"Many of the states are stocked up. Some don't admit it. But we have sent so much." -- Trump paints governors who are asking for more federal help as complainerspic.twitter.com/fpaDBIlSiM
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"How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 -- even though this is different. Something is going on. And you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going?" -- Trump suggests that there is some sort of New York nurse conspiracy to steal maskspic.twitter.com/6vubm89vgQ
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One can't help but think that Trump devotes so much time to talking about what private businesses are contributing to the coronavirus response because the federal government is doing so little
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Trump proposes tax relief for restaurants that might be a good idea but also represents self-dealing, since it would likely also benefit the business he still owns and profits frompic.twitter.com/T6GLzeMr86
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Without evidence, Trump accuses hospitals of "hoarding" ventilatorspic.twitter.com/hnra0YYfhe
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TRUMP: "The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in 2 weeks. I will say it again. The peak, the highest point of death rates, remember this, is likely to hit in 2 weeks ... Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30, to slow the spread."pic.twitter.com/fPhtgmTchl
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"There is something going on. I don't know if it is hoarding. It is maybe worse than hoarding" -- Trump again suggests that de Blasio, Cuomo and New York nurses are somehow conspiring to make unreasonable demands on the federal government for masks and ventilatorspic.twitter.com/xP1NXEeCgR
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In an effort to shift blame to Obama, Trump claims the federal shortage of medical gear he inherited is like his made up story about how the military was out of ammunition before he took officepic.twitter.com/lGMK8kbPaE
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"The decision to extend this mitigation process until the end of April I think was a wise and prudent decision. Dr. Birx and I spent a lot of time going over all the data, and we felt this was the best choice, and the president accepted it" -- Dr. Faucipic.twitter.com/0mNBceIl1v
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Trump claims he didn't realize until today that 2.2 million Americans might have died if people didn't start social distancing (the study that number is based on was widely publicized and published nearly 2 weeks ago)pic.twitter.com/judbBtxdaq
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Trump now says the hope he expressed for packed churches on Easter was just "aspirational"pic.twitter.com/NpCCJRFR8S
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OANN asks Trump a leading question asking him to talk about why his approval ratings are so highpic.twitter.com/m3dqbaJcbl
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Trump's message to people who are facing eviction on April 1 is "I think landlords will take it easy"
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"That's why you used to work for the Times and now you work for somebody else" -- Trump unloads on Yacmiche Alcindor for asking him a question about his attacks on blue state governorspic.twitter.com/iVe5fWEXjG
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Before attacking Alcindor, Trump took umbrage and questioned the integrity of a Bloomberg reporter who asked him about public statements he made the day beforepic.twitter.com/TyBU8AgZER
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"We sent thousands of generators to New York ... the people in New York never distribute it the generators." -- Trump repeatedly refers to ventilators as "generators"pic.twitter.com/UyBXksP3FC
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REPORTER: Florida has reportedly had 100% of their requests for supplies from the national strategic stockpile filled but Massachusetts has not. Why is that? TRUMP, dodging: "I was on the call yesterday with the governors & they were happy with the job we are doing"pic.twitter.com/5PHJG25C7m
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"The biggest problem was the test didn't work. That was not from us. That has been there a long time" -- here's Trump trying to blame Obama for faulty coronavirus tests that were developed by the CDC earlier this yearpic.twitter.com/v2zXukCpwf
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"You will see drugs being used like nobody has ever used them before, and people are going to be dying all over the place" -- Trump on what would happen if the economy remains largely closed down for too longpic.twitter.com/6JyUXzO5Di
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"Your statement is a lie" -- Trump attacks a CNN reporter for asking him to explain his direct quotes from Friday about how he wants Democratic governors to be more "appreciative"pic.twitter.com/uv6fowVLZw
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Trump brags about how his press briefings about a deadly pandemic that is killing Americans get ratings comparable to "The Bachelor" or "Monday Night Football"pic.twitter.com/d3WCvQpSDL
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TRUMP: "We heard people saying maybe we should not do anything [about the coronavirus]. Ride it like a cowboy. Ride that sucker right through. That is where the 2.2 million [deaths] come in ... That is not acceptable."pic.twitter.com/5XerXRltfa
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Trump says 200,000 Americans could die from coronavirus, because he’s done “a very good job”https://www.vox.com/2020/3/30/21199586/us-coronavirus-deaths-trump-200000-good-job …
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