NEW YORK, April 18 — The US coronavirus crisis took a sharp political turn yesterday as President Donald Trump lashed out at four Democratic governors over their handling of the pandemic after having conceded that states bear ultimate control of restrictions to contain the outbreak. The...
A variety of signs in support of President Donald Trump are placed across a front yard in a residential neighbourhood, amid an outbreak of coronavirus disease, in Commerce Township, Michigan April 17, 2020. — Reuters pic
Michigan has become a particular focus of agitation to relax social-distancing rules that rank among the strictest in the nation after Governor Gretchen Whitmer, widely seen as a potential running mate for presumed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, extended them through the end of April. Trump also took renewed aim at one of his favourite political foils, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a tweet suggesting that his state, the US epicentre of the outbreak, had asked for too much assistance that was never fully used.
In the end he acknowledged it was up to the governors to decide when and how to relax the stay-at-home orders they themselves had imposed since last month, presenting his guidelines as recommendations. “Governor Cuomo should spend more time ‘doing’ and less time ‘complaining’. Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking!” Trump’s post said.
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