Trump begins the April 6 #TrumpPressBriefing by announcing he's dispatched "two of the leading companies, these are brilliant companies" to go to the UK and help treat Boris Johnson -- but he never bothers mentioning their namespic.twitter.com/jfSJ3aM6pg
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Trump dismisses HHS IG report critical of federal coronavirus response: "It's just wrong. Did I hear the word 'inspector general'? Really ... what's his name? ... could politics be entered into that?"pic.twitter.com/SMsHlgKMI4
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"You ask it in such an unfair way" -- Trump berates a female reporter for asking him about problems with the Paycheck Protection Programpic.twitter.com/CzhdksgWxS
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Trump on Captain Crozier sending letter about coronavirus on his ship: "It was a mistake ... it shows weakness and there's nothing weak about us now. Not anymore. We have the strongest military we've ever had. And we're not going to be showing weakness to anybody."pic.twitter.com/QneCdr41nq
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Asked when he plans to take the second part of his annual physical that began last year, Trump dissembles but doesn't answer the questionpic.twitter.com/peuKK7OJJP
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Trump dismisses the HHS IG report because the official who put it together wasn't appointed by himpic.twitter.com/XnA7L0PvnX
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Trump grills a reporter from Hong Kong about who she works for and in an accusatory fashion asks if she works for the Chinese government (she says she doesn't)pic.twitter.com/c9GJhckVDr
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Trump castigates a female reporter who asked him about testing failures: "You should say 'congratulations, great job,' instead of being so horrid in the way you ask a question."pic.twitter.com/PCYGlkZ2au
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You're a third-rate reporter. What you just said is a disgrace ... you will never make it" -- Trump attacks
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Trump tries to pin blame for his coronavirus failures to Obama and George W Bushpic.twitter.com/DAtpxIv9ga
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"It was a perfect call" -- Trump uses the same language to talk about Pence's call with governors as he did to talk about the Ukraine call that resulted in his impeachmentpic.twitter.com/2cjwA6poaX
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"We're never going to do anything that hurts Texas. We're only helping Texas," Trump says, in contrast with ???pic.twitter.com/22ZmS35Iht
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Trump's case for his own reelection is all about what he did before the pandemic he wasn't prepared for hit, as well as weak Obama whataboutism. Doesn't bode great for him.pic.twitter.com/K8ZoQO7xDw
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Trump takes a question from an OAN staffer Chanel Rion, who was banished from the White House Correspondents' Association for attending briefings she wasn't supposed to be atpic.twitter.com/WQwGCHvtQq
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"I think it was five pages long single spaced. That's a lot of writing!" -- Trump admits he hasn't read Captain Crozier's letter and indicates he thinks five pages of text is a lotpic.twitter.com/155XdMeRIe
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"A lot of people are tired of looking at games that are 5 years old. I looked the other day, I saw somebody, I said, 'wow, he looks great.' I forgot it was 9 years ago" -- Trump concludes by saying he's not a big fan of watching old sporting events & hopes leagues can resume soonpic.twitter.com/wPgb8eoibr
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After Dr. Birx tells a story about how she felt bad because social distancing prevented her from being there for her 10-month-old granddaughter who had a fever of 105 degrees last weekend, Trump jumps in to say: "You did not get there? Good, I'm very happy about that."pic.twitter.com/zPC7MGOgG7
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“What you just said is a disgrace": Trump's response to straightforward questions about a government report detailing problems with his administration's coronavirus response was to heap abuse on reportershttps://www.vox.com/2020/4/6/21211345/trump-coronavirus-briefing-hhs-ig-report-jon-karl-kristin-fisher …
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