

  Politico

Not a thought given to the people he wants to rally up. It's safe for HIM to travel, so what's the holdup?

His base is too stupid, apparently, to get it.  At least that's what the campaign is hoping.

Before the end of this month, the Trump campaign hopes to organize a series of virtual events featuring the president, who has eschewed the digital campaign trail while others involved with his reelection court voters and train supporters during nightly live streams and online briefings.

Can't wait to see how he gets his fix from virtual rallies.

Some White House allies have encouraged the campaign to prioritize its plan for restarting rallies, worried that the optics and purpose of Trump’s official travel — during which the president has sent mixed messages about his administration’s response to the pandemic while surrounded by aides in face masks — is too morbid and lacks the showmanship his core base adores.

His crowds want a show. They don't care if they have a government.

“The president and his team will take every opportunity to make this a forward-looking election, where they can go out and say to all of the country, ‘Here’s what we are going to do on the other side of this crisis,’” said GOP strategist Alex Schriver, who spoke at the 2012 GOP convention.

Gee, I wonder if it might be a better use of their time to focus on what they're going to do so we CAN get to the other side of this crisis.

Events that will require weeks of advance planning could end up colliding with a resurgence of the virus in individual states, a potentially slow economic recovery or poor economic data that’s widely expected to continue for at least another month.

There is also a lack of consensus among voters that now is an appropriate time to resume large gatherings, particularly campaign rallies in communities that have lost thousands of residents to the lethal virus. In a Morning Consult poll released Monday, twice as many Republican voters as Democrats said they would feel comfortable attending a political rally between now and the November election given what they currently know about the novel coronavirus. Still, a majority of GOP voters (51 percent) said the virus has made them “much less likely” to participate in physical campaign events this cycle.

At least some of them still have their wits.

Aides who have monitored Trump’s most recent events have already witnessed an incumbent president who is itching to shift the conversation back to issues that feel comfortable to him.

During a roundtable discussion with Navajo leaders about the Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on Native American communities, Trump made a lengthy plug for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, noting his administration has already completed 172 miles of the new barrier.

Tone deaf.

The roundtable followed a presidential tour of a Honeywell mask facility where ’80s rock songs from Trump’s campaign rally playlist blared overhead as he made his way through the production site.

Pathetic.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.