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brooklynite

(94,729 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 06:26 AM Mar 2020

Illinois gov says White House staffer 'yelled' at him over tweet blasting federal response to airpor

Source: The Hill

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said Sunday that a White House staffer called and “yelled” at him over the weekend after he criticized the federal government in a Saturday tweet for crowds at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

Pritzker called for the government to increase U.S. customs officers at airports in an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after President Trump's order for travel to be suspended from Europe this week over the spread of coronavirus led to chaos at the Chicago airport. He also called for the federal government to increase the number of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to be present at airports.

“They did neither of those. So last night, as people were flooding into O’Hare airport, they were stuck in a small area, hundreds and hundreds of people, and that’s exactly what you don’t want in this pandemic. So we had that problem, and then today, it’s going to be even worse. There are a larger number of flights with more people coming, and they seem completely unprepared,” Pritzker said Sunday.

“So you have not gotten any reassurance from customs officials that they’re going to have more folks on hand today?” “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd asked the governor.

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/487731-illinois-gov-says-white-house-staffer-yelled-at-him-over-tweet

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Illinois gov says White House staffer 'yelled' at him over tweet blasting federal response to airpor (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2020 OP
Hey, J.B.? bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #1
tRump still thinks this is mostly a public relations crisis. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #12
I lived through TMI bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #14
WH staffers reported to scream at press, Governors. The standard trump incompetence coverup empedocles Mar 2020 #2
Which (unqualified) WH staffer was this, I wonder? Scarsdale Mar 2020 #3
Too bad he didn't identify which useless staffer. TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 #4
Exacly! ananda Mar 2020 #11
They fired people and banned transgender soldiers via tweet, but do not criticize them via tweet ck4829 Mar 2020 #5
The Keystone Cops. No planning, no crisis reaction, LuckyLib Mar 2020 #6
The malevolent Keystone Cops. scarletlib Mar 2020 #10
IF the governors say a single thing DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #23
you don't fuck with Pritzker, he is not the type to take it especially from incompetent fools beachbumbob Mar 2020 #7
He should have treated it like a ROBO call. Ask who am i speaking two TWICE no response HANG UP! usaf-vet Mar 2020 #20
Trump the psychopath has surrounded himself with other psychopaths..... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #8
a hundred? DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #15
I was thinking of his immediate circle of staff and.... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #21
Agreed EG DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #22
The staffer needs to be identified. LiberalFighter Mar 2020 #9
Out the staffer on the Senate floor SallyHemmings Mar 2020 #13
The staffers DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #16
Its the only way the designated sacrificial aides get to work out their frustrations ... marble falls Mar 2020 #19
I agree and fired rockfordfile Mar 2020 #30
The depth of the incompetence of this administration goes deeper by the minute. PaulRevere08 Mar 2020 #17
Take it as a compliment, Magoo48 Mar 2020 #18
I hope he yelled back. hamsterjill Mar 2020 #24
Something like that Casablanca cafe scene? raging moderate Mar 2020 #25
Amen! hamsterjill Mar 2020 #28
The Bulbous Baphomet Newest Reality Mar 2020 #26
Don The Cardboard Corona.... magicarpet Mar 2020 #27
K & R !!! Progressive Jones Mar 2020 #32
I would have either recorded the rant Miguelito Loveless Mar 2020 #29
Trump can't handle the fact that O'Hare is far more Progressive Jones Mar 2020 #31

bucolic_frolic

(43,289 posts)
14. I lived through TMI
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 08:42 AM
Mar 2020

'There is no immediate threat to public health'. I've had a well-tuned ear for corporate lies ever since.

They have tactics. Never directly answer the question, just appear to answer it. Answer another question. Shift time components deftly.
Deny, deflect, disinform. Give plausible deniability. They're all good at it. DeWine of OH especially. Pence too. Trump is actually not very good at it. He just blurts non sequitors, mumbles, repeats. He's usually had others doing it for him.

TMI. Three Mile Island.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
3. Which (unqualified) WH staffer was this, I wonder?
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 06:58 AM
Mar 2020

Stephen "I love Nazis" Miller? Stephanie "Hold my drink" Grisham? Larry "Anyone got coke?" Kudlow? Maleria "I really don't care. Do U?" tRump? The new chief of staff, who has not shown up for work yet? tRump's caddy, who wants to keep his job? How DARE J.B. Pritzker attempt to do a good job, and show up our absentee president? This fiasco has gone on for way too long. Beyond disgusted. Can this country survive until next year, with the present airheads running the show? If this fiasco continues, it may even make Ivanka and Donald Jr. re-think running for the WH in 2024. What a loss THAT will be, eh?

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
6. The Keystone Cops. No planning, no crisis reaction,
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 07:48 AM
Mar 2020

no idea what any decision will mean for those on the front lines. Governors and Mayors are going to have to raise hell —no idea whether it will do any good.

DENVERPOPS

(8,844 posts)
23. IF the governors say a single thing
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 09:41 AM
Mar 2020

Trump won't send them the Federal Emergency money.........

Any and every transaction he and the Republican Senators do, is a Quid Pro Quo or extortion...............

Look no further (farther?) than the California Wildfire conflagration. Look at how little money he sent and how late in the game he sent it.

usaf-vet

(6,207 posts)
20. He should have treated it like a ROBO call. Ask who am i speaking two TWICE no response HANG UP!
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 09:09 AM
Mar 2020

All Democratic Governors should respond the same.

The one alternative to hanging up. Say "PUT YOUR COMPLAINT IN WRITING" my staff will give you the mailing address. CLICK!!

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
8. Trump the psychopath has surrounded himself with other psychopaths.....
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 07:51 AM
Mar 2020

so they can comfort each other bragging about their latest hissy fit or new dose of cruelty.

Like a hundred Bevis and Butt-Heads.

The entire building needs to be evacuated, disinfected and new sane occupants installed.

We're on it.............

DENVERPOPS

(8,844 posts)
15. a hundred?
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 08:45 AM
Mar 2020

There are 250 in the House and Senate alone............add another couple of hundred grossly biased and incompetent judges that he and Mitch have been shoving through at lightening speed, plus his entire cabinet and administration......

Probably more like 1000 Bevis and Buttheads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Corporation CEO's are known for surrounding themselves with executives that are incompetent so they don't feel threatened.
They also surround themselves with supreme ass lickers, and a few good looking women that don't have brains.....(Think of Trump's women! Women whose brains, if they ever had any, that are being clogged with silicone leaking from elsewhere in their bodies, or the drifting of botox from the face and other places......

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
21. I was thinking of his immediate circle of staff and....
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 09:20 AM
Mar 2020

envisioning their little huddles around coffee pots and meetings to brag about their latest evil escapades. Then, go brag to T-daddy about it.

It's a self-reinforcing mass of shit-slinging and we can see it from their tweets and actions.....

Trump in a staff meeting: "OK, let's go around the table and each of you tell us what you've done to help dismantle the government and destroy the American dream." All replies are documented.

DENVERPOPS

(8,844 posts)
22. Agreed EG
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 09:34 AM
Mar 2020

I is nothing short of appalling to watch the never ending amount of self aggrandizing rhetoric that spews from Trump and his minions mouths.....

Trump is the worst. First he says a total complete lie about any topic, and then for five minutes he tells you how wonderful he is to have done it..........and his groupies hang on every word like he is their God.

I can't help thinking about what one of his groupies said this weekend. "Obama is at fault for this whole virus thing.....Obama should have been stock piling the vaccine for this virus for his entire second term......"

LOL,NOT......WASF

DENVERPOPS

(8,844 posts)
16. The staffers
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 08:46 AM
Mar 2020

probably fight over who gets to spew the Trump swill to get higher up the Trump food chain......

marble falls

(57,223 posts)
19. Its the only way the designated sacrificial aides get to work out their frustrations ...
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 09:08 AM
Mar 2020

spewing on the phone.

PaulRevere08

(449 posts)
17. The depth of the incompetence of this administration goes deeper by the minute.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 08:58 AM
Mar 2020

I wish they reacted that fast to real emergencies!

hamsterjill

(15,224 posts)
24. I hope he yelled back.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 10:02 AM
Mar 2020

It’s time.

When that White House staffer starts yelling at the journalists to leave the press briefings, somebody needs to yell back, too.

It’s time to fight fire with fire.

raging moderate

(4,308 posts)
25. Something like that Casablanca cafe scene?
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 10:18 AM
Mar 2020

Remember, the Nazis started singing their Nazi song. The resistance leader strode over to the piano player and suggested La Marseillaise. The crowd stood and joining in singing La Marseillaise, and they drowned out the Nazis. We need something like that.

hamsterjill

(15,224 posts)
28. Amen!
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 11:07 AM
Mar 2020

Yes we do.

People are going to have to stand up at some point. We are past what is “politically correct”.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
26. The Bulbous Baphomet
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 10:31 AM
Mar 2020

The Bulbous Baphomet and his Corona Gang have now told us that we must pray, so I guess that should be a sign that YAOYO.

I think it's just damage control from here on in and...pray...pray...pray. Funny, my prayer would be that Don Corona and his mob would magically disappear and IT'S NOT WORKING! Everyone, (even his goofy, deluded base) would be so much better off and a host of problems could then be resolved.

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