Why Maryland's governor leaned into a fight with Trump: 'This one is personal'
At the outset of President Donald Trump’s second administration, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) vowed not to be “the leader of the resistance,” but, by last week, Moore was on television telling the leader of the free world to “keep our name out of your mouth.”
He’s been throwing aggressive counterpunches at the president ever since, an evolution from his brand as a consensus-builder into one of the Democratic Party’s more combative potential presidential contenders.
“I’m not a simp. I’m a soldier,” Moore said in an interview, using a slang term for submissive people. “I’m not just going to bend over because the president asked me to.”
Instead, he’s embroiled in a high-stakes partisan spat that has stretched into a second week with Trump’s 2:12 a.m. Truth Social post on Thursday calling Moore “very disrespectful to the Office of the President” and saying the first-term governor’s political career is at an end.
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