Trump's criticism of Pritzker comes hours after the Illinois governor called the president out on CNN's 'State of the Union.'
President Donald Trump fired back at Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for allegedly"complaining all the time" during Sunday's coronavirus White House press briefing, adding that he"hasn't performed well" amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump's criticism of Pritzker came hours after the Illinois governor called out the president on CNN'sfor suggesting that states should have prepared their own stockpiles of medical equipment. Trump said some U.S. states were"totally unprepared" for the coronavirus pandemic during the White House' COVID-19 press conference on Friday."We have a federal stockpile, and they have state stockpiles, and frankly they were, many of the states, they were totally unprepared for this," the president said."So we had to go into the federal stockpile, but we're not an ordering clerk. They have to have it for themselves.
"There's no way that we can stockpile in anticipation of a pandemic that no one anticipated, and yet the federal government is responsible for doing precisely that," the Illinois governor said."And we now know that intelligence sources and all the best advice that was given, was given in January and early February to the president and the White House, and they seemed to not have acted at all upon it.
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