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@realDonaldTrump
Governors, get your states testing programs & apparatus perfected. Be ready, big things are happening. No excuses! The Federal Government is there to help. We are testing more than any country in the World. Also, gear up with Face Masks!
2:43 PM · Apr 12, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
SouthernCal_Dem
(852 posts)The buck stops with anyone but Trump. Hes laying the groundwork for blaming states.
Did anyone expect anything else from a failed frozen steak salesman?
Americas reputation is in tatters.
Thanks, GOP.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)while thwarting every effort by the governors to protect their citizens!
Dump needs to stop PIRATING medical equipment from states! 🤬
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)dalton99a
(81,510 posts)Chainfire
(17,539 posts)with the virus. Who knows what new disaster he will make to occupy his time.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)All the sacrifice, all the progress, all the stuff that people have done in the last six weeks can be undone if Needy Amin decides that he's done getting bumped out of the headlines by Covid-19.
TexasTowelie
(112,204 posts)1) Iran
2) Venezuela
3) Nancy Pelosi
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)rest assured, there is plenty going on, and plenty of resources and manpower for, other activities at home and abroad that are making the distraction of our virus crisis useful to him and the GOP.
Do some searching on the power grabs and foreign operations, meddling, sanctions, etc.
Chainfire
(17,539 posts)We may as will get into a shooting war with Iran.
Jarqui
(10,125 posts)is pirating PPE and ventilators?
How Trump turned ventilators into a form of patronage
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215578/trump-ventilators-coronavirus-cory-gardner-colorado-jared-polis-patronage
Trump is playing a disgusting political game with our lives
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-editorial-trump-gardner-polis-supplies/
Lots of reports beyond the above
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ppe-and-ventilators-becomes-patronage-in-trumps-hands
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/michigan-governor-medical-supplies-cnntv/index.html
Florida got more than they needed for example.
doc03
(35,338 posts)polls going down the more we see him. So he needs his fix talking to his cult.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Chainfire
(17,539 posts)demand worship, praise and adulation.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)diva77
(7,643 posts)offices into hotels, book government meetings at one's own resorts, negotiate percentages from vital medical equipment sales, negotiate a cut from refrigerator truck sales, implement various forms of revenge on critics, etc. No time for leadership during a pandemic!
doc03
(35,338 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)Not enough lies, deception, shade-throwing, bragging or calls for adoration to be from him........
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)If it were up to Trump, we would stop testing immediately. Can't have accurate numbers - might show his incompetence.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)what the fuck does all this mean
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You are doing NOTHING!