Aaron RuparVerified account

Trump's explanation for not wearing a mask is basically that everyone else is wearing one so he doesn't think he has topic.twitter.com/pmEqwJB7CG

REPORTER: Isn't there a double standard when WH staffers can get tested every day and normal Americans can't at all? TRUMP: If we didn't get the tests, you'd be up complaining ... I understand you very well. Better than you understand yourselfpic.twitter.com/xlZpLs8pny

REPORTER: How can you recommend Americans go back to work when the White House cannot contain the spread among staff? TRUMP: "I think we are doing a really good job and watching it, and I think it is very well contained, actually."pic.twitter.com/WuoLSDD2od

"It's a tiny percentage ... the children recover from that" -- Trump downplays a new potentially fatal coronavirus-related syndrome in children. An HHS official immediately clarifies that it's a very serious matter.pic.twitter.com/cg0qGvt5Js

Trump lies and says "Germany and the United States are the two best in deaths per 100,000 people." The US is nowhere near the top of the list in this metric. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ pic.twitter.com/svZEuNJVST

"If someone wants to be tested right now, they will be able to get tested." -- this is not truepic.twitter.com/nk46FLr5Rp

"Don't forget, people are dying the other route ... you look at drug addition. You look at suicides ... you could make the case it's in even greater numbers" -- Trump's argument on behalf of opening the economy immediately is a grim onepic.twitter.com/wy0YLtILE6

"The numbers are coming down very rapidly all throughout the country" -- Trump lies about coronavirus case numbers and casts doubt upon models projecting that more than 100,000 Americans could be dead by end of the summerpic.twitter.com/HvWqfOk3XT