WASHINGTON -- As he confronts a global pandemic, President Donald Trump's attention has also been directed at a more familiar foe: those he feels are challenging him, and particularly women."Always a mess with Mary B.," Trump tweeted last week, attacking the female chief executive of General
WASHINGTON — As he confronts a global pandemic, President Donald Trump’s attention has also been directed at a more familiar foe: those he feels are challenging him, and particularly women.
In interviews, she said Michigan was not receiving “clear directives and guidance” from Washington, and that the federal government told her that if the state needed supplies, “we needed to go it ourselves.” On the calls, officials said, she has been corrected by Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about what waivers she had already been granted by the federal government.
On Monday morning, in an interview with “Fox & Friends,” he referred to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “sick puppy” after she had appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” and said the president’s early denials about the dangers of the coronavirus carried “deadly” consequences.In an interview Monday, she rolled her eyes at his attack. “Every knock from him is a boost for me, quite frankly, so I don’t care what he says,” she said.
It was a sentiment echoed by Democrats, who said Trump’s pattern of singling out women for critiques ultimately takes a toll on him politically with female voters, even as it energizes some members of his base.
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