Coronavirus: Trump says states' 'insatiable appetite' for safety equipment is political despite medics pleading for more

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After pleas from health workers across the country as critically needed medical equipment diminishes, Donald Trump says that states and hospitals have "insatiable appetites" and are "never satisfied" with the federal government response, which began sending some relief to hard-hit areas during the coronavirus pandemic.

He said on Twitter: "Massive amounts of medical supplies, even hospitals and medical centres, are being delivered directly to states and hospitals by the Federal Government. Some have insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?). Remember, we are a backup for them."

The president said that the "complainers" should have been "stocked up and ready long before this crisis hit" despite his assurance to Americans for weeks that the federal government was acting to combat the outbreak.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 43496.html
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Those annoying healthcare workers and their INSATIABLE appetite for saving lives and not contracting a virus while working 🙄 where do they get off?

Perhaps they’d be able to be satiated had he spent the buffer time between the first case in January and now using the powers of the federal government to make or procure PPE and equipment, rather than downplaying, golfing and rallying.

Elsewhere, he criticized Schumer and said he “should have pushed harder” - the only problem with that logic are his own tweets.

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This is so disturbing. How can our President take such a dismissive attitude when medical staff are now intubating their co-workers who get infected from lack of PPE. The Federal Government is not a "backup" during a national emergency. They should be leading.
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MonarchMom wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:11 pm This is so disturbing. How can our President take such a dismissive attitude when medical staff are now intubating their co-workers who get infected from lack of PPE. The Federal Government is not a "backup" during a national emergency. They should be leading.
Dh has actually banned me from watching the daily briefings unless Dr. Fauci is speaking. He's the only person who seems to even have a gdmn clue about how bad things are and could get. Trump still pretty much lives in fantasy land and is focused on the wrong things. It's maddening.
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Dumbfuck doesn't seem to understand that those items are DISPOSABLE and meant to be changed between patients.
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californiagirl83 wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:16 pm
MonarchMom wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:11 pm This is so disturbing. How can our President take such a dismissive attitude when medical staff are now intubating their co-workers who get infected from lack of PPE. The Federal Government is not a "backup" during a national emergency. They should be leading.
Dh has actually banned me from watching the daily briefings unless Dr. Fauci is speaking. He's the only person who seems to even have a gdmn clue about how bad things are and could get. Trump still pretty much lives in fantasy land and is focused on the wrong things. It's maddening.
Some stations are removing the Trump part and just putting the doctors and other experts on live. Too much disinformation and talking about himself. He gives a daily report on all the compliments he’s getting. Gives himself an A+ like there’s something wrong with him.
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Never satisfied? Like the medical field isn’t struggling to provide care for a massive amount of people sick or dying?

He is so inhumane and selfish. It’s deplorable that anybody...much less a President can watch what’s going on and sees nothing at all wrong with making such a horrific accusation like this.

Unbelievable.
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californiagirl83 wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:16 pm
MonarchMom wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:11 pm This is so disturbing. How can our President take such a dismissive attitude when medical staff are now intubating their co-workers who get infected from lack of PPE. The Federal Government is not a "backup" during a national emergency. They should be leading.
Dh has actually banned me from watching the daily briefings unless Dr. Fauci is speaking. He's the only person who seems to even have a gdmn clue about how bad things are and could get. Trump still pretty much lives in fantasy land and is focused on the wrong things. It's maddening.
I’ve always taken Trump in doses but I can’t listen to him speak at all now.
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SouthernIslander wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:18 pm
californiagirl83 wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:16 pm
MonarchMom wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:11 pm This is so disturbing. How can our President take such a dismissive attitude when medical staff are now intubating their co-workers who get infected from lack of PPE. The Federal Government is not a "backup" during a national emergency. They should be leading.
Dh has actually banned me from watching the daily briefings unless Dr. Fauci is speaking. He's the only person who seems to even have a gdmn clue about how bad things are and could get. Trump still pretty much lives in fantasy land and is focused on the wrong things. It's maddening.
I’ve always taken Trump in doses but I can’t listen to him speak at all now.
I gave him a chance when he started to take it seriously and had the experts up there with him. But it didn’t take long before you could actually see him twitching from the effort to keep it serious and keep it about the virus and not him. Disappointed once again.
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Lemons wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:33 pm
SouthernIslander wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:18 pm
californiagirl83 wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:16 pm

Dh has actually banned me from watching the daily briefings unless Dr. Fauci is speaking. He's the only person who seems to even have a gdmn clue about how bad things are and could get. Trump still pretty much lives in fantasy land and is focused on the wrong things. It's maddening.
I’ve always taken Trump in doses but I can’t listen to him speak at all now.
I gave him a chance when he started to take it seriously and had the experts up there with him. But it didn’t take long before you could actually see him twitching from the effort to keep it serious and keep it about the virus and not him. Disappointed once again.
I couldn’t even do that. It’s sad but I expect the worse out of him and his mouth. Especially now. This is disgustingly low, even for him. No human respect for anyone but himself.
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