Gov. Wes Moore of MD
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appears to have dismissed any possibility of working with President Donald Trump after a meeting at the White House with the National Governors Association.
In a meeting with reporters Monday, Moore said an interaction between Trump and the roughly four dozen governors in attendance ended any thoughts he may have harbored about working with the president. The first-term Democrat said Maryland and other states must rise to the threat of massive layoffs and slash-and-burn federal budgeting coming from the administration.
Trump last week named Moore to a bipartisan group of 10 governors tasked with strengthening state-federal relationships related to security, disaster response and military coordination.
“It was really good to be able to have a chance to express with the Cabinet secretaries … the things we want to be able to prioritize and focus on in our individual states,” Moore said. “Where the meeting went off the rails was when the president of the United States walked in. That’s when you just realized that this was not going to be a substantive conversation. This was going to be an hour-long diatribe of conspiracy theories and attacks on my colleagues. And that’s when you realize that it was when the president of the United States walked into the room that things went off the rails.”
“This was the first time that the new president had a chance to be around … us and hopefully build that type of relationship,” said Moore.” I think for all of us, we were not just deeply underwhelmed, but I think we were troubled.”
Moore described Trump’s remarks to the governors as a “diatribe” chockablock with “conspiracy theories.”
“I heard grievances — personal grievances. I heard a person stand there and say that I won the election. I’m now a three-time elected president of the United States,” Moore said. “That’s not helping anybody. It’s definitely not helping any Maryland families right now.”
Moore said he was more concerned with what Trump did not address.
“I didn’t hear anything about what is being done to be able to address the rising cost of goods,” Moore said. “I didn’t hear anything about what we’re going to do to give middle class families…tax relief. And I didn’t hear anything about we’re going to increase housing inventory. I didn’t hear anything about what we’re going to do to address the cost of prescription drugs.”
https://marylandmatters.org/2025/02/25/moore-changes-tone-after-encounter-with-trump/
