Trump says U.S. will make 100,000 ventilators in 100 days
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the United States would produce 100,000 ventilators in 100 days and said he had named White House aide Peter Navarro as the coordinator of the Defense Production Act.
"We're going to make a lot of ventilators," Trump said, pledging to take care of U.S. needs while also helping other countries.
Trump said there was a great chance the United States would not need so many ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak, and would then help other countries in need.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-us-will-make-100000-ventilators-in-100-days/ar-BB11OnNw?li=BBnb7Kz
He'll change his mind tomorrow.
RockRaven
(14,782 posts)when you sat on your tiny fucking hands and did nothing for three fucking months. While your sycophants -- trying to please you -- did nothing, as they've been trained to do nothing without your permission first.
Purposeful, intentional, malicious neglect. Knowing Americans would die.
Mass killing. Of Americans. By the fucking POTUS.
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Besides the doctors, nurses, hospital staff, paramedics, firefighters, police, grocery store employees, store employees, drivers, and many more . .
Many Governors and legislators, staff, clerks, secretaries . . .
All the above are HEROES.
So fuck off - coward.
DENVERPOPS
(8,677 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 28, 2020, 06:11 AM - Edit history (1)
He is the scum of the earth, along with all his "nuevo" Republican Party syncophants......
He once again has proven beyond any doubt that he doesn't know shit from shinola.
He has no idea that every time he opens his mouth, he reveals his stupidity on oh so many levels......
Why the fuck does anyone even listen to anything that comes out of his mouth, everything he says is purely ludicrous....
procon
(15,805 posts)Everything he says is a lie.
mahina
(17,502 posts)See I can make stuff up too, el presidente.
walkingman
(7,507 posts)Aussie105
(5,211 posts)My will shall be done.
Relevant industries say: Oh, wait! Let's discuss that timeline. And payment up front, first!
Retooling a car factory or Dyson vacuum cleaner production line doesn't come cheap, and isn't done in a hurry.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)You mean people who have never made a ventilator before, are going to be making a thousand ventilators a day?
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)have been started weeks ago but Trump and the Republicans in Congress dropped the ball................again.
Massacure
(7,497 posts)General Motors and and Ventec claim that they will be able to produce 10,000 ventilators a month with the first ones arriving sometime in April and full production in May, but a lot of people are probably going to die unnecessarily before then.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)take so long and if so then maybe they should go with a simpler to build design? After all they only need to last long enough to get us through this crisis.
Massacure
(7,497 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,538 posts)One company was paid $13.8 million of taxpayer funds to develop a low cost, simple-to-use portable ventilator that could be kept in the strategic reserve and rapidly deployed during an epidemic like this one.
Here's the story of what happened to that shit-storm.
The moral is, business has no soul or sense of shame, and should not be trusted to handle anything during a public emergency.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)The ones that are at fault though are the ones running said businesses as they can choose to do the right thing or the wrong thing for their employees but more often than not they choose instead to do what will help them only and they will fuck over the employees in a heartbeat.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,538 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)It will be too late for a lot of people.
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)Trump says a lot of stuff. Almost all of which is complete bullshit.
However, if it were possible to manufacture 100,000 ventilators in 100 days, they'd be coming online in a couple of weeks if that fuckwit had bothered to heed the warnings of his own intelligence agencies back in January.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)One hundred days from now there will be few/no new ventilators and Donny will throw a tantrump at anyone who asks about them.
SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)When 100,000 ventilators fail to be available in 100 days, he'll scream, 'Fake news!" at any reporter that asks about it.
The suckers that believe in him will believe any line of BS that he spews, no matter the documentary evidence available, like a video of him saying exactly what he is denying he ever said. This has played itself out this way many times over the course of his (mis)administration.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)How many old ventilators are out there waiting to be salvaged from bankrupt rural hospitals? I smell an inflated federal contract and a bribe.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)Harker
(13,870 posts)by certain governors?
usaf-vet
(6,093 posts)NY says they need 40,000 ventilators. Even though Trump is likely to claim he knows more about ventilators than any doctor. After all, he is the defacto smartest guy in any room... right?
Ok, so I have played maybe in my lifetime 50 rounds of golf. 18 holes per round. I know for sure I have more time on a golf course than Trump has in a hospital ER or ICU. I do know quite a bit about ERs and ICU and ventilators as a former military medic. But that is not the point.
The point is with my 50 rounds of golf I feel more qualified to discuss golf then Trump is qualified to discuss ER or ICU medicine.
So to the point, I see no reason why Trump should need more than two clubs in his golf bag. One wood (driver) and one iron. If he is any kind of golfer at all WHY does the stupid SOB need more than two clubs.
He should make do with it TWO CLUBS. I bet he has a whiny bitchy argument why HE needs more than two clubs.
But no intelligent qualified argument about ventilators. Either he would be lying or boasting about his MIT uncle if he had anything to say.
Then he should STFU and go play golf and let the Doctors decide how many ventilators they need to save lives.
Harker
(13,870 posts)I'd volunteer to carry his clubs. Both of them.
usaf-vet
(6,093 posts)Otherwise, the cheap greedy SOB would stiff you.
I fact I would pay you a bonus for "combat pay" or "hazardous duty pay."
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)NY, California, Washington and every other state and city that does not bow down and kiss his whiny ass will not get much if any help.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)hospital dying for the economy.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)send as much federal aid as he can to the swing states he won in the last election so as to try and sway them.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)there'd be no open events by Easter.
hay rick
(7,521 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)Canoe52
(2,944 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)since he's withholding PPE so governors will kiss his ass.
I really hope someone in Congress is on the ball and will get those suppliers on the hot seat explaining exactly why confirmed shipments are just not showing up.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)You know, the grand re-opening of Wall street
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)More lies from the Liar in Chief. When has he ever kept one of his promises?
Rube Icon
(78 posts)Mexico will pay for all of it.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)Complex medical equipment, with electronic components and software. Integration of mechanical components. Quality and reliability matter. I'd bet these become known as The Trump Machine.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)He should have been doing this back when he was calling it a "Democratic hoax."
StevieM
(10,499 posts)Rebl2
(13,303 posts)enough, fast enough.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Initech
(99,912 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)dchill
(38,320 posts)mike_c
(36,213 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)that they will start up assembly on April 20 with first product due sometime in May. Maybe.