Pelosi compares Trump to a lost traveler who won't ask for direction

Record ID: 1562654

  • Title: Pelosi compares Trump to a lost traveler who won't ask for direction
  • Date: 16th July 2020
  • Summary:  WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 16, 2020) (UNRESTRICTED POOL - Broadcasters: NONE Digital: NONE) WIDE SHOT U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI APPROACHING LECTERN WHITE FLASH (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER, NANCY PELOSI, SAYING: "The President has made so many bad executive decisions. We wish he would make a good executive decision and do that. Observing his behavior, I have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions. All of the answers are there: the scientists have the answers. We know that testing, tracing, treating, distancing, masking, sanitation can stop the spread of this virus. And, yet, the President continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us.” WIDE SHOT U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER, NANCY PELOSI, SAYING: "This is such a massive dereliction of duty: people are dying! And, so, what we are saying to the Senate: join us in asking the President to use executive action for good, instead of ill, as he has done, and pass the Heroes Act, which, as you know, supports our--, but, let's just focus on what it would mean for our schools." WIDE SHOT U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI AT NEWS CONFERENCE
  • Embargoed: 30th July 2020 17:58
  • Keywords: Donald Trump Nancy Pelosi
  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Health/Medicine
  • Reuters ID: LVA001CN27IO7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chastised President Donald Trump on Thursday (July 16) and compared his response to the COVID-19 pandemic to that of a lost traveling partner who refuses to ask for directions.
    "I have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions ... The President continues to go down the wrong path and refuses to ask for directions from scientists who know better than any of us," she said.
    Pelosi urged Trump to employ the Defense Authorization Act to ramp up production of personnel protective equipment and other items needed by the nation's burdened healthcare workers.
    (Production: George Tamerlani)
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