Blind Hog Finds Acorn!

He constantly blusters and threatens all sorts of things, most of which never come to pass. In this instance, he is claiming supreme executive authority, but there is no sign he will try to exercise it. Indeed, he actions so far have been highly deferential to governors & mayors.

— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 14, 2020

I agree with Brit Hume!

But isn't the logical outcome of his argument that Trump is a blustering fool who shouldn't be listened to?  Kind of like Chris Christie's defense of Trump playing golf in February:

“First of all, the golfing, Sunny, to me that’s part of what I talked about before about the death spiral, okay?” said Christie. “The golfing thing is just a gratuitous shot that we don’t need to take. Believe me, members of Congress were golfing and doing — the president and members of Congress and others in state governments, I’m sure, were playing golf as well at certain times.”

Really?  That's the best you've got?  Other people were goofing off, too, so it's okay that the President did?  Worse, his "defense" decayed into a forest of words that offered no defense at all except "Well, yeah, but....China!"

“Believe me, I’m aware, Sunny, that he’s the president. I actually read the newspaper every day and I’m aware that he’s the president,” Christie snapped. “Here’s the thing that’s much more subtle about this. This is not — this is a competing interest decision when you’re a leader because remember, we now will talk about what’s happened to the economy once we made the decision to close everything down. And you have now over 12 million people unemployed, probably more to come in the weeks to come. There’s a lot of competing interest, and also I think frankly we weren’t getting honest information from China. I think that’s part of what contributed to this as well.”

Honestly, I've seen 5 year olds come up with better excuses.