Yesterday, Trump told his daily campaign rally crowd of reporters (disguised as the COVID-19 daily update) that during the past night he had had a "very good phone call" with the Chinese President, Xi Jinping. They spent an hour talking about the virus and nothing else.
Today he thinks he's talking about putting NY, NJ, and Connecticut under a state wide quarantine. Of course he has no Constitutional right to do such, but the CDC can and he owns them just like any dictator owns his govt agencies. XI did just that in China. Brought in the military and put every citizen under strict house arrest.
Tonight it's no quarantine, but directed a "strong travel advisory" on the 3 states for the next 14 days. Cuomo said that would amount to "federal declaration of war." He also said Trump never mentioned it to him in a morning phone call they had. He believed it would be illegal, economically catastrophic. preposterous and shortsighted when other parts of the country are seeing cases rise too. "If you start walling off areas all across the country, it will be totally bizarre, counterproductive, anti-American, anti-social. he added that locking down the nation's financial capital would shock the stock market and "paralyze the economy" at a time when Trump is itching to get the economy back on track.
Just another example of how the orange turd just takes the last piece of advice he's received from one of his cronies and walks it out there without actually running it by anyone who actually understands constitutional law and what the consequences of his actions would be. This idea came form Xi who did it and Governor Rick Scott from Florida whose state is fast becoming another hot spot partly because he won't take a stand to limit his state's population's behavior, but mayors like Miami for instance finally did. Scott wanted the quarantine to stop New Yorkers from bringing it to his state since so many own condos and winter homes there. Scott is the same governor who allowed the college Spring break kids from all over the country to fill up the state's hotels, restaurants, and beaches for the sake of the state's economy before folding under state and national scrutiny. Now, it's the fault of those kids that his state is in trouble because you know virus bugs don't travel the world and enter his state in a 1000 ways. So, keep New Yorkers out. Yes, travel of NY residents to Florida is a bad idea, but so is travel of folks from anywhere to his state unhealthy, both for themselves and and his state's citizens. Like Trump, the Republican mantra is to always find someone to blame for any problems they might have and then declare them the enemy and attack, attack, attack and their followers follow along like sheep.
See Trump is under incredible scrutiny and criticism for his mishandling of this calamity from the get go. So, he has been doing everything in his bag of tricks to divert the blame to anyone or anything else. He throws one piece of fecal matter after another at the wall and hopes some will stick and it has not been working. In fact, it's just digging his hole deeper and deeper. 90% of the nations mayors who responded to a nationwide poll reported they lack sufficient test kits, face masks, other PPEs, and medical workers and 85% said they didn't have enough ventilators for their hospitals.
"Despite their best efforts, most cities do not have and cannot obtain adequate equipment and supplies needed to protect their residents. This is a life-threatening crisis that will continue unless the federal government does everything in its power to help us safeguard our first responders and health care workers - our first line of defense - and the millions." This from the U.S Conference of Mayors.
For example Every city will tell you how many masks they have and how many they will need. Louisville's mayor said his city had 255,000 and needed 1,000,000. All the cities report similar on what they have and the counts are way below their expected needs. Trump trumpeted with pride that they had shipped 9,000,000 masks. Coumo's hospitals, police force, fire fighters, and medical first responders burn through that number in a couple days.
In response Trump is skeptical of their demands. "I have a feeling the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they're going to be."
This man has proclaimed himself to be a war time president. Thank God he was never the man when we were actually fighting the big World Wars because we would have lost. This man is so unaware of just what is happening to his citizenry as he is still more concerned with his ego and his election prospects than any other occurrence on this earth.
