WATCH: Governor Moore Responds to President Trump During CBS Townhall: “You Do Not Determine my Worthiness” and Declines Trump Invite, “Nah. I’m good.”
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ANNAPOLIS, MD — In conversation with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell, Governor Wes Moore responded to President Donald Trump’s decision to exclude the governor from this year’s National Governor’s Association programming at the White House. The president’s actions represent a significant break with decades-long, bipartisan tradition and single out Governor Moore, who also serves as NGA vice chair.
Norah O'Donnell: “The president is set to welcome the National Governors Association, that’s a bipartisan group, to the White House, and I know that you are vice-chair of that group and yet President Trump has said that you are not invited because in his words you are “not worthy.” Why do you think President Trump has singled you out?”
Gov. Moore: “Well I can’t speak to the president’s heart. I can speak to his actions. And I do want to be clear to the president respectfully, you do not determine my worthiness, God determines my worthiness, the people of Maryland determine my worthiness. They are who I answer to, not him. And I’ve been very clear with people of my state that I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one, and I think the president has a problem with that. And so I will work with cabinet secretaries and agency heads. I will work with anybody if it means that they’re going to advance the issues for the people of Maryland, and especially if it’s going to help to address some of the issues that I think are being inspired by the policies of a Trump-Vance Administration, but if the point of the meeting—that he singled me out and told me I’m disinvited from—but if the point of the meeting is to turn it into name calling or to follow what he did in this most recent tweet, which is full of lies, and it’s ignorant, and it’s unhinged. If the point of the meeting is that, then my answer to the president is very clear: nah I’m good.”
Norah O'Donnell: “Meaning you won’t go?”
Gov. Moore: “Oh I’m good, I will not go. Absolutely not.”
The conversation—part of a Things That Matter CBS Town Hall—will air this Sunday, February 15 at 8 p.m.
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