NO, Chuck. Just No

 

Fuck Chuck

 

Chuck needs to be pressured to retire.

Stand up to the bullies

 

Maine governor standing strong

[I]n a White House meeting with governors in February,] over a Maine anti-discrimination law that allows transgender athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports, [...] Trump threatened that day to cut off funding for Maine, and Ms. Mills shot back, “See you in court,” she has not budged from her stance: that complying with the president’s executive order barring transgender women from women’s sports would violate the Maine law.

While she has stood firm, the federal government has barraged the state with investigations, declared its education system to be in violation of federal law and frozen some of its funding.

The Department of Education has set Friday as a final deadline for Maine to comply with the president’s order. If it does not, the agency plans to hand the matter over to the Department of Justice for enforcement.

  NYT

That's today.

When [Trump] visited the state early in the pandemic, he insulted [Governor Mills'] public health policies and called her “a dictator” who “doesn’t know what she’s doing.” The governor, a Democrat and brusque former prosecutor, did not mince words in response: “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,” she said at the time.

And, once again, every accusation is a confession.

This is how you do it

Speaking before Democratic and Republican governors at an event in the White House, Trump called out [Maine's Democratic governor Janet] Mills directly while addressing some states’ objections to his recent executive order that bars trans athletes from women’s sports.

“Are you not gonna comply with it?” Trump asked Mills.

[...]

I’m complying with state and federal law,” Mills responded.

“We are the federal law,” he retorted. “Well, you better do it. You better do it because you’re not gonna get any federal funding at all if you don’t.”

[...]

Trump then repeated MAGA talking points on “men playing in women’s sports.”

“See you in court,” Mills eventually answered.

“Good, I’ll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor ’cause I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics,” he said.

Mills is term-limited and cannot seek reelection to a third consecutive term when her current term ends.

  Huffpost

He'll probably claim he ran her out of politics.

He started to say "I" instead of "we" being the federal government.

The Maine Principals’ Association, which governs high school sports in the state, has said that it will ignore Trump’s executive order and instead obey a state law that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic pre-disposition, religion, ancestry or national origin.

Stand up to the bastard. He's such a shitbag.

Be Janet Mills.

UPDATE 06:34 am:

He doesn't give a shit

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills urged Republican President Donald Trump to “check the rhetoric at the door” when he pays a visit Friday to a manufacturer of specialized swabs used in testing for the coronavirus.

[...]

“Abandon the divisive language that sows seeds of distrust among our people,” she said Monday. “Lead with trust and compassion.”

  The Republic

He couldn't even if he wanted to. He has no compassion. And he absolutely can't be trusted.

Guilford-based Puritan Medical Products is in the process of opening a second production site with a goal of roughly doubling monthly production to 40 million swabs per month by August or September.

The Trump administration is providing $75.5 million through the Defense Production Act to boost production.

And he wants photo-op credit for it.

[In a phone call to the country's governors,] Trump urged [them] to “dominate” the protesters: “You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again.”

A former prosecutor and attorney general, Mills inquired about which federal statute would be used to charge protesters. She also asked the president about intelligence that he claimed to have linking protesters to the Occupy Wall Street movement. She said she didn’t get satisfactory answers.

Well, there's a surprise.

“What we need right now is to heal. To heal from this virus that is robbing citizens of their breath and their life, to heal from the actions that robbed George Floyd of his dignity, his breath, his life,” she said.

Trump later said that the governor's concerns made it more likely he would go to the state.

"You know, she's tried to talk me out of it, I think she probably talked me into it," Trump said. "She just doesn't understand me very well."

  MSN

Prick.

She understands you perfectly.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.