马里兰州州长拉里·霍根(Larry Hogan)质疑唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统在几个州鼓励示威反对严格的“呆在家里”和“就地躲避”命令的逻辑，他指出，示威者基本上是在抗议白宫冠状病毒特别工作组提出的指导方针。
周六，在马里兰州首府安纳波利斯，当示威者开车、挥舞旗帜、按喇叭时，共和党人霍根在自己的州内面临抗议。抗议者呼吁霍根重新开放商业和经济，尽管特朗普政府提出了指导方针，全国范围内冠状病毒病例越来越多。
“我不认为鼓励示威和鼓励人们反对总统自己的政策有什么帮助，”共和党州长在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时说国情咨文周日。“例如，我之前提到过，总统的政策是，在14天内，你不能根据他的计划重新开放，除非你的人数在下降，而那些[其他州、[和我的州却没有，”他解释道。
“因此，为了鼓励人们去抗议，你在周四刚刚提出的计划没有任何意义，”霍根补充道。“我们向州长和人民发出了完全矛盾的信息，好像我们应该忽略联邦政策和联邦建议一样。”
这位共和党州长声称他能理解示威者表达的沮丧。他说，他和其他州长希望尽可能安全地重新开放。
特朗普周五鼓励右翼抗议严格的社会距离措施，他在推特上写道:“解放明尼苏达”，“解放密歇根”，然后是“解放弗吉尼亚”。
“外面有很多抗议，我只是觉得有些州长已经忘乎所以了，”特朗普后来为自己的推特辩护说。“你知道，我们有很多人不必被告知去做他们正在做的事情。”
密歇根州州长格雷琴·惠特默是一名民主党人，她反对本州的抗议活动。
惠特莫说:“密歇根现在是美国第三大死亡人数的州，我们是第十大州，正如你所推断的，这意味着我们这里有一个独特的难题。”国情咨文周日。“这极大地伤害了我们的国家，这就是为什么我们需要采取独特的积极行动来保护人民。”
4月18日，马里兰州安纳波利斯，在冠状病毒大流行的情况下，抗议者在州议会大厦附近举行的“重开马里兰州集会”上呼吁州长解除家庭暴力，重启经济
华盛顿州长杰伊·因斯利也是民主党人，他在接受美国广播公司采访时强烈批评了特朗普本周。
“有一位美国总统鼓励人们违法，我不记得我在美国的任何时候我们见过这样的事情，”Inslee周日说。“这很危险，因为它会激励人们忽略那些实际上可以挽救他们生命的事情。”
根据约翰·霍普金斯大学更新的追踪报告，截至周日下午早些时候，美国已有超过72万人被证实患有冠状病毒。其中，近34，000人死亡，近65，000人已经康复。
GOP GOVERNOR CRITICIZES TRUMP FOR ENCOURAGING STATE PROTESTS AGAINST STAY-AT-HOME ORDERS: 'IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE'
Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan questioned the logic of President Donald Trump encouraging demonstrations against stringent "stay-at-home" and "shelter-in-place" orders in several states, noting that the demonstrators were essentially protesting guidelines put forward by the White House's Coronavirus Task Force.
Hogan, a Republican, faced a protest within his own state, as demonstrators drove cars, waved flags and honked their horns through Maryland's capital Annapolis on Saturday. The protesters were calling for Hogan to reopen businesses and the economy, despite guidelines put forward by the Trump administration and a growing number of cases of the coronavirus nationwide.
"I don't think it's helpful to encourage demonstrations and encourage people to go against the president's own policy," the GOP governor said during an interview with CNN's State of the Union Sunday. "For example, I mentioned earlier, the president's policy says you can't start to reopen under his plan until you have declining numbers for 14 days, which those [other] states [with protests] and my state do not have," he explained.
"So then to encourage people to go protest, the plan that you just made recommendations on on Thursday, it just doesn't make any sense," Hogan added. "We're sending completely conflicting messages out to the governors and to the people, as if we should ignore federal policy and federal recommendations."
The Republican governor asserted that he can understand the frustration expressed by demonstrators. He said that he and other governors wanted to work toward reopening as soon as is safely possible.
Trump on Friday encouraged right-wing protests against stringent social distancing measures, tweeting: "LIBERATE MINNESOTA," "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" and then "LIBERATE VIRGINIA."
"There are a lot of protests out there and I just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away," Trump said later, defending his tweets. "You know we have a lot of people that don't have to be told to do what they're doing."
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, pushed back against the protests in her state.
"Michigan right now has the third highest death count in the country, we are the 10th largest state, as you can deduce, this means we have a uniquely hard issue going on here," Whitmer told State of the UnionSunday. "It is disproportionately hurting our state and that is why we need to take a uniquely aggressive action to protect people."
Protesters with the Reopen Maryland rally drive near the State House to call on the governor to lift the stay-at-home order and reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 18 in Annapolis, Maryland
Washington's Governor Jay Inslee, also a Democrat, strongly criticized Trump in an interview with ABC News' This Week.
"To have an American president to encourage people to violate the law, I can't remember any time in my time in America where we have seen such a thing," Inslee said Sunday. "It is dangerous because it can inspire people to ignore things that actually can save their lives."
As of Sunday early afternoon, more than 720,000 people were confirmed to have the coronavirus in the U.S., according to a tracker updated by Johns Hopkins University. Of those, nearly 34,000 have died while close to 65,000 have already recovered.
