New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) criticized the Trump administration for being “in denial” about the coronavirus pandemic as cases surge in several cities during an interview on MSNBC Sunday.
Asked by MSNBC’s Chuck Todd about HHS Sec. Alex Azar suggesting earlier Sunday that the country’s contact-tracing problem in the South is on the states, Cuomo pushed back on the notion of a “second surge.”
“We’re worried about a second wave,” Cuomo said. “I think we’re still in the first wave, and this is a continuation of the first wave, and it was a failed effort to stop the first wave in the country. And as you pointed out, New York is in a totally different place.”
Cuomo then railed against the Trump administration for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the first briefing in nearly two months from the White House Coronavirus Task Force on Friday when Vice President Mike Pence tried to spin good news as several states hit daily records exceeding those first set in states like New York in March.
“If you listen to what (Azar) said, if you listen to what the President says, what they said at the White House briefing, they’re saying what they said three months ago,” Cuomo said. “They’re basically in denial about the problem. They don’t want to tell the American people the truth.”
On Thursday, Cuomo ripped into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and other Republican governors for “playing politics with the virus” in light of a spike in coronavirus cases in their states.
Watch Cuomo’s remarks below:
Cuomo says the Trump administration is “in denial” about the COVID-19 pandemic pic.twitter.com/vHnn4Pkore
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Governor Cuomo accurately boils down the federal government’s response to the states as “you’re on your own”. Or, in other words in language any New-Yorker would understand: Trump to states -drop dead.
Trump, Pence, Azar and the rest of the current mal-administration refuse to accept the reality of the COVID pandemic because if they do so they will be forced to acknowledge that they have done nothing to slow its progress, much less to end this catastrophe. They are all completely ineffectual.
And now, they are again trying to kill the Affordable Care Act.
Trump’s being “in denial” is phase two of his efforts. He had to get phase one (the Kult) in place, first.
Most of the “denials” are done by them: they are the ones freely offering themselves up to the altar of Trump.
When in Tulsa AND Arizona last week, Trump was not denying a DAMNED thing about the danger of COVID TO HIM…he kept his fucking distance.
Whatever “Trumpism” is, the actual believers are the Trumpers.
Trump believes in the availability of bodies to be used up.
The Trump Administration IS in denial.
About his abysmal re-elections odds.
At the local pool in Westchester County. Masks in evidence everywhere. Everyone keeping their distance. I guess if people from Fla.,Texas and Arizona keep out we are ok.