Posted on 03/22/2020 8:56:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday sharply criticized President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the federal government has not done enough to ramp up production of life-saving medical supplies like masks and ventilators and asking the president to deploy the military across the country.
“The president of the United States is from New York City and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown, and I don’t get it," de Blasio said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
"I don’t get it. Right now, I have asked repeatedly for the military to be mobilized, for the Defense Production Act to be used to its fullest to get us things like ventilators, so people can live who would die otherwise," he continued. “If the president doesn’t act, people will die who could have lived otherwise - senior citizens, folks who are members of families.”
“Why are they at their bases? Why are they not being allowed to serve? I guarantee you they are ready to serve, but the president has to give the order,” he said.
The comments sparked a back-and-forth with Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican, who said that looking backward is not productive.
“I don’t think just talking about what was done wrong yesterday or last week or last year is really that helpful in the discussion,” Hogan said.
“We are getting some progress. Now, it’s not nearly enough, it’s not fast enough, we’re way behind the curve,” he said, adding that the unified effort is making progress on getting respirators, masks and tests.
“It’s not a perfect situation. It’s going to take the federal, state and local governments all stepping up and doing whatever it takes regardless of who is supposed to do what,” he added.
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This f**khead is typical of your do nothing Democrats who wait until they’re in over their heads, and go crying for help when they realize it. Cuomo and Newsom are being diplomatic in their relations with the president, but they have an eye on the White House in 2024 so they want to look bipartisan and show their executive skills to the nation.
July 2019 Deblasio: Trump will not be welcomed back in NYC.
Mamma always said don’t burn bridges.
The Mayor is, always was, and ever shall be, an idiot. Except now he's a panicked, fear-mongering idiot. He ran for president because he doesn't want to be Mayor (but he doesn't want to be unemployed either). And now people are looking to him to actually lead.
Rough translation — I’m a clueless progressive twit looking for someone to blame for my incompetence.
The Italian mayors “hug a Chinese” policy may be slightly worse, but only slightly
What is wrong with O’Donnell? Seems a bit unhinged.
The idiots re voted him in. NYC needed a Rudy in times like this.
It does NOT GET LOWER tenths idiot! Trying to score political points off this situation. What the hell is Trump supposed to do that he is not doing.
This guy has more resources available to him than the federal government has in the north east. He has the largest group of police officers. He has world renowned hospitals and tons of social services everywhere. But he does not seem to be able to make them do anything. Because he is hated by his own city. He has tens of thousands of empty hotel rooms. He can turn some of them into hospitals. He has a multitude of city workers who can do whatever is needed. He has a state with a national guard.
This is what happens when you divide the city into groups that hate each other. They keep asking the government for more. Like spoiled babies they just cry. Even though they have the resources at their fingertips. West Virginia could argue they need help. New York can’t.
Perhaps New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has little understanding of the economy, of interrelationships between the supply chain and production of goods and services, of the time needed to ramp up. You cannot make a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. It does not work that way, de Blasio.
Has de Blasio have any experience in the private sector? Or, does he mirror the experience of Bernie Sanders?
Why,de Blasio? You are ACTING like a big enough demented a-hole for everyone.
This mayor is not a doer. He is a complainer. Its all he does. New Yorkers know their mayor sucks. The rest of the country looks at this guy who through out federal ICE and called himself a sanctuary city. Now when it comes time for him to act, his idea is to complain that someone else has to act. When he has the largest pile of manpower, and the largest budget of any city in the country. He doesn’t know how to use them.
I guess the party told him he wasn’t being hateful enough.
BTW, his wife is a FORMER lesbian, so much for the born-that-way theory.
Worked in Nicaragua. Does that count?
Putting it all on Trump! If people die, it’s Trump’s fault. If they live, congratulate a democrat.
I agree, they should be setting up road blocks to prevent anyone from leaving NY City.
No fan of Cuomo, but I respect how he has been handling the crisis.
Trump needs to get in the lab and discover that potion to cure us.
Not residents of NYC.
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