Trump takes aim at Cuomo over request for more ventilators

[left-of-center2012]

scroll down on link to 12:28 p.m.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/24/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-WOU647LNDJFV3LGJVP5YBR6EGA

After days of striking a cooperative note with New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), President Trump on Tuesday switched gears, sharply criticizing Cuomo over his request for the federal government to send more ventilators to the hard-hit state.

“New York needs 30,000 ventilators,” Cuomo had tweeted earlier Tuesday, following a news conference at which he made the same request. “It will be the difference between life and death. The federal government must provide these ventilators. Only the federal government has the power to deliver.”

Trump chafed at the request during his Fox News Channel town hall. “We’re building him hospitals, we’re building him medical centers … and he was talking about the ventilators. But he should have ordered the ventilators. And he had a choice; he had a chance,” Trump said of Cuomo.

Later during the interview, Trump sought to prod Deborah Birx, a medical leader on the White House coronavirus task force, to attack Cuomo, as well. Birx was citing the potential reasons New York City has been a hot spot for coronavirus infections. One reason could be the number of people touching the metal surfaces on the subway, she said ...

“Do you blame the governor for that?” Trump interjected with a smirk.
Birx ignored Trump and continued talking.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. What a disgusting and filty human being. rump is a murderer.

[budkin]

2. It gets worse WORSE WORSE FUCKING WORSE

Every goddamn thing this clown DOES! I'm tired of it!

[2naSalit]

3. It's getting really close to

time for the pitchforks.

[left-of-center2012]

4. yeah, but ...

No more than 10 to a crowd,
and stand 6 feet apart.

[2naSalit]

5. Makes it harder to mow us down...

and pitchforks have 5-6ft handles. Just sayin'. If we stand that far apart in large numbers, how can they tell where the first ten end and the next starts?

[gratuitous]

6. Nobody backs Trumpy into a corner

Trump doesn't know how government works or how it's supposed to work. He's about one thing, himself, and how good or bad something makes him look. Cuomo started to make him look bad, so it is time to lash out. Sure, people can get sick and die, but New York isn't going to vote for him in November anyway and Trump needs to look better.

[left-of-center2012]

7. "Trump interjected with a smirk"