New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made it clear today that he is not here for Trump’s flippant response to his state’s desperate need for ventilators amid their massive outbreak of COVID-19.
During a press conference today, Cuomo — who’s trying to wrangle in one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States as the country now takes the top spot in the world in confirmed cases — responded to Trump’s insinuation that local governments, New York specifically, were fabricating their need for thousands of more ventilators to combat the influx in critical patients suffering from coronavirus.
“Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion, but I don’t operate here on opinion, I operate on facts and on data and on numbers and on projections,” Cuomo issued in his scathing response when questioned about Trump’s comments from the night before during his presser this afternoon.
Last night, Trump appeared for a segment with Fox News’ Sean Hannity and appeared as though he were playing a game of “How Many Governors Can I Talk Shit About Before My Time Is Up?”
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“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” Trump stated of Cuomo’s request for more ventilators for his state. “You know, you go into major hospitals, sometimes they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'”
During the presser, the New York governor didn’t call Trump out by name but made it crystal clear that he has and intends to continue to focus on cold, hard facts and data while insinuating (rightfully so) that Trump was basing his statements off of opinion alone.
Cuomo went on to explain that projections from Cornell Weill, the CDC, and McKinsey paint a dismal picture that will require thousands of ventilators that the state of New York currently does not have — after his statement earlier this week claiming that the state needs 30,000 ventilators and only has 11,000, ultimately calling on the president to finally invoke the Defense Production Act, something thousands have been pushing for despite Trump’s reluctance to do so.
Cuomo was not the only governor to find themselves of the receiving end of Trump’s ire during his Hannity interview last night, as Michigan Governor Gretchen Esther Whitmer also wound up chastised on live TV only to find out today that vendors are allegedly “being told” not to send supplies to her state after Donald’s public outburst.
You can watch the clip here:
Gov. Cuomo responds to Trump saying NY doesn’t need extra ventilators: “I operate on facts and on data and on numbers and on projections. ” pic.twitter.com/JT3KvnplCX
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) March 27, 2020
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