Surprise: Trump’s “Opening Our Country Council” Is Already A Total Mess | Vanity Fair

Until Donald Trump read their names out loud in the Rose Garden of the White House this week, leaders from several high-profile corporations had no idea they’d been tapped to help advise the president to restart the nation’s coronavirus-ravaged economy. “We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden,” a lobbyist for one of the blindsided companies told the Washington Post Wednesday. “What the [expletive]? How do you go from ‘Join us on a call’ to, ‘Well, you’re on the team?’”
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