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 Chicagos OHare International Airport.
Pritzker called for the government to increase U.S. customs officers at airports in an interview Sunday on NBCs 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 OHare airport, they were stuck in a small area, hundreds and hundreds of people, and thats exactly what you dont want in this pandemic. So we had that problem, and then today, its 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 theyre 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
bucolic_frolic
(43,289 posts)What you expect Baby Gestapo to do?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,289 posts)'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.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)We are so screwed!
ck4829
(35,091 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)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.
scarletlib
(3,418 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)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.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)usaf-vet
(6,207 posts)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)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)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)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)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
LiberalFighter
(51,086 posts)SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)probably fight over who gets to spew the Trump swill to get higher up the Trump food chain......
marble falls
(57,223 posts)spewing on the phone.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)PaulRevere08
(449 posts)I wish they reacted that fast to real emergencies!
Magoo48
(4,720 posts)if theyre yelling at you it means youre doin something right.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Its time.
When that White House staffer starts yelling at the journalists to leave the press briefings, somebody needs to yell back, too.
Its time to fight fire with fire.
raging moderate
(4,308 posts)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)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)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.
magicarpet
(14,171 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,474 posts)or hung up on his ass.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)important to this nation than any President is.