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A Navy hospital ship will deploy to New York City this weekend to alleviate the onslaught of coronavirus patients filling the area's hospitals, President Trump told reporters Thursday.
Trump will travel to Norfolk, Va., on Saturday to bid farewell to the USNS Comfort. The ship is expected to dock in New York on Monday, roughly a week ahead of schedule after it had to undergo repairs.
"Ill kiss it goodbye," Trump said during a coronavirus briefing on Thursday. "Its in Virginia, as you know, and I will go and well be waving together because I suspect the media will be following."
The trip to Norfolk will be Trump's first time leaving Washington, D.C., in a little more than two weeks. He has remained largely hunkered down in the White House as the virus has spread across the country.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/489757-trump-to-travel-to-see-naval-hospital-ship-deploy-to-nyc
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)JHB
(37,128 posts)Or is it just getting a move on empty because Trump said he was sending it?
Botany
(70,288 posts)"I suspect the media will be following." R you fucking kidding me? This is not about the
media God Damn it! This is about millions of Americans getting sick and maybe dying because
of the biggest fuck in our history by Donald Trump.
This shit did not need to have happened.
malaise
(267,799 posts)It's all reality TV to this MoFo
msongs
(67,193 posts)crazylikafox
(2,738 posts)Will he go onboard to give a mission accomplished speech while hes at it?
Baclava
(12,047 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)He couldn't care any less about the ship, the crew or the people they are going to help.