Pelosi coins new nickname for Trump: ‘Mr. Make Matters Worse’

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi played President Donald Trump at his own game and gave him a new nickname — ‘Mr. Make Matters Worse’.
• The Democrat lawmaker said Trump “has made matters worse from the start”, referring to the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and specifically responding to the administration’s push to reopen schools.
• Trump is known to coin nicknames for people he does not like, even calling Pelosi ‘Crazy Nancy’.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave President Donald Trump a new nickname: “Mr. Make Matters Worse” over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

“This president, I have a new name for him: Mr. Make Matters Worse,” the California Democrat said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

Pelosi added: “He has made matters worse from the start — delay, denial, it’s a hoax, it’ll go away magically, it’s a miracle, and all the rest — and we’re in this situation.”

The House speaker was talking about Trump’s repeated statements that COVID-19 may eventually disappear “like a miracle.”

“Now they want to send our children to school,” Pelosi continued.

The Trump administration has been pushing to reopen schools in the fall for in-person classes and threatened to defund school districts that will refuse to do so.

“The best way to send our children to school is to fund it,” Pelosi said, emphasizing the need for improved ventilation and physical spacing in classrooms to allow for social distancing. “That takes money. That’s in the HEROES Act,” she added.

The House Of Representatives passed the HEROES Act (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act) on May 15, 2020 worth $3 trillion in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Trump administration has been very determined in pushing for schools to reopen in the fall nationwide. The president even said that children have lower chances of becoming severely ill from COVID-19, while those who oppose have cited the potential of spreading the virus to school employees and members of their households.

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines to recommend schools reopen with precautions based on local community spread, advising some form of reopening except for areas with uncontrolled community transmission, the Hill reported.

Source: The HILL