Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to blast the latest Ebola patient in the United States as “reckless” and demand that President Barack Obama resign over his Ebola policies.
Dr. Craig Spencer was diagnosed with the disease on Thursday after reporting symptoms earlier in the day. He had recently returned from Guinea, where he was treating Ebola patients for Doctors Without Borders.
Trump sent out the following tweet when news broke that Spencer was being tested for the disease:
If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa,has Ebola,then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2014
After the diagnosis, he added:
Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with.Obama’s fault
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
I have been saying for weeks for President Obama to stop the flights from West Africa. So simple, but he refused. A TOTAL incompetent!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
Health officials say Spencer spent much of his time in self-isolation in his apartment. However, he also went on a 3-mile jog, took at least three different subway lines, used an Uber car and went bowling, according to reports.
Trump has repeatedly taken to Twitter and used his media appearances to call on Obama to ban travel from countries with active Ebola cases. He has also repeatedly denounced the president for failing to do so.
Last week, he called Obama “psycho” and said “I am starting to think that there is something seriously wrong with President Obama’s mental health” over his Ebola policies.
However, the World Health Organization, Red Cross and U.S. Centers for Disease Control say travel bans and border closures are not effective ways to stop the spread of disease.
“Those are not solutions,” Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said this week. “The only solution is how can we join our efforts to contain those kinds of viruses and epidemics at their epicenter, right where they start.”
CDC chief Thomas Frieden has also said that keeping the borders open offers an easier way to track who’s coming into the country.
