US President Donald Trump has ordered General Motors to make ventilators for coronavirus patients after attacking the car giant's chief executive.

He invoked the Korean War-era Defense Production Act, which allows a president to force companies to make products for national defence.

Mr Trump said that "GM was wasting time" and action was needed to save American lives.

The US now has 104,000 cases of the virus, the most in the world.

With nearly 1,700 fatalities, America's Covid-19 death toll still lags far behind Italy and China.

Mr Trump had previously said the defence order was not necessary, because companies were voluntarily converting their operations to help fight the spread of coronavirus.

But on Friday he said in a statement: "The virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course."

Earlier in the day he took to Twitter to complain that GM lowered the number of ventilators they had promised to deliver from 40,000 to 6,000 and had wanted "top dollar".

He also criticised GM chief executive Mary Barra, saying things are "always a mess" with her at the helm of the Detroit-based auto manufacture.


Source: Dj Kotech
https://djkotech.com.ng/2020/03/28/coronavirus-trump-orders-time-wasting-general-motors-to-make-ventilators/

He has no time to waste i guess... It is now a matter of urgency. But attact Mary Barra is quite uncalled for

Abeg na which companies 4 dis country,wey fit manufacture ventilators.

Trump is just a crazy man with power

Here we are waiting for China made when we can use this medium to focus on how to produce some of the gears locally

This is a Pro- Active President, Chai who did this to us, this virus has really exposed this dumb Government.

While it took, Buhari almost 1 month after the virus outbreak, to address the nation, the old and senile man, still messed it up.

Those Cabals will never know peace, I have always know politicians to be the same, but now am over convinced, that they are all one and the same.

Fight, argue, and abuse yourselves over these
Mofos at your own peril.

Democrats will be having a field day I'm sure they are somewhere laughing maniacally. They can't wait for the storm to pass so they can make trump the villain.
Where madam shredder seff..?