Gov Whitman to Dump: Go back to your bunker and let the real leaders solve our problems.

[fleur-de-lisa]

Governor Christine Todd Whitman ✔ @GovCTW - 12:14 PM - Jun 1, 2020

@realDonaldTrump, Please stop injecting yourself into crises. Don’t try to tell governors what to do. Instead of calling for calm & for the nation to unite, you were sequestered in the White House basement & silent.

Governors and mayors, on the other hand, were actively engaged in trying to bring order to their cities and towns. The #NationalGuard has been deployed across the country and most of the demonstrations were largely peaceful. While you only seem to feel the need for the use of more force, local elected leaders tried to control things in a way that will allow them to build for the future.

While you just want to condemn people, real leaders are acknowledging the very real racial issues we are facing. In times like this, real leaders step up, and deal with the immediate problems while acknowledging the need for reform at all levels: police, eduction, housing, economic opportunity & more.

This country desperately needs a real leader at the helm to deal with our racial issues, the #coronavirus, all those who are out of work, climate change and the myriad of other issues facing us. We need a leader to plan for the future.

You, Mr. #President, are not that leader. In fact, you are making things worse on almost every front. Please, go back to your bunker and let the real leaders solve our problems.

Link to tweet

SICK BURN, GOVERNOR!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ouch.

Well played, Gov. Whitman.

[onetexan]

38. LOL burn!

and she's a Republican.

[chia]

2. Well done!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. What a great response by Governor Whitman!

I wonder if he'll read it.

[keithbvadu2]

41. Read?

Dotard will only know it if coward Hannity repeats it.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. K & R

[Raven]

5. Yes!

[Alex4Martinez]

6. I think in the end, women are going to bring down this fucking asshole, as they should. K/R

Way to go Governor!

[KSNY]

17. Go Karma! He has harmed many women along the way.

[crickets]

24. That would be sweet. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

51. If the majority of white women would simply not vote for him this time, he'd lose.

Yeah I know, white men too, but I was and still am shocked that the majority of white women actually wanted him as their President, and an example to their children, even after those awful bus tapes. wtf?

[ismnotwasm]

7. Oooooo. Damn

[dmr]

8. I am so happy she's my governor.

I agree with everything she has said.

[lagomorph777]

18. LOL - Wouldn't that be Phil Murphy?

[dmr]

20. D'oh! I automatically saw Gov. Whitmer! Lol

Now I'm red-face with embarrassment!

But I still agree with it.

[wryter2000]

32. I thought the same thing

Didn’t expect something so harsh from a Republican.

[Frustratedlady]

9. WOW! I had to go to Twitter to make sure these weren't from The Onion.

Governor, you are one brave woman! Good for you!

Whoa! She will REALLY be on his list now! I think that in the end, he is going to be taken down by a woman. Oooooo, will that burn!

[Dorian Gray]

60. She's been a vocal critic

of Trump for awhile now. We need as many Republican critics of Trump as possible. (Too few actually in the government now, though the Republican governors in the North seem to be critical. MA, MD, IL)

[sprinkleeninow]

10. whoopsie! dun-dun eat covfefe...

[oswaldactedalone]

11. Governor Whitman from New Jersey

like 20 years ago? I guess that's good.

[mr_lebowski]

12. oh snap (nt)

[Blue Owl]

13. Go to your room little Donny

[smirkymonkey]

14. Touche, Governor Whitman!

Well done!

[ibegurpard]

15. Wow

I had to check to be sure that was really her. No holds barred. From a Republican former governor no less.

[jcgoldie]

16. Well it took 3 1/2 years...

...maybe Trump has finally drawn as big a crowd as Obama!

[DemoTex]

19. As we used to say in the 'Nam:

FUCKIN' A!

[Blecht]

21. She's so courageous

Unlike the Cowering Coward in Chief.

[cp]

22. Good one, former governor!

Whitmer and Whitman both have fiery responses, and quite rightly!

[AllaN01Bear]

23. in other words , shut up.

[crickets]

25. K&R

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[wryter2000]

33. It's Todd Whitman

Of the Bush administration

[crickets]

35. Yikes, I'm reading through posts too quickly. How embarrassing! TY. nt

[wryter2000]

36. I thought the same

We’re not alone, either

[Grokenstein]

26. "real leaders step up"

Like Biden did, while Toadstool hid.

[IronLionZion]

27. Has she ever apologized for stop and frisk?

[peggysue2]

28. Good for Whitman!

A Jersey girl with the right stuff.

Republicans like Whitman need to stand up to Trump and his enablers. To remain silent is a disservice to the country and the American people. The GOP is no longer the loyal opposition; they're the enemy inside the tent.

Never forget, never forgive.

[volstork]

29. A response to that Twitter thread

said he called putin before he called the governors. Is that true?

[Karadeniz]

30. Real leader...real leader...real leader...you're not a real leader!!!! FINALLY!!!❤

[OverBurn]

31. Tweet of the year! Awesome!

[Grammy23]

34. Plain truth: we are done with tRump. We are through waiting for him to rise to the occasion.

We have given him chance after chance to grow into the position of President of the United States
Of America. We know now it will never happen. Many of us knew it before he took the oath of office but others were willing to give him a chance.

His chance is over. It won’t happen.

So now what we need for him to do is just shut up. Don’t lumber up to the podium to spew further words of division. Words designed to enrage some and dishearten others. But nothing that will soothe or calm us.

We do not want to hear another fricken word out of his nasty mouth. Not one more word. If he won’t resign, just shut the F up. We have had quite enough of him.

I hope he understands this. He is done. Hide in the bunker, go to Mara Lago. Stand on your head for all we care. Nov. is coming and your term will officially end. Thank goodness. Now go away.

[Talitha]

37. She gave him a good old-fashioned ass whooping.

[BunnyMcGee]

39. Need a response from every Governor like this

[Cha]

40. EDIT! KR!

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[llmart]

44. This is not Governor Whitmer.

It's ex-Governor Whitman.

[Cha]

45. Omg.. the former repub Gov of NJ! TY,

llmart!

[llmart]

46. It being a former GOP Governor makes it all the better!

We already know our Governor Whitmer hates him.

[Cha]

47. Yes, it does.. and I remember her. I read it too

fast with my bad eyes.

I really appreciate the correct, llmart!

[2Legit]

42. I've loved Christie Whitman since she was NJ Governor.

We haven't heard from her much in recent years, but, boy, when she makes an appearance, she takes not prisoners. With all of the crazy I've seen and read today, this made my day.

[SMC22307]

55. You loved Republican Christine Todd Whitman as NJ gov?

Why, beyond the whole "takes not prisoners" thing? How about her years as Dubya's EPA administrator? The one who told NYers the air at Ground Zero was safe then later admitted she was wrong and apologized?

[2Legit]

43. I've loved Christie Whitman since she was NJ Governor.

We haven't heard from her much in recent years, but, boy, when she makes an appearance, she takes not prisoners. With all of the crazy I've seen and read today, this made my day.

[Dr Vegas]

48. this is a great statement

and I think she still feels bad for telling people the air around the ruins of the WTC was fine after 9/11.
She was in charge of the EPA, and everyone thought she was ordered to say that by the Bush Administration

[DesertRat]

49. k&r

[UTUSN]

50. K&R

[Crunchy Frog]

52. I was having trouble placing the name. Had to go look it up.

Good for her, and I appreciate any Republican who's willing to stand up for right, and against the Sasquatch.

[Lucinda]

53. KNR

[NNadir]

54. After the disaster she was as Governor of New Jersey, I never thought she could demonstrate...

...integrity, particularly after heading Bush's EPA, where she worked to continue the destruction of the atmosphere.

If he's lost her, he's lost everyone.

[zak247]

56. she was once my governor

Look, she was once my governor and normally I would have bad things to say. But in the spirit of unity against the reprobate Trump I won’t say a bad thing about her here and now.

The almost cosmic evil that Trump is, we must unite behind getting him out of office and nurture allies to do that.

Trump is a universal evil, a monumental societal and civilizational atrocity on the level of a Hitler and that will manifest itself if he wins again.

In fact, it already has started with the COVID 19 fiasco where if we would have had any kind of president other than him they would have saved thousands of lives.

Go Whitman!

[LTG]

57. Just to prove he means it.

Enough like that from sitting governors and Trump will be goaded into invoking the Insurrection Act and send in the active duty troops. They go around armed, locked and loaded, when they carry out their duties

[Lady_Chat]

58. haha! so glad she said this to Bunker Boy!

it's just what he deserves.

[meadowlander]

59. She's a Republican for anyone who wasn't aware.

[hot2na]

61. Bang! Zoom!