Trump Is Claiming Coloradans Are Showering Him With Thank You Notes for Ventilators

[turbinetree]

STEPHANIE MENCIMER
Senior Reporter

President Donald Trump was up early Saturday morning taking credit for sending a few ventilators to Colorado and thanking all the people in the state who allegedly sent him “thank you” notes for his benevolence. He also tagged Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican up for a tough reelection race this year, who he has previously credited for helping with the ventilator acquisition.

But as the Denver Post has pointed out, thanks to Trump, the state actually got 400 fewer ventilators than it would have if the administration hadn’t meddled in its procurement process.

In early April, Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, had arranged for the state to buy 500 ventilators when the Federal Emergency Management Agency grabbed the shipment instead. Polis complained to the Post that the federal government was leaving the state high and dry. “We can’t compete against our own federal government,” Polis said. “So either work with us, or don’t do anything at all. But this middle ground where they’re buying stuff out from under us and not telling us what we’re going to get, that’s really challenging to manage our hospital surge and our safety of our health care workers in that kind of environment.”

A few days later, Trump tweeted that he was sending Colorado 100 ventilators thanks to a request from Gardner, despite the fact that Polis had been begging the feds for weeks for more medical supplies. The move was among the first of many indicating that the Trump administration was playing politics with medical supplies during the pandemic. As the Denver Post editorial board wrote:

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/trump-is-claiming-coloradans-are-showering-him-with-thank-you-notes-for-ventilators/

Maybe he should look on facebook and Instagram, twitter to see what my brother and niece and there friends are saying about you from Colorado...............you have Blood On Your Hands ..........

[Renew Deal]

1. Colorado will show its appreciation fully in November.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Yes!

[guillaumeb]

2. Trump is fantasizing about showers?

Does this relate to that video that Putin has?

[sprinkleeninow]

13. Great minds...

First thing came to me reading that.

Golden Showers.

Now confession time. Again.

Mon ami, mon cher coeur, my bro in humanity and the divine: 😍

[guillaumeb]

14. Make an Act of Contrition.

And do not think about this subject again.

[sprinkleeninow]

16. Yes, I did do. Thank you, Padre.

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[niyad]

3. Hey, donnie bodybags, the only person I know who would thank you for that disgusting

Act of withholding vents until suck-up cory begged you for them would be suck-up cory. You are utterly delusional.

[niyad]

4. I truly hope that when he needs a vent, none will be available.

[Brother Buzz]

17. We can just drop the orange anus off at the edge of the jungle with a bow and arrow

and he can hunt and kill your own ventilator.

[malaise]

5. Listen well

Don the Criminally Negligent Con LYSOL the time

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Well spoken.

Drain-O-Don works for me.

[malaise]

10. Then you'll love this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181352299

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Good good good!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Sniffing is own farts again.

[JHB]

8. "Thank You Notes for Ventilators": The latest euphemism for rotten produce and bodily wastes.

[keithbvadu2]

9. To get credit for himself, Gardner cost CO 400 ventilators.

To get credit for himself, Gardner cost CO 400 ventilators.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Loser Donnie Bodybags -- "I want you to do us a favor, though."

[Hotler]

18. Bullshit! Show us the email and the letters. Couldn't have be more thatn a dozen from...

those fuckers that blocked the streets the other day.