Back on March 13, Donald Trump held a press event where he brought up executives from Walmart, Target, Walgreens, & CVS to promise drive-thru testing in parking lots across the country. It was the same event where he claimed "1700 engineers" at Google were building a web site …

The idea was to present two things:
1) There was going to be a nationwide system of widespread testing available to everyone
2) There would be an online site to coordinate this testing, providing scheduling and directions to the nearest site.
Wall Street loved it. …

Stocks soared on the news. Except ...
1) Only five sites ever opened, and all of them were only for first responders, not the general public.
2) The web site didn't exist and still doesn't.
3) On Friday, Trump is shutting the whole thing down. …

The illusion that there was to be a coordinated national testing program with the cooperation and involvement of America's top retailers gave Trump a stock market bump that he bragged about for days. But ultimately, this whole "plan" was an illusion. …

And now not just these five sites, but ALL federal funding for coronavirus testing is being pulled tomorrow, even as cases and deaths continue to soar. Because at this point, testing is in the way of the current Trump illusion -- that somehow we've already "won."