Epilogue
Crisis over! On May 5, the president, touring maskless at a mask factory while “Live and Let Die” blared, announced plans to disband the coronavirus task force (and then dis-disbanded it, at least for now). Two days earlier, at the Lincoln Memorial, comparisons were drawn between Trump and Honest Abe, by Trump anyway: “Look, I am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen. The closest would be that gentleman right up there. They always said Lincoln—nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.”
In other words, back to normal.
