LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – President Donald Trump and Governor Gretchen Whitmer are continuing to point fingers and blame each other amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The president told Michiganders to “tell your governor to open up your state” while speaking to a packed and mostly mask-less crowd in Saginaw County Thursday evening.
This comes after the governor criticized President Trump for what she said is a lack of a national strategy to combat COVID-19. During her press briefing earlier that day she said, “I think the biggest enemy of the state right now is the misinformation that’s coming out of the head of state…the biggest threat to the American people, is the American president right now.”
“We learned from some revelations from Bob Woodward that the president admitted in a tape this past February that he knew that COVID-19 passes through the air,” Whitmer added, “I think this failure to act has cost so many lives, it has sent our economy into a tailspin, and honestly it’s just devastating to hear that when we have been working so hard to save lives.”
However, on Twitter Michigan Republican Party Chair Laura Cox said, “@GovWhitmer, your failures are what puts Michiganders in danger.”
Earlier Whitmer explained how she was worried about the potential spread of the coronavirus due to the crowds at Trump’s rally in Freeland. Trump called out the governor during his rally and joked that he’d be angry with Michigan if he didn’t beat Joe Biden in the battleground state.
