Trump to New York: Drop Dead

[Zorro]

So it’s essentially come to this: President Trump is treating each of our 50 states as individual contestants on “The Apprentice” — pitting them against one another for scarce resources, daring them to duke it out — rather than mobilizing a unified national response to a pandemic.

If that’s the case, this is the episode where New York loses. The coronavirus is whipping through the state, especially New York City, at a terrifying rate. We need personnel, ventilators and personal protective equipment, stat.

But Trump’s response has been the same as President Gerald Ford’s in 1975, when our city, faltering on the brink of insolvency, begged Washington for help and was brutally rebuffed, a moment forever enshrined in The Daily News’s headline “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.”

Now Trump is telling us the same. Literally.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/opinion/trump-nyc-coronavirus.html

[patricia92243]

1. I thought the headline said Trump drops dead - too bad I missread.

[Uben]

2. NY to Trump....

,,,"What kinda bird don't fly?"

[33taw]

4. I hope that NYC takes over Trump Tower to house the homeless during the crisis.

[lees1975]

7. Great idea

Put the worst cases in his personal apartment

[lagomorph777]

8. +1 Rename it "Corona Real"

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Also, if there is a possibility of fraud (and there seems to be, in his vastly understating ...

values of properties for taxes (vs. a different figure for loans from the banks)), the buildings should be seized so the state can still recover. All of the buildings and assets seized. In the rest of the country, they put tax liens on properties.

[Aristus]

6. You first, fuckhead...