Donald Trump has NEVER thought of being President as being the leader of a 330+ country…
It’s always been about HIM and HIS …..
Same goes for the Federal Caronavirus assistance that President’s ARE SUPPOSED to help state’s with….(People pay federal tax money for services, right?)
With Trump?
He wants ya to kiss his ass….
Forget the suffering people….
That ‘loyalty ‘ thing IS ALWAYS there….
For example, he is not happy with Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of the state of Michigan, where Detroit has become a hot zone in which hospitals are overwhelmed and already preparing contingency plans to triage patients in order to ration things like ventilators. In several appearances addressing the crisis in her state, Whitmer has been critical of the federal response—or lack thereof—to the pandemic. The president* told Hannity:
“She is a new governor, and it’s not been pleasant … “We’ve had a big problem with the young — a woman governor. You know who I’m talking about — from Michigan. We don’t like to see the complaints…She doesn’t get it done, and we send her a lot. Now, she wants a declaration of emergency, and, you know, we’ll have to make a decision on that. But Michigan is a very important state. I love the people of Michigan.”
Whitmer, meanwhile, in an interview with WWJ Newsradio in Detroit, explained what being on the business end of the pandemic shakedown was like.
“What I’ve gotten back is that vendors with whom we’ve procured contracts — They’re being told not to send stuff to Michigan,” Whitmer said live on air. “It’s really concerning, I reached out to the White House last night and asked for a phone call with the president, ironically at the time this stuff was going on.”
Also on Hannity, the president* expressed doubts that the ventilator shortage in New York is as grave as Governor Andrew Cuomo says it is.
“New York is a bigger deal, but it’s going to go, also. But I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they are going to be. I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.”
On Wednesday, of course, talking to another Fox News meat puppet, Trump made the general outlines of the shakedown quite plain. From Business Insider:
“It’s a two-way street,” Trump said of his discussions with governors about providing their states with federal aid. “They have to treat us well also. They can’t say, ‘Oh gee, we should get this, we should get that.’ We’re doing a great job.” Trump used New York an example of how the federal government had put forward resources to support states. “We’re literally building hospitals and medical centers,” he said. “And then I hear that there’s a problem with ventilators — well, we sent them ventilators, and they could have had 15 or 16,000, all they had to do was order them two years ago. But they decided not to do it. They can’t blame us for that.”
The question facing us all now as citizens is whether or not the response of our country to a worldwide pandemic is being driven by the basic strategy of the Piranha Brothers….
“President Trump is a commander in chief dealing with a coronavirus outbreak in which many difficult decisions have to be made. And on Friday, he seemed to suggest some of those decisions could be made according to who has run afoul of him personally,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump disclosed that he has told Vice President Pence, who is leading the coronavirus task force, not to call the governors of Michigan and Washington state because those governors had been critical of Trump and the federal response.”
Said Trump: “When they’re not appreciative to me, they’re not appreciative to the Army Corps, they’re not appreciative to FEMA, it’s not right.”
Politicalwire…
If Trump wants to claim all the credit for a still-horribly-unprepared FEMA, led by a clueless Acting Director (Peter Gaynor), I wouldn’t deny him.
From Political Wire….
Trump was warned by leading acolyte Sen.Lindsay Graham(InThe Cult-SC) that if he relaxes the orders put in place to control the virus outbreak ,he and the Republican Party will “own” the resulting deaths.
Trump alternately downplays the severity of the crisis and talks about “reopening the country ,” but then will go strangely silent on the same topics for days thereafter.In essence, hes acting in this situation pretty much like he does in all others.
Are you trying to call the Commander in Chief irresolute ??
And I see the weaselly but transparent way you try to place Sen. Graham somewhere other than your belovèd Palmetto State. But face it you and your fellow South Carolinians own Lindsay Graham, just as much as Pres. Trump does and just as you own John C. Calhoun and J. Strom Thurmond. ;–)
[Of course, you might in turn point out that Sen. Nelson Aldrich was a Rhode Islander and that George Lincoln Rockwell went to Brown. But then we have Lincoln Chafee !!]
“South Carolina, too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum.”
James L Pettigru, S.C. attorney during the secession crisis of 1860.
True today as it was then!
I think the President IS gonna dump the CDC restrictions in the governor’s laps and try to play it off….
From the numbers ?
Louisiana is actually becoming worse than NYC
Trump is NOT the guy up for crisis management…
Biden IS doing good off of Trump’s ineptness
It shouldn’t cost lives…
Describe how exactlyTrump is going to accomplish what you claim.
And do you Still support that move as you did earlier ?
Jack?
U can be pissed at me?
But Trump IS gonna do what he WILL do….
My thought is a step back for low risk area’s determined the feds but the call from each state….
I have said do another 2 weeks and reevaluate
I’m not “ pissed” at you.
I simply asked you an honest question to which you essentially said that you still support Trumps potential move.
Do you have a good supply of bottled water?
Ok….
Good to get THAT straight …