Why did Cuomo agree to meet with Trump?

[scarletlib]

[jpak]

1. To tell Trump to his face to cut the shit and do his job

I would think

[Voltaire2]

2. because we still insist on playing by the rules

while they stopped, oh at least back in 2010, and really back in 2000.

[Shermann]

3. So he could tell Trump what he REALLY thinks.

Which is how GREAT of a job Trump is doing.

Then Trump can relay the REAL hearsay directly to us in the Jaws Beach Task Force Briefing.

[scarletlib]

4. So nobody really knows?

[SoonerPride]

5. To ramp up testing. He can persuade him pretty easily.

Agolf Twitler is the worst negotiator ever and malleable as putty.

Cuomo needs testing capacity.

[Jim__]

6. Because NY state really needs federal help in resolving this crisis.

He needs to take every possible path in trying to get that help. Even an almost certainly futile meeting with Trump.

[Aviation Pro]

7. Because....

….cage matches are interesting.

[Princess Turandot]

8. He believes that the Feds need to get involved with a worsening aspect of the testing fiasco..

related to the national companies that produce the tests, and their dwindling stock of reagents coming from - you perhaps guessed it - China.

He met with him about 3 weeks ago on some other matter. It didn't him into a Trump supporter. He's doing what he thinks he needs to do as governor of NYS.

[scarletlib]

9. Well, I wish him luck.

[Hekate]

10. New Yorkers are dying, why do you think?

[scarletlib]

11. I am aware of that.

My question was legitimate in wandering what the particular reason was. I respect Cuomo for making an effort to get the Trump to help the states. It will probably be fruitless but at least he will have tried.

[quickesst]

12. If you listened....

.... to Cuomo' s telephone interview with Nicole Wallace, it is quite obvious what kind of meeting it was. Toothless.

[scarletlib]

13. Well I wasn't watching TV the major part of the day.

And that’s the end of that.

[quickesst]

15. if you had paid attention to....

....the word "if", then you might understand that my post was directed to those who did listen to the Nicole Wallace interview, and that my thoughts on it were simply an expression of my own opinion. I was not trying to make you mad, sad, glad, or anything else.

[thesquanderer]

14. To get to the other side? (n/t)