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President Donald Trump gestures towards a screen displaying a graphic on the coronavirus outbreak as he speaks during a news conference at the White House, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

2020 continues to show us that any plans or ideas we thought were set in stone ... they are not.

In a surprise (but in some ways, not a surprise) announcement Thursday, President Donald Trump said the Republican National Convention will no longer include events in Jacksonville, Florida.

"The timing for this event is not right," Trump told reporters at the White House during his latest briefing on coronavirus. "There's nothing more important in our country than keeping our people safe."

It was last month when Republicans announced they would move the high-profile portions of the convention, including Trump's speech accepting the party's nomination, out of North Carolina. That decision came after North Carolina's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, imposed a shelter in place order that would have limited the event.

Earlier this month, USA TODAY reported that Republicans were considering moving portions of the event outside, while local officials had raised concerns about the security and staffing of the event.

"I'll still do a convention speech in a different form, but we won't do a big, crowded convention," Trump said Thursday. "I care deeply about the people of Florida and everywhere else, frankly, in this country and even in the world who would be coming into the state. And I don't want to do anything to upset it."

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