Comes to mind, as I said on this other thread betcha any backtracking like this that comes out of his mouth but doesn't sound like him, comes from a campaign strategist who has managed to get across a warning to him:

“I’m not gonna do anything rash or hastily. I don’t do that,” potus says of loosening the restrictions.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 25, 2020

He was probably also told to pander to the churchgoing with hope about Easter but he played it poorly so it had to be refined? He narcissistically played it as if he was going to save the economy by issuing an edict telling everyone to come back out in the world, which on the face of it is ridiculous. Because he wasn't the one who told everyone to stay home. There are soooo many places to hit him here with ads of his own words. Every day he's on that podium is bad for his campaign. Every day he's not leading on this is also bad for his campaign. Because he doesn't know how to shut up and just lead the conference. It's not rocket science, Pence is quite capable at doing it correctly without foot in mouth. But he's incapable of not fucking it up because of the narcissism.

There are so many comparisons to the old days that are fruitful lines of thought.  Was just thinking about how George Bush would admit to elites that he hated having to pander to evangelicals.....