Describing himself as a 'wartime president,' Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to marshal pri
Source: Chicago Tribune - AP
Describing himself as a wartime president, Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to marshal private sector against the coronavirus
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press |
Mar 18, 2020 | 3:58 PM
| WASHINGTON
Confronting twin health and economic crises, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will invoke emergency powers to marshal critical medical supplies against a coronavirus pandemic threatening to overwhelm hospitals and other treatment centers. The Senate acted on the economic front, approving legislation to guarantee sick leave to workers sickened by the disease.
Trump described himself as a wartime president" as virus cases surged and the markets fell, and he took a series of extraordinary steps to steady a battered nation, its day-to-day life fundamentally altered.
Most immediately, Trump said he would employ the Defense Production Act as needed, giving the government more power to steer production by private companies and try to overcome shortages in masks, ventilators and other supplies.
Read more: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-defense-production-act-20200318-fhnrrrdxurg5fogqlceiwcuctm-story.html
It's a broad law. Unlimited money, resources for national defense. You and your business must comply with the law. Give them everything they want, or forfeit. The Fed will all but own major corporations, and we get $1k.
LymphocyteLover
(5,652 posts)it's the worst possible person to give that power to... shit.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Whatever it is, Trump will do worse-er.
LymphocyteLover
(5,652 posts)intrepidity
(7,331 posts)Probably kicking himself for not embracing it sooner
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Huge honking gold epaulets and an oversized commander hat... Kim Jong style.
And a big corona-tion parade. The biggest !!
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Tangerine Idi Amin.
DBoon
(22,395 posts)nt
christx30
(6,241 posts)Those that cant, president.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)Gregory Mannarino is the author of The Game Is Rigged. How To Profit From The Coming Global Economic Collapse. Paperback December 31, 2011
I found the following video best viewed at 1.25x speed, and the first 2 minutes are a bit slow to develop, but the rant is probably worth it, though it will leave you fearful. He states repeatedly that a 'coup' has taken place.
BigmanPigman
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Tucker08087
(621 posts)And hes the opposite president, following the George Constanza Theory: if he thinks its the right thing to do, always do the opposite and thats where youll find success.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)He has no experience in what the 'right' thing is. Jeez, just look at his family history.
Zambero
(8,965 posts)...to retaliate against foreign adversaries who have been interfering in our elections via cyber warfare. And to strengthen our own position against further attacks. Not only did he fail to act upon this, he actively downplayed it as being a 'hoax". And as such, he has invited more of the same. This is how a wartime president FAILS in the defense of the country that he is sworn to protect!
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)pretty much qualify a description of him as:
TREASONOUS......
Along with Moscow Mitch and about a couple of hundred others in his staff and administration.....
Oh, and don't forget the Senate Republicans..........
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)There was not a pandemic until he found the Defense Production Act.
NotHardly
(1,062 posts)It would not do any good. I know that and thus I refrain from actual action, not like I could anyway. Trump is mentally tone-deaf to his own ignorance and the sycophants he surrounds himself with since the beginning. But, I can dream, can't I?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Maeve
(42,287 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)doc03
(35,362 posts)because he fought off STDs during that era.
keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)miller whispering in his ear.
groundloop
(11,521 posts)We'd damned well better be careful too, the one and only thing he's good at is manipulation, and he's damned good at that. We must never lay off of him, keep putting our posts on social media pointing out how he thought this outbreak was a joke until too late, how he withheld testing results in January to bolster his reelection, how he disbanded the pandemic response team, etc. etc. etc.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)... Good God No.
I feel like writing a letter to my grandkids:
"I'm so so sorry. People like me (the majority, in fact) tried hard to leave you a functioning democracy and a functioning planet. But starting with the Bush/Gore election we had a coup enabled by the Supreme Court, then another coup in 2016. Someone (not the majority of us) had really longterm plans and goals, and the money and focus to bring it off. I hope that someday you can fix this, because try as we might our time on this Earth is passing -- for some of us, a lot sooner that we anticipated. With sorrow and all my love -- Nana"
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)The plutocrats captured our government bit by bit, and since Reagan they've pretty much had their way with all of us.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)...trying to "do good"
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)the antiwar movement, the women's liberation movement, etc.
They made damn sure that no "people power" would ever stand in their way from then on.
Yeehah
(4,589 posts)Thanks, republicans!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)madaboutharry
(40,217 posts)He thinks he is Winston Churchill. The cult members around him put an idea in his head about thinking of this catastrophe as a war. He is walking around The White House pretending to be a world leader. It like a sick version of CosPlay.
Red Mountain
(1,737 posts)Are there any criteria that need to be met?
Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)"[G]iving the government more power to steer production by private companies" = the government controls the means of production = Socialism! Bet nobody on the Right will call it that.
Also, during the Korean War, the Supreme Court reined in the Truman administration when it sought to seize private property (steel mills). Will this Court do anything to limit Trump?
tiptonic
(765 posts)Just wondering, if there will be a doctor left, who will give trump, another bone spurs letter. Like he did in Vietnam.
RussBLib
(9,031 posts)Better than Churchill, better than FDR.
Damn, who is going to pop this giant cyst's bubble?
olddad65
(599 posts)Declaring Marshall Law, and inviting the Putin to send peacekeeping troops.