President Trump sided with protesters -- some of whom were armed -- in Michigan for their effort to reopen parts of the state after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended her emergency declaration keeping some businesses shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The message was the latest example of Trump's efforts to side with Americans, and in particular his own supporters, who are agitating for their states to lift restrictions on businesses and residents. Last month, he encouraged similar protests in states led by Democrats by calling for them to"LIBERATE.""The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire," Trump wrote on Friday."These are very good people, but they are angry.
While he once proclaimed"absolute power" to reopen parts of the country, Trump later conceded that decisions about how and when to return to a more normal state would fall to individual governors, who enacted stay-at-home orders in the first place. But even on the sidelines, Trump has pressed state leaders to loosen their restrictions.
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