on a day where dead bodies were being
stacked up in store immed in detroit and
more than 1500 americans died of the
corona virus
a furious president trump opened his
press conference not with a reference to
the virus a fake newspaper and they read
fake stories but a pre-prepared attack
on the media and a video to ram home the
point that he alone had acted early to
thought the virus it's true On January 2
31st he did ban non-americans entering
from China but in countless appearances
after Donald Trump made it patently
clear he wasn't taking the threat of
coded 19 seriously enough like this
rally in New Hampshire On February the
10th where he blithely promised this the
virus they're working hard looks like by
April you know in theory when it gets a
little warmer miraculously goes away and
reassured this and on March the 6th as
he told the offices of the Centers for
Disease Control he was still making
comparisons with the flu if somebody is
old and in a weakened state for real but
they're susceptible to the common flu
when challenged yesterday as to why he
squandered the month of February instead
of preparing he lashed out his press
conferences are usually cantankerous
Affairs but this one was especially
heated and in fact will give you a list
what we did in fact part of who was up
there we did a lot you know you're a
fake you know that your whole network
the way you cover it is fake the
President had arrived furious at
comments by his top diseases expert
doctor Falchi who over the weekend
admitted that more lives could have been
saved had the country been shut down
earlier a chastened fout she was made to
publicly retract his comments as the
president looked on everything I do is
voluntarily please don't even imply that
and then there was this extraordinary
claim in response to governor's saying
it was their decision not his to reopen
their states the president of the United
States has the authority to do what the
president has the authority to do which
is very powerful the president of the
United States calls the shots
but this was the governor of New York's
response this morning what the president
said last night it was a breaking of the
Constitution he basically declared
himself king Trump right look the
governors are in charge because the
president put them in charge he's right
as recently as Sunday the President
reiterated that governor's had to get
their own affairs in order but as we've
come to understand with Donald Trump
much what he says one day doesn't
necessarily hold to the next well in his
daily press conference earlier the
governor of New York who saw there
Andrew Cuomo insisted that he wasn't
interested in fighting President Trump
or that he would fight with all his
might to maintain the safety of New
Yorkers it's for that reason that
governor's like him are insisting that
they will reopen their economies
according to their own timetables not to
the timetables set by Donald Trump for
when he wants to see the whole of the US
economy opened up by the beginning of
May to open too soon Andrew Cuomo warned
we could lose all the progress we've
made he said in one single week he also
wanted to open up any economy we will
need to see millions upon millions of
testing and tracing kits be made
available and simply right now they are
not available in New York he said for
one was broke he said I do not have two
nickels to rub together I'm telling you
this warning he gauge because presumably
the challenges faced by him in New York
will also be the same challenges faced
by big cities across the UK as they try
gradually to open up their economies to