After Trump said his political team gave him drawings and schedules for the republican National Convention in Jacksonville, even claiming people wanted “to be there desperately,” he told the press conference that he told his team to cancel the plans in Jacksonville.
At his Thursday afternoon media briefing, Trump said that he personally decided to cancel the Jacksonville celebration, planned for August 25-27, while they’ll have the necessary business of the convention in Charlotte, where the convention was originally planned.
Florida has been seeing a massive outbreak of coronavirus in the last month, averaging more than 10,000 new daily cases reported over the last two weeks.
Trump ordered the RNC to schedule a massive celebration in a city other than Charlotte because North Carolina coronavirus precautions would have mandated social distancing and facemasks in public, requirements that Trump did not want.
Florida had started reopening the state’s economy, eschewing the advice of public health professionals, which attracted Trump to the state.