Wes Moore downs an Orange Crush, criticizes Trump, and cheers recent state success
At a convention of elected officials in Ocean City, Gov. Wes Moore sharply criticized a federal budget bill, one backed by President Donald Trump, that Moore says would leave thousands of Marylanders without health care and food assistance.
In a 40-minute keynote address at the summer conference of the Maryland Municipal League, Moore split time between talking up his accomplishments in the face of the state’s $3 billion budget shortfall and criticizing the start of President Donald Trump’s second term – calling them “two very independent and distinct storms.”
“We’re now six months into 2025 – and what a six months these have been,” Moore said, eliciting groans from the full auditorium at Ocean City’s convention center. “This was not a fiscal storm that you created, but it was one that you had to deal with. The second storm was a new federal administration that was coming on board with policies that threatened to do harm to our economy and to the people that we serve.”
Moore unabashedly touted the middle-class tax cuts his budget enacted while also levying new taxes on high earners. He trumpeted a new program offering $4 million in grants to boost workforce development, and he celebrated a future $1 billion investment in quantum computing through the University of Maryland.
He touched on a 40-year low in Baltimore’s homicide rate and the state’s low unemployment rate. And, in a dig against former Gov. Larry Hogan, Moore said his administration had helped to create nearly 100,000 new jobs – “which is more than our predecessor created in eight years.”
I truly hope we can get someone qualified to run against this Temu Turd!
This state needs real leadership and capability – not someone simply yearning for power!
The only thing Moore has created is hardship for Maryland!
The way I see it is that Wes Moore is trying to destroy this state while blaming on Trump. By all measures, states that are red are realizing monumental economic success. That includes new jobs, less money for gas, etc.
Ole’ Wes just doesn’t know what he’s doing. And oh yeah, he’s a racist.
He probably got his Orange Crush with food stamps.