'We're not a shipping clerk': Trump tells governors to step up efforts to get medical supplies

[UpInArms]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump on Thursday put the onus on governors to obtain the critical equipment their states need to fight the coronavirus pandemic, telling reporters that the federal government is “not a shipping clerk” for the potentially life-saving supplies.

Appearing at the daily press briefing of the White House coronavirus task force, the president defended his decision to invoke the Defense Production Act — which would allow the administration to direct U.S. industry to ramp up production of emergency medical provisions — without actually triggering the statute.

“Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work, and they are doing a lot of this work,” Trump said. “The Federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. You know, we're not a shipping clerk.”

The president’s remarks amounted to a rebuke of governors’ recent pleas for more robust federal intervention amid the rapidly spreading outbreak, which they warn will soon overwhelm local health care systems if hospital beds, face masks and other necessities are not soon furnished in significantly greater numbers.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/03/19/trump-governors-coronavirus-medical-supplies-137658

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You are on your own ....

YO-YO at its lowest

[BigmanPigman]

1. You also are not a POTUS who can govern.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. the exec branch does logistics all the time, the amoral pig is the Head Shipping Clerk.

[truthisfreedom]

3. Governors plead for assistance, 45 insults them.

He’s still on his game show playing asshole.

[DENVERPOPS]

15. A number of Governors

have already realized that their state isn't getting any funds from the Feds and are stepping up to take charge in their states, despite trump, and doing all kinds of things to help their state. Washington State and Colorado to name a few.......

[TeamPooka]

4. Trump isn't a shipping clerk, he's a glorified slumlord.

[EarthFirst]

5. I wish he'd speak in the vulgarities he's know to use with WH staff...

...and just tells how he really feels: “Go fuck yourselves...”

[keithbvadu2]

6. Don't we have Pence the Czar of Coronavirus?

Don't we have Pence the Czar of Coronavirus?

Guess he's just in charge of hiding inconvenient facts that don't make Trump look good.

[SergeStorms]

13. That was last week.

I think Jared is in charge now, if I'm not mistaken, but who the hell knows anymore. Whoever it is isn't getting the damned job done.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Baseball has a stat called WAR, wins above replacement.

It is supposed to tell you how many more games you'd win with a specific player over a replacement player of average skills.

When all is said and done, I wonder what Trump's DAR would be...Deaths Above Replacement.

How many more people will die, because of that cowardly scumbag, than would have died if there had been a president of even average competence in office?

[jeffreyi]

8. Great.

No coordination. Clusterdoodle. Well, they wanted to kill the federal government, so...here we are.

[not fooled]

9. Doing the bidding of the RWNJ billionaires

who don't want the Federal government to get involved. What's a few million dead peasants vs. achieving their goal of crippling the Federal government so they don't have to pay taxes or be regulated?

[riversedge]

10. Cruelness is built into the stinking #TrumpSwamp

[RobinA]

11. Say That

a couple more times, only louder, ya ass. Ever hear of the Berlin Airlift, skippy? No, I suppose not.

[NYC Liberal]

12. But he wants states to act as border patrol and enforce federal immigration laws.

[EndlessWire]

14. What an asshole.

He's trying to shift responsibility and avoid blame. Sorry you can't be bothered, Orange Turd. You know he's got his safety net nailed down. The rest of us are out in the cold.

Welp, comes November, you are history. Along with your evil spawn and most, if not all, of your associates. Here's hoping karma gets you.

[duforsure]

16. Since he's refusing help in this greatest time of need in a National Emergency

By refusing to do his job he should be asked to resign at once. Since he wants to take zero responsibility for anything he's shown he's incapable of doing it now, and instead continues to drag his feet ,and hamper a response. a situation HE made worse by refusing to respond when he knew what was happening. There should be calls for him to resign now. He'll just get worse with doing this too.

[truthisfreedom]

17. Translation: I'm here to rape the federal government so I can hand the spoils over to my rich donors

so fuck you, you get nothing.

[steve2470]

18. Thank god we didn't have this ASSHOLE as President during World War II....

"Oh, Nazi subs off Long Island and in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic Coast ? We are not your shipping clerk"

We'd all be speaking German and saluting the Nazi flag if he had been President.