Trump Shares What the ‘Scariest Day’ of His Life Has Been Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak
President Donald Trump is revealing what he considered to be the “scariest day” of his life. While addressing the nation during the White House Coronavirus press briefing on Tuesday, Trump recalled the day he learned…
President Donald Trump is revealing what he considered to be the “scariest day” of his life.
While addressing the nation during the White House Coronavirus press briefing on Tuesday, Trump recalled the day he learned the United States was “short of hundreds of thousands of ventilators.”
“The scariest day of my life was about a month ago, when after a long day of meetings my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators — that we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators,” Trump said.
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Trump went on to criticize the Obama administration for the system he claims his administration inherited. Then, he took aim at the sitting governors, accusing them of making unrealistic demands of the federal government.
“This is the system we inherited,” the president said, adding, “I had governors requesting unreasonable sums that the federal government just didn’t have and, you look at the states … The states were not prepared. I knew that every person who needed a ventilator, and didn’t get one, would die.”
Trump’s remarks at the coronavirus press briefing followed a string of reports about the president’s clash with multiple Democratic governors.
On Tuesday, the president clashed with governors over reopening states, as previously reported on IJR. Although Trump claimed he had the “total” authority to reopen states, some experts pointed out the flaw in his statement, noting the 10th Amendment.