It was a sad day for the Sunshine State, as it crossed the threshold of 10,000 deaths.

She expressed dismay after the US president exaggerated the new virus outbreak in New Zealand as a "huge surge" that Americans would do well to avoid. Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand since 26 October 2017. Shaw is minster for climate change in the New Zealand government. Davidson formerly worked as a youth worker in South Auckland and as an advisor at the Human Rights Commission for 10 years. "You know, no one marched when I was elected," she retorted, referring to the protests that followed Mr Trump's victory in 2016. These deaths occur within a justice system with a deeply embedded culture of systemic racism and violence.

We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. Ms Ardern has been forced to postpone the elections by a month because of the latest outbreak, putting her sizable lead in the polls at risk. On Monday thousands of Kiwis took to the streets to show their solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement. New Zealand minister for climate change, and co-leader of the Green Party, James Shaw. In New Zealand, it’s about 0.45 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard. There's no comparison.

For one thing, the current New Zealand "outbreak" is connected to a "single cluster of related cases."

But the recent discovery of a cluster in Auckland forced the country's largest city back into lockdown. She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders. Ardern is New Zealand's third female prime minister after Jenny Shipley (1997–1999) and Helen Clark (1999–2008). In fact, the United States has more cases (5,482,823) than New Zealand has people (a little more than 5 million). Leader of the opposition National party Todd Muller also refused to give his opinion. President Trump is trailing Democrat Joe Biden in the polls and facing fierce criticism over his handling of the pandemic. It has lessons to teach us, but the president seems to be failing at his own version of distance learning. 786 likes. New Zealand also has political divisions — deep ones — and more than half of voters chose a party other than Labour last fall.

But unlike the U.S., the country isn't polarized. "Anyone who is following," Ms Ardern said, "will quite easily see that New Zealand's nine cases in a day does not compare to the United States' tens of thousands.". The United States, on the other hand, is the hardest-hit nation in the world with well over five million cases and more than 170,000 deaths in a population of 328 million. “Here in Aotearoa, sound research exists to show our police and justice mechanisms disproportionately target Māori and other communities of colour.

Well, Hillsborough had 246 new ones, and Pinellas had 118. “The death of George Floyd is not an isolated event. It was like front page (news), they beat it because they wanted to show me something. "You see what is going on in New Zealand," Mr Trump told supporters. Aunty is now officially The President of New Zealand (Aotearoa) police and justice mechanisms disproportionately target Māori and other communities of colour. Aunty is now officially The President of New Zealand (Aotearoa) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a professional adult, had to address Trump's nonsense.

Two of Jacinda Ardern’s senior coalition partners have accused Donald Trump of racism after more than a week of global protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. We’ll do the math because it’s apparently not the president’s strong suit: The U.S. death rate is more than 100 times higher. New Zealand has fought the coronavirus by taking it seriously with a coordinated approach, even locking down Auckland, its largest city, because of the handful of new cases. There is no political office named President of New Zealand.. You may be looking for: Governor-General of New Zealand; Prime Minister of New Zealand; an office which theoretically could be created if the Republicanism in New Zealand movement succeeded in its initiative for the replacement of the New Zealander system of federal constitutional monarchy with a republican form of government Their united position on Trump was confirmed to the Guardian by a senior Greens press secretary, though neither wished to add any further comment. She is also Leader of the Labour Party, having taken office on 1 August 2017, and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mount Albert electorate since 8 March 2017. Find out more, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern issued a rare and frank rebuke of the American President, At a rally in Minnesota, President Trump claimed New Zealand was suffering a 'big surge' after the Pacific nation reported 70 active cases, Beware Critical Race Theory – the divisive ideology infiltrating school history lessons, Defector rape case highlights widespread abuse of North Korean women, NHS risks becoming 'Covid-only' service without weekly tests for staff, The selfish hypocrisy of champagne lockdownism is demolishing our society, The US, Brazil and India account for half of known infections, forced to postpone the elections by a month, putting her sizable lead in the polls at risk. Looking back on the protests that have shaken America, Three New Zealand police officers charged over death of man in custody. New Zealand PM hits back at Donald Trump's 'patently wrong' virus claims President Trump claimed that New Zealand's daily rise of nine cases constituted a 'big surge' How many have died in New Zealand? Not even New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was exempt from her own coronavirus restrictions after she was turned away from a cafe that was at capacity under physical distancing guidelines. As te representative of te people of Aotearoa, it is clear that te use of 1080 poison is no more than a corporate stitch up. Shortly after her stunning election win in 2017, President Trump met her at a summit in Vietnam and joked she had "caused a lot of upset in her country".

On the day the president made this claim, New Zealand had a “big surge” of nine new coronavirus cases.

As for cases? New Zealand had been hailed as a global success story after eradicating local transmission of the virus and Ms Ardern was lauded as the "anti-Trump". How ridiculous was the president’s assertion? New Zealand, with a population of five million, has around 1,300 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began roughly eight months ago and around 70 active cases. Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, on Tuesday slapped down Donald Trump's talk of an out-of-control coronavirus "surge" in New Zealand as "patently wrong". “Unfortunately, the disease of state-based discrimination is not constrained to American borders.”. New Zealand and the US are traditionally strong allies and both members of the Five Eyes security alliance, but they increasingly diverge strongly on political values, with Ardern arguing for amped-up multilateralism; while Trump pursues isolationist policies . The members of the Editorial Board are Times Chairman and CEO Paul Tash, Editor of Editorials Graham Brink, and editorial writers Elizabeth Djinis, John Hill and Jim Verhulst. We don't want that.". The Green party is the most progressive political party in New Zealand and in 2017 formed a coalition agreement with Labour, led by Jacinda Ardern, and New Zealand … The president doesn't seem to understand what's going on in New Zealand — or in the United States.

839 likes. Asked by press gallery reporters if they thought Trump was racist, both co-leaders answered: “I do”. Entering office aged 37, Ardern is also the youngest individual to become New Zealand's head of government since Edward Stafford, who became premier in 1856. New Zealand's Ardern hits back at Trump over COVID-19 'surge' www.youtube.com.

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Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Follow @TBTimes_Opinion on Twitter for more opinion news. President of New Zealand. Maybe Trump was presciently looking ahead to what would happen the next day, when New Zealand would report 13 new cases, but he probably wasn’t thinking of Wednesday, when it reported six new cases. "Obviously, it's patently wrong," she added of Mr Trump's remarks, in unusually blunt criticism from an American ally. It is not the first time that Mr Trump and Ms Ardern - a relatively young, centre-Left leader - have clashed.

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Early in Ardern’s term as PM, she revealed that Trump had mistaken her for Justin Trudeau’s wife at the East Asia summit. Well, no. The U.S. mortality rate in a country of 330 million is about 52 deaths per 100,000 people.