Trump Accuses Michigan AG Of ‘Stupidity’ For Criticizing His Refusal To Wear Mask During Plant Tour

President Donald Trump points while taking questions during a news conference at the White House on February 26, 2020. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump attacked Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in a series of furious tweets late Thursday after she criticized him for not wearing a mask during his tour at a Ford plant in her state earlier that day.

“Do nothing A.G. of the Great State of Michigan, Dana Nessel, should not be taking her anger and stupidity out on Ford Motor–they might get upset with you and leave the state, like so many other companies have–until I came along and brought business back to Michigan,” Trump tweeted. “JOBS!”

Trump also accused her of “viciously threatening” Ford Motor Company over “the fact that I inspected a Ventilator plant without a mask,” presumably referring to Nessel declaring that he won’t be welcomed back to Michigan after he ignored Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Ford’s mask requirement amid COVID-19.

“Not their fault, & I did put on a mask. No wonder many auto companies left Michigan, until I came along!” the President tweeted.

Trump was seen wearing a mask at one point during the tour but refused to keep it on the entire time because he “didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”

Nessel slammed Trump in a CNN interview after his visit, calling him a “petulant child who refuses to follow the rules.”

“He’s conveying the worst possible message to people who cannot afford to be on the receiving end of terrible misinformation,” she said. “And it’s very, very concerning.”

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  1. DiJiT has another sissy-hissy-fit.

  2. This makes you wonder just what stupid stunt Trump could pull during a visit and his hosts would just shrug their shoulders and keep mum. If he had told Ford he was going to tour their facility in leopard print leotards with the ass cheeks cut out they’d have gone along with it. Because President.

  3. Going on a tirade because someone said something mean about you is a very non-petulant child thing to do! Presidential!

  4. But he won’t look her in the eye and say that. The dolt has a lot of fans, cultists, really in Michigan. More than we’d like to admit and they will hang on the creature’s every word and get up at 3:00 AM in the morning to vote foe him. This will a close fought thing.

    Only once chance left.

    I cite that column—published under the headline “Calm Down. We’ll Be Fine No Matter Who Wins”—not to single it out, but precisely because it was so un- singular. The keepers of the institutions could imagine Trump testing the system. They could not imagine the system failing the test.

    And yet fail it did. The story of the Trump years is a story of institutions that failed. The Department of Justice failed. The inspectors general failed. Congressional oversight failed. The national-security establishment failed. The courts failed. Trump has done things that no previous American president would ever have dared, that no previous president sank low enough even to imagine. Sometimes he was stopped, more often not. But whether stopped or not in any particular case, he has never ceased pressing ahead to do even worse the next time.

    The only check remaining is that of the 2020 ballot box. Not Trump alone, but the great political party behind him, is working to ensure that election is as unfree and unfair as possible. In that effort, they have mobilized the active or tacit support of millions of Americans.

  5. Exactly, acting petulant after being called a petulant child kind of proves the point

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