| Gov Brawl
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refrained from explicitly criticizing President Donald Trump at the start of his daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic that has hit his state the hardest.
That is, until Trump started tweeting.
The president sent out a tweet blasting Cuomo — perhaps in response to the governor demanding more funding from the federal government — while his presser was ongoing.
“Governor Cuomo should spend more time 'doing' and less time 'complaining.' Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking!” Trump wrote in a tweet.
When a reporter read that out to Cuomo, he went off, issuing a blistering attack against the president that started with an obvious point:
“First of all, if he’s sitting at home watching TV, maybe he should get up and go to work, right? Second, let’s keep emotion and politics out of this and personal ego, if we can, because this is about the people, and it’s about our job, and let’s try to focus on that.” Liberator in Chief Trump called on Americans to “LIBERATE” a series of states, Friday, following protests over state coronavirus lockdowns.
In several Twitter posts, Trump wrote, “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!”, “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”, and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”
It was not lost on commentators that Trump was singling out swing states with Democratic governors.
The tweets nonetheless prompted confusion and alarm — including from many conservatives. BREAKING: People Are Mad Online It wasn't just the president, or Dr. Phil, or Dr. Oz, or any number of public figures that drew outrage online Friday.
Harvard Law School professor and frequent MSNBC guest Laurence Tribe drew his own share of outrage, Friday, when he claimed that a large number of the population will “need to be exposed” to the coronavirus and die for the crisis to end.
That wild tweet was eventually deleted.
Today's lesson: Tweet less.
Condé From Home
Mediaite's Aidan McLaughlin has an update on Condé Nast: In a memo to all staff, Condé CEO Robert Lynch pushed back the date for employees to return to the magazine publisher's HQ in NYC.
That date of return was initially May 4. In light of Gov. Cuomo extending New York's stay-at-home order to mid-May, the Condé stay-at-home policy has been pushed back indefinitely.
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