House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) piled on her criticism of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis during a press conference on Thursday.
After railing against Trump’s decision-making on COVID-19, Pelosi compared Trump to “a man who refuses to ask for directions” when it comes to the pandemic.
“All of the answers are there — the scientists have the answers. We know that testing, tracing, treating, distancing, masking, sanitation can stop the spread of this virus,” Pelosi said. “And yet the President continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us.”
Pelosi’s remarks come as the CDC reported that as of Tuesday, COVID-19 cases have surged nationally with three states each reporting more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in the last seven days.
The House speaker has also spent the past week blasting the Trump administration and Republicans on several issues related to its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
On Sunday, Pelosi called out Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ interview on CNN pushing for the reopening of schools amid surging cases of the coronavirus nationwide for being a “malfeasance dereliction of duty.”
Pelosi also went after Republicans the day after for refusing extra spending on COVID-19 relief efforts as Congress works to hammer out a new bipartisan package addressing the dire economic effects of the pandemic.
Watch Pelosi’s remarks below:
‘[Trump] is like the man who refuses to ask for directions. All of the answers are there’ — Speaker Pelosi blasted Trump for continuing ‘down the wrong path’ with COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/Dw1miPpT8q
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The driving directions line is gold. Right on the money, a little funny, easy to understand. Something for the Biden campaign quiver.
You can say OMG she’s totally trivializing the pathology but you probably aren’t saying that because it’s a perfect summation and never mind the pathology, it portrays him as the kind of brain-dead macho buffoon he exists to be a parody of. This is her master-stroke so far. Study this, Rick Wilson. Learn from a genius of the genre.
Hell, he keeps ignoring all the “Road Closed” signs he keeps passing.
Not to mention “Bridge Out.” Also “Witches Castle 1 mile I’d turn back if I were you!”
Sure, there’s a lot to work with, but she’s so good at making him small.
Better.