{"id":10206,"date":"2026-02-16T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/02\/16\/wes-moore-answers-donald-trumps-dinner-snub-nah-im-good-maryland-daily-record\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:25:29","slug":"wes-moore-answers-donald-trumps-dinner-snub-nah-im-good-maryland-daily-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/02\/16\/wes-moore-answers-donald-trumps-dinner-snub-nah-im-good-maryland-daily-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Moore answers Donald Trump\u2019s dinner snub: \u2018Nah, I\u2019m good.\u2019 &#8211; Maryland Daily Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\">\n<div id=\"ra-player\" data-skin=\"https:\/\/assets.sitespeaker.link\/embed\/skins\/default\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-old-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.sitespeaker.link\/embed\/skins\/default\/play-icon.png\"> Listen to this article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/trump\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Trump\">Trump<\/a> excluded Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/wes-moore\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Wes Moore\">Wes Moore<\/a> and Gov. Jared Polis from the National Governors Association White House event.<\/li>\n<li>Moore, NGA vice chair, said he would not attend and rejected Trump\u2019s \u201cnot worthy\u201d remarks.<\/li>\n<li>Eighteen Democratic governors announced plans to boycott the White House meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Trump defended the exclusions on Truth Social and disputed NGA leadership statements.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>In conversation with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O\u2019Donnell, Gov. Wes Moore responded to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to exclude the governor from this year\u2019s National Governor\u2019s Association programming at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump singled out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Moore, who also serves as NGA vice chair, for omission from the event. <\/p>\n<h2>What Moore had to say<\/h2>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell: \u201cThe president is set to welcome the National Governors Association, that\u2019s 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 \u201cnot worthy.\u201d Why do you think President Trump has singled you out?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Moore: \u201cWell I can\u2019t speak to the president\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are who I answer to, not him. And I\u2019ve 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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so I will work with cabinet secretaries and agency heads. I will work with anybody if it means that they\u2019re going to advance the issues for the people of Maryland, and especially if it\u2019s 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 \u2014 that he singled me out and told me I\u2019m disinvited from \u2014 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\u2019s ignorant, and it\u2019s unhinged. If the point of the meeting is that, then my answer to the president is very clear: nah I\u2019m good.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell: \u201cMeaning you won\u2019t go?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Moore: \u201cOh I\u2019m good, I will not go. Absolutely not.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The conversation \u2014 part of a Things That Matter CBS Town Hall \u2014 will air this Sunday, February 15 at 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>To watch it now, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/gov-moore-dismisses-trumps-not-worthy-snub-i-will-bow-down-to-no-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/gov-moore-dismisses-trumps-not-worthy-snub-i-will-bow-down-to-no-one\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>Trump stands firm in excluding Moore, Polis<\/h2>\n<p>President Donald Trump said he\u2019s still not inviting two Democratic governors to a bipartisan meeting and dinner next week at the White House, despite the National Governors Association suggesting the president agreed to meet with all its members. <\/p>\n<p>Trump reaffirmed in a Feb. 11 Truth Social Post that he won\u2019t meet with Governors Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado. The NGA, in a statement just hours earlier, applauded Trump for agreeing to \u201cwelcome governors from all 55 states and territories to the White House,\u201d regardless of their party affiliation. <\/p>\n<p>Trump disputed that characterization and lashed out at Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican and the chairman of the NGA, who spoke to Trump by phone earlier in the day. Trump said Stitt \u201cincorrectly stated my position\u201d about the upcoming gathering with governors.\u201dThe invitations were sent to ALL Governors, other than two, who I feel are not worthy of being there,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n<h2>Why Trump said he singled out Moore, Polis<\/h2>\n<p>The exclusions of Moore and Polis prompted 18 Democratic governors on Feb. 10 to announce plans to boycott the White House events. That includes multiple potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders such as Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who chairs the Democratic Governors Association; Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the DGA\u2019s vice chair; California Gov. Gavin Newsom; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker; and Pennsylvania Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/josh-shapiro\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Josh Shapiro\">Josh Shapiro<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In disinviting Polis, Trump pointed to Colorado\u2019s continued imprisonment of Tina Peters, a former county clerk convicted of multiple crimes for letting someone access data from a secure voting system in an effort to prove unsubstantiated 2020 election conspiracies. <\/p>\n<p>Trump referred to Moore as \u201cthe foul-mouthed Governor of Maryland,\u201d accusing him of allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/tag\/baltimore\/\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Baltimore\">Baltimore<\/a> to \u201ccontinue to be a Crime Disaster\u201d and bringing up a past controversy over whether Moore had wrongfully claimed receiving a Bronze Star from his military service before formally awarded the Bronze Star in 2024 for his service in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p>Baltimore saw 133 homicides in 2025, the fewest in nearly 50 years, and homicides and nonfatal shootings in the city are down nearly 60% over the past five years. <\/p>\n<p><em>Reporting by Keith Demko, Salisbury Daily Times \/ USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Joey Garrison of USA Today contributed to this article.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this article Key Takeaways: President Donald Trump excluded Gov. Wes Moore and Gov. Jared Polis from the National Governors Association White House event. Moore, NGA vice chair, said he would not attend and rejected Trump\u2019s \u201cnot worthy\u201d remarks. Eighteen Democratic governors announced plans to boycott the White House meeting. 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