Mr. Schumer, now the Senate Democratic chief, went to the ground to denounce Mr. Trump. “What sort of president seems to be on the variety of lifel
Mr. Schumer, now the Senate Democratic chief, went to the ground to denounce Mr. Trump. “What sort of president seems to be on the variety of lifeless residents within the nation he’s supposed to guide — and in try and glamorize himself — dismisses each American who died in a state that didn’t assist him politically?” Mr. Schumer mentioned. “What a shame. It’s monstrous. Not a shred of empathy. Not an oz of sorrow. What sort of president do we’ve?”
In an announcement on Thursday, Sarah Matthews, a White Home spokeswoman, mentioned Mr. Trump’s insurance policies “uplift all Individuals” and that he fights “for folks of all backgrounds,” together with in preventing the coronavirus. “However it’s no secret some Democrat-run states and cities have didn’t create financial development, safe their streets or shield essentially the most weak in opposition to this virus,” she mentioned.
A few of the president’s supporters steered the criticism of his feedback has been overwrought and maybe hypocritical. Ari Fleischer, who was White Home press secretary for Mr. Bush, mentioned Mr. Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and different Democrats “blame all the pieces they don’t like on Trump,” whether or not he deserves it or not.
“I do assume Trump is on excessive floor when he factors out that cities with Democratic mayors should not doing an excellent job dealing with the riots,” Mr. Fleischer mentioned. “Frankly, I view city points, not simply the riots however high quality of life points which might be necessary, as openings for Republicans to make their case in areas the place one-party rule has been the norm for many years.”
Mr. Trump got here to workplace making the identical types of guarantees of bipartisanship that different presidents have. “I pledge to each citizen of our land that I will probably be president for all Individuals,” he declared in his victory speech after being elected in 2016. “And that is so necessary to me.”
However as soon as in workplace, he relished warring with Democratic governors and mayors. He attacked blue states for “sanctuary” insurance policies resisting cooperation with federal immigration crackdowns, and he has sought to penalize states like deep-blue California for environmental insurance policies that transcend the requirements he has set on the federal stage. Extra lately, he threatened to take funds from 4 “anarchist jurisdictions” with Democratic mayors who in his view haven’t completed sufficient to suppress protests in opposition to racial injustice that flip violent.
Mr. Trump set the tone early with the signature tax minimize laws that handed in 2017 and restricted the federal deduction for state taxes, successfully elevating taxes on many high-income earners in blue states and creating what Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York on the time referred to as “an financial civil struggle” between blue states and pink states. Mr. Trump subsequently modified his personal residence from blue New York, the place the tax change hit exhausting, to the redder Florida, the place there isn’t any state earnings tax. He has urged others to depart New York as effectively.