Gretchen Whitmer is very clearly running for POTUS and she went on a popular financial podcast today to try and humanize herself. She spent time explaining why she made such bad decisions during COVID.
.@sircalebhammer to @GovWhitmer on COVID restrictions: But if I was allowed to be inside outside, why couldn't I just be inside inside?
— Michigan Forward (@MIForward_Net) November 3, 2025
GW: because you were inside outside with just your small group of people
CH: ...and the servers and busers...
GW: Listen, Caleb, none of us… pic.twitter.com/iiiQqST4Kp
We actually need to re-live it. All of these politicians do. https://t.co/Y2ANNMYfau
— Brian (@babcockb56) November 4, 2025
Yes, we actually need to talk about it a lot and never stop.
No, let’s relive it because nobody in charge ever really paid the price for what they did to us. https://t.co/KYnCOSSafB
— Tobiñ (@CTobin10) November 4, 2025
No one has been perp walked yet.
I really despise this "during Covid I made sh#tty decisions with bad information" excuse
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) November 4, 2025
Plenty of people made good decisions with incomplete information. Your bad decisions, @GovWhitmer, mean you're bad at decision-making and you should be embarrassed at this. https://t.co/bstHSPCiFJ
There was Ron DeSantis, for example.
I’ve heard that same line from so many people so many times, “well we just didn’t know anything at the time”, and I still wanna throw whoever says it through a wall every time I hear it.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 4, 2025
“You didn’t know you were being a f**king retard at the time? Really? I knew you were.” https://t.co/ZGBBkAVwmh
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Plenty of experts were also trying to tell Whitmer she was wrong.
My grandmother died alone.
— michael ☧ 🐗 (@mkwomackjr) November 4, 2025
Nobody could attend her funeral.
I assure you that I am interested in “reliving” that to ensure those responsible are held accountable https://t.co/zo9hv9nzMA
Just say it, Witless, it was all a fake to get Biden elected. https://t.co/JDxmqtWgNR
— ChazBro (@chazj9) November 4, 2025
It was all to keep people locked in their homes so Biden could stay locked in his and not campaign.
We had very little or bad information so our first action was draconian overreach. https://t.co/QMKIN3L1Xo
— ephraim zimbalist III (@Rambo679) November 4, 2025
As a reminder, Whitmer locked up seeds.
If the decisions to close schools, shutter businesses, and prosecute and shame those who didn't comply were knowingly made based on "little or bad information," it makes those decisions much much worse.
— Todd Drenth (@twdrenth) November 4, 2025
Civil liberties were violated and public and social trust were eroded. https://t.co/qQDUjgZ0wj
They are STILL lying to your face about Covid. https://t.co/i0Ca217IBQ
— Tark (@tark24510436101) November 4, 2025
All she cares about is her political career. It has nothing to do with making bad choices right.
"We were doing the best we could with very little or very bad information."
— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 4, 2025
No, you were demanding and insisting that people who even questioned your closed-forever policies were trying to kill grandma. https://t.co/pyKv8y90xD
Precisely. They weren't willing to have conversations and compromise. They wanted all the power and to never be questioned. That was reality.
Except, other Governors made better decisions with the same information. Your “instinct” was to restrict. That is a problem… https://t.co/uQxp2kUeBX
— Jonathan Sabin (@jonathanwsabin) November 4, 2025
In other words, Whitmer has terrible instincts.