De Blasio: ‘Trump Will Go Down in History as a President Who Acted Like Herbert Hoover’ at Start of Depression

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DE BLASIO: “Willie, they’re basically telling us we’re on our own. We asked for supplies from the strategic national stockpile. We got a paltry amount, we got a lot of expired supplies because they have not replenished that stockpile. Right now Trump and Pence are weeks, if not months, behind this crisis. I made the analogy yesterday to Herbert Hoover. I mean literally, Donald Trump will go down in history as a president who acted like Herbert Hoover at the beginning of the Great Depression. He’s out of touch with what’s happening to the people, slow to act, unwilling to use his powers. So what is happening here is we make the request, we get lip service, and nothing comes. And meanwhile, every hour we’re getting closer to that point where our hospitals will be entirely full and we won’t have the supplies. You can’t effectively treat people if you don’t have surgical masks. If you don’t have a ventilator, you can’t help someone who is in deep respiratory distress. That’s what happens with this disease.”