New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took to morning TV shows on Tuesday to push back against President Donald Trump’s claim of “total” authority to reopen the nation’s virus-stalled economy, noting that a President is not an absolute monarch.
“We don’t have a king,” Mr. Cuomo told NBC. “We have a President. That was a big decision. We ran away from having a king.”
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The Democratic Governor, whose State has become the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., was reacting to Mr. Trump’s assertion on Monday that “when somebody is President of the United States, the authority is total.”
