Illinois Gov. Says Trump Admin. Sent Surgical Masks Instead Of Requested Specialized Masks

President Donald Trump’s administration sent only surgical masks to Illinois instead of the specialized N95 masks Gov. Illinois J.B. Pritzker had requested to protect hospital workers from COVID-19, according to the governor.


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Well, I guess they really aren’t shipping clerks.

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Trump admin: “Hey, Illinois: You’re a blue state with a plain speaking Democratic governor – stop your bitching and be grateful you got anything. Oh, and go ahead and use these surgical masks with your coronavirus patients from Chicago!”

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“You’ve seen one mask, you’ve seen them all”…

Forget about masks, there is clearly a shortage of gags at the WH…

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No accountability, no plan and no idea of what they are doing. This is your Federal government folks, but as my friends that voted for Trump like to say, “there’s no way they were voting for Hillary Clinton”.

This timeline sucks.

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Some people are so picky. They just have to insist on what medical experts recommend instead of being grateful for the largess granted by the Administration with the highest ratings for “Presidential” Press Briefings.

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Heckuva job Donny!

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Dear Illinois,

Your governor was mean to me. So there!

–Petulant Child in Chief

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Obviously he was nice enough to get some masks, just not nice enough to get the ones requested

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The vengeful MOFOUS really comes into his own in times of crisis.

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No soup for you! And we ain’t talking to you on the phone anymore neither!

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Trump Admin. Sent Surgical Masks Instead Of Requested Specialized Masks

Maybe I’ll pay my Federal taxes with Monopoly® money this year.

What with the on-going global emergency, the real stuff is in short supply.

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If you could first do me a favor, I might be able to get you the right masks, otherwise it’s not going to happen.
Idiot in chief

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And I thought the upper right panel of this cartoon was just a joke. :frowning:

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But which recent, almost would of graduated from college Trump supporter got the job of shipping, close but no cigar items, to states with people dying?

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“You don’t like the masks I sent you, not-nice-enough-to-me blue state governor? Here, try these. But you’re not getting the good ones until you say something I can use in a campaign ad.”

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For Trump…so obvious every day…the devil is in the details…

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Trump isn’t totally useless, he can always serve as a bad example and make others look good.

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Pure incompetence. Yet they are still giving themselves pats on the back. Heckuva job, heckuva job.

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Well, not competent shipping clerks

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