The "Wanting To Breathe Is Political Now" Edition
And we're on the board!#PressBriefingBingo pic.twitter.com/lZcjH5aWbg— MarySonicWoo (@MarySonicWoo) April 20, 2020
"The governor of Maryland didn't really understand. He didn't really understand what was going on" -- Trump begins the April 20 #TrumpPressBriefing by attacking Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who has been critical of the federal coronavirus response. pic.twitter.com/OTMwj6v5Sp— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
https://t.co/BtNqXXUDwy— Rhonda Harbison (@rhonda_harbison) April 20, 2020
Coronavirus PPE Blocked From States Because of White House
"That's by Rich Lowry, respected journalist and person" -- Trump is now reading news clips pic.twitter.com/2VBgfRfWDb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Using a briefing that's meant to update people on the current pandemic to self-soothe his fragile ego again I see.— Graeme Newman (@graemen2508) April 21, 2020
So much respect. pic.twitter.com/ZavXKbaD51— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) April 20, 2020
"You might just say one thing -- the quality of that wall": Trump asks a general to give an update on border wall construction during a briefing ostensibly about a deadly virus. (He ends up talking about what workers are doing to stay safe even though Trump didn't ask him.) pic.twitter.com/kQfR2ZY5x2— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump touts the US during the highest overall number of coronavirus tests but hasn't mentioned that the country also has the most deaths pic.twitter.com/n7cPdGsWgd— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump flips through a packet of paper that's meant to illustrate all the labs state governments could use to do more coronavirus testing (in other words it's a form of passing the buck) pic.twitter.com/brkRgvwqPa— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
"Somebody years ago got this crazy idea, 'let's build all over the place. And let's have a screw for a cart delivered and made in a country that's far away'" -- Trump is using the coronavirus to make an argument for relocating supply chains to the US pic.twitter.com/s1VgR9N7F6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump hypes possible coronavirus therapies and vaccines but conspicuous by its absence is any mention of hydroxychloroquine, the potentially fatal and unproven drug he spent weeks hyping pic.twitter.com/a6b2hCgpf6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Few days from now he'll proclaim that "people" liked that drug, but he always knew, he always said it wouldn't work.— If they are all Fredo, we are all Frodo (@FaganKara) April 20, 2020
“Dont’t know hydroxywhatever. I take pictures with lots of drugs.”— Bill Johnson (@Bill43111) April 20, 2020
Trump suggests that demands for more testing, just like requests for ventilators, are part of a political conspiracy meant to take him down -- not necessary measures to respond to a virus that has killed more than 40,000 Americans pic.twitter.com/uFFBnqwgQP— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
wanting to breathe is political now— Comfortably Numb🏠 (@YGalanter) April 20, 2020
After Birx and an HHS official talk about the importance of coronavirus testing, Trump takes the mic and says, "by the way, not everybody agrees that we have to do that much testing. We're going maximum." (No expert thinks that.) pic.twitter.com/XfaBLVbBul— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
.@kaitlancollins: If stores open and workers get sick, will those companies be liable?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
TRUMP: "I'll give you a legal answer to that when we look it up."
COLLINS: You guys haven't talked about that?
TRUMP: "No, but we will." pic.twitter.com/iivQJkiU03
.@GeoffRBennett: In March we were promised 47 million tests. Roughly 4 million people have been tested. What happened?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
HHS OFFICIAL GIROIR: "If the machines are not utilized and organized at that level, then they are not being utilized to its fullest." pic.twitter.com/1bdseY5j5m
.@kaitlancollins: If we have enough tests now for everyone to go into phase one, why is the governor of Maryland having to get tests from South Korea?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
HHS OFFICIAL GIROIR: "I don't know what the governor of Maryland is doing in South Korea but there's excess capacity every day" pic.twitter.com/gnIWfewtTs
"The governor of Maryland could've called Mike Pence and saved a lot of money ... I think he needed to get a little knowledge." -- Trump on Larry Hogan (R) buying tests from South Korea pic.twitter.com/LnmbyxSYx7— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
.@GovLarryHogan followed the president's advice and took his state's coronavirus testing capacity into his own hands. Trump attacked him anyway. https://t.co/H7eD08iGIl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2020
Asked about large companies benefitting from coronavirus stimulus legislation, Trump complains that the business he still owns and profits from didn't get any pic.twitter.com/5gn5Ske3g8— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
"We've been defending them for many many decades ... last year I went to them and now they're paying $1 billion a year ... I said, 'I'll be back'" -- Trump's comments about South Korea are like a mob boss doing a shakedown pic.twitter.com/2zbP7mCeb0— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
"Frankly, the allies have taken us more so than the enemies" -- Trump is using a press briefing ostensibly about a deadly pandemic to trash America's allies pic.twitter.com/J8XFviPs4F— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
"Where is the ventilator?" -- Trump is using the fact the coronavirus didn't end up being a worst-case scenario to dunk on governors who have said the federal government didn't do enough to provide them with ventilators pic.twitter.com/ylcPFDCGfl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Hold that thought pic.twitter.com/VGCwsBNipm— I Am Marie R (@alt_ramsey) April 20, 2020
Trump says "I cannot tell a lie" and then lies about testing (he claims the US has done more testing than all other countries combined, which is not true) pic.twitter.com/nDBalIce0d— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Percentages moron. Go back to school and learn about population differences.— Steve (@JNadaneo) April 20, 2020
.@Yamiche: Are you concerned downplaying the virus maybe got some people sick?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
TRUMP: "And a lot of people love Trump, right? ... I think we're gonna win in a landslide." pic.twitter.com/y6rMjcJqGn
TRUMP: I took coronavirus very seriously— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
ALCINDOR: You held rallies in February and March
TRUMP: I haven't left the White House in months
ALCINDOR: You held a rally in March
TRUMP: Did I hold a rally? I'm sorry pic.twitter.com/MPDK8lZAeD
After getting grilled by @Yamiche, Trump makes sure to take a softball question from ultra-sycophantic OAN pic.twitter.com/If5Z3bvLkN— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump suggests Democrats are responsible for the coronavirus outbreak being so bad in the US because they were allegedly preoccupied with impeaching him instead of investigating China in January pic.twitter.com/dGZwkHIz5D— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump on the coronavirus death toll: "We are going toward 50,000 or 60,000 people ... many of the people that have this theory -- 'maybe we could've gone right though it' -- I was somebody that would've loved to have done that, but it wouldn't be sustainable." pic.twitter.com/TrXGEhwzWF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Trump closes with this: "If we didn't do the moves we made, you would've had a million, a million and a half, 2 million people dead ... that's not acceptable." (He's referring to scenarios in which he literally did nothing.) pic.twitter.com/XCYxNHytVz— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2020
Soon it will be if it weren't for me the whole universe would be dead.— Columbo527 (@MagnaPopaTude) April 20, 2020
He said that. He said that at the briefing the other day. That if he didn’t get elected, We’d be at war with N.Korea right now, or maybe the whole world would be gone, who knows. He thinks his election saved the World. The WORLD!#TrumpIsALoser— casey10toes (@casey10toes) April 20, 2020
Fire Chief Trump: "If I had never sent any firemen, instead of showing up late with the wrong equipment, your whole house would have burned down instead of just half of it and more of the people inside would have died."— NC Vates (@NCVates) April 21, 2020
He’s like the crazy nurse who puts feces in our feeding tubes so he can “save” us.— StickyBunny (@skullisland1919) April 20, 2020
That’s it! Münchausen syndrome.— Bill Johnson (@Bill43111) April 20, 2020
That is his entire presidency.
It is NOT a COVID-19 update. It is our daily tRump rally. pic.twitter.com/AB1kzryRSZ— Sheila (@SheilaG1970) April 20, 2020
Trump reportedly asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether it was possible to allow the coronavirus to 'wash over' the US https://t.co/l9DHTgGhBN via @businessinsider— Carolyn from Maryland (@carolyn_from) April 21, 2020
What I saw was disturbing beyond belief.— Sonador@Dreamer (@SONADORLIVESON) April 20, 2020
Taking a victory lap for over 40,000 dead people due to his incompetence.— Robyn J Leader (@RobynJLeader) April 20, 2020
Trump is bragging 100,000 didn't die. When he re-opens too soon and people die, will he be held accountable?— LG (@imleftcoast) April 20, 2020
A few hours later . . .
April 20, COVID-19 Final US Death Toll: 1,939 Americans.About 1,500 Americans died from the coronavirus today and the president is retweeting a bunch of nonsense about the Russia investigation— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2020
And . . .
Yep. Immigrants streaming to grab all the jobs. Sounds solid. https://t.co/YK7ekxpE3l— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 21, 2020
We have negative 20 million to offer.— 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧 (@CRobertBuchanan) April 21, 2020
Visible enemy is racism.— Helen Tjader (@TjaderHelen) April 21, 2020
Why would they want to come here, to the country with the highest number of Covid cases, the most Covid deaths, the worst economy in the world,and by far, the worst leader the world has ever seen. Run! It’s safer in the third world! They might start banning Americans from entry— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan17262403) April 21, 2020
Trump supporters: Open up the economy, we want to work NOW!!!— Al (@alefeusch) April 21, 2020
Trump: No problem, I'll halt immigration and you guys can have all those great jobs!
Trump supporters: pic.twitter.com/CtFxX13r3L
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