Kushner wanted to let COVID run rampant through the blue states. And now we see he REFUSED to permit a smooth, safe, informed transition to the new administration re: the pandemic. Trump “intentionally downplayed” the danger, causing avoidable COVID deaths. Yet NO ACCOUNTABILITY! pic.twitter.com/aaKw0VeuGn

— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) December 30, 2022

NEWS: CDC declares COVID-19 out of control in the US.

5 months after the president calls the pandemic a hoax
2 months after declaring it is over.

And that is why it is out of control. https://t.co/21q0mOByEv

— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) June 30, 2020

This is is Sen. Cornyn’s excuse for Trump about Russian bounties on US troops: “Well, I think the president can’t single-handedly remember everything, I’m sure, that he’s briefed on.” At the same time, Trump campaign running ads saying Biden is losing it. https://t.co/fgXLNjI8KB

— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) June 30, 2020

TONY FAUCI has been blocked from some media appearances, amid White House concern that interviewers are trying to turn him on the president, @ToluseO @jdawsey1 @yabutaleb7 report. https://t.co/tGmjm8JW3x pic.twitter.com/FykgJqdk1K

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 27, 2020

With Trump leading the way, America’s coronavirus failures exposed by record surge in new infections https://t.co/YXKtwMPe4h

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 28, 2020

Four months ago today Trump claimed cases were 'going down close to zero’ and he was doing ‘very good job’ containing virus. @kaitlancollins reports pic.twitter.com/FRc0NlZebu

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 26, 2020

BREAKING: Most travelers from the U.S. will be barred from entering the E.U. when it reopens Wednesday due to the country's growing coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/KDi6nkkFGt

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 30, 2020

(CNN) The EU has published a list of recommendations for which nationalities should be allowed to enter its borders — and the US is not included.https://t.co/TIdmWHs5SW

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 30, 2020

After weeks of protests and amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high of 58%, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. https://t.co/WIEO3guH5R

— NPR (@NPR) June 27, 2020

Citizens of the United States are blocked from the EU. But these countries are deemed to have handled the coronavirus well enough to allow their citizens to travel to Europe. https://t.co/yGeVsqd8n9 pic.twitter.com/VYtDyNuBhX

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 26, 2020

Coronavirus deaths are way down. Mortality rate is one of the lowest in the World. Our Economy is roaring back and will NOT be shut down. “Embers” or flare ups will be put out, as necessary!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2020

With no alternative health care proposal, Trump administration urges Supreme Court to kill Obamacare amid pandemic, recession. @JeffreyToobin @abbydphillip discuss pic.twitter.com/ZR2HRWaCBd

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 26, 2020

New statement from the White House on ACA: “A global pandemic does not change what Americans know: Obamacare has been an unlawful failure and further illustrates the need to focus on patient care. ”https://t.co/1bOpua8l2i

— Ariane de Vogue (@Arianedevogue) June 26, 2020

The Trump administration SCOTUS brief includes a section explicitly arguing that the ACA’s preexisting condition protections should be killed. pic.twitter.com/QpqolqkNs5

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 26, 2020

CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield: coronavirus has ‘brought this nation to its knees.’ @nickwattcnn reports pic.twitter.com/IGdoMmPLv1

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 23, 2020

As testing increased across the nation, the positive rate fell everywhere, but now it's climbing in the south and west. pic.twitter.com/b2lgLDsrRL

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) June 23, 2020

Arizona now has *twelve times* the corona rate as New York. Twelve. Times. https://t.co/PgSKuBkmuP

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 23, 2020

Everything in this tweet is wrong @gop @housegop @GOPChairwoman @PressSec @Scavino45

Travel ban banned nothing. People with the virus came home from China and Europe.https://t.co/hDx8F7s1Wv

Testing? we are 26th in the world thanks to YOUR incompetence! pic.twitter.com/AeuINBU3wk

— David Limbaugh – DavidInMidTn on Threads (@david4potus2020) June 23, 2020

U.S. shows increase in new cases per capita relative to other nations with high infection rates. U.S. shows R = 1.14 and epidemic doubling time of 52 days, suggesting spread accelerated since last week when R was 1.05, doubling time >60 days. Based on modeling from Morgan Stanley pic.twitter.com/uvlZMoJJcg

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 23, 2020

With the rally over, I can now report that more than one out of every eight minutes of Trump's speech in Tulsa was focused solely on litigating how his West Point speech was treated. https://t.co/vnPnxLFn8r

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 21, 2020

‘Slow the testing down please,’ —Pres. Trump said he asked his team to slow down COVID-19 testing to reduce the number of reported cases. A White House official has said that Trump was joking. There have been more than 119,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. as of June 20. pic.twitter.com/6ZsOPYoJa4

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) June 21, 2020

Trump contradicts his own aides and says he was not kidding when he said he asked for a slowdown in coronavirus testing: “I don’t kid, let me just tell you.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 23, 2020

Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020

.@caroline_mkelly runs down some of the things Trump had said about coronavirus testing before last night: https://t.co/GqQnsdeinV pic.twitter.com/DxVp1KKLyD

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 21, 2020

In case there’s any question: Congress will be pursuing answers on this because the American people deserve to know if their president sabotaged efforts to detect and contain COVID-19 because he didn’t like the results. The result he needs to focus on is the lives we can save. https://t.co/TykncX2LnY

— Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (@CongressmanRaja) June 21, 2020

This is devastating: "Our analysis shows that with the same actions actually taken by other nations large and small, from East and West, the U.S. could have prevented 70% to 99% of its Covid-19 deaths. This has been a needless tragedy." https://t.co/Xi7JEJ89Ox via @statnews

— David Abel (@davabel) June 20, 2020

"They're in denial": How the Trump White House is ignoring the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/uVIRuC1sJd pic.twitter.com/Hc786z1Vq8

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 18, 2020

NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Top members of coronavirus task force advised against Trump's Tulsa rally https://t.co/H7HptwhyLp

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 19, 2020

Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword – Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2020

April 27 was the last time there was a White House coronavirus task force briefing, leaving us with more than a month without regular updates from the group Vice President Mike Pence was tapped to lead. (1/24)

— Dr. Sanjay Gupta (@drsanjaygupta) June 17, 2020

The population of the US is 330 million
The population of the EU is 446 million

[source https://t.co/JtQgQFMvj9] pic.twitter.com/DAVWfkIW15

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 16, 2020

No, COVID isn’t “dying out.” No, Biden isn’t stuck in his basement. No, Obama didn’t fail to do anything on policing. No, Trump didn’t get Vets Choice. No, Goodell’s anti-racism statement wasn’t unsolicited.

Fact check on another Trump day of dishonesty: https://t.co/GyAZqYH87n

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2020

Mike Pence’s deceptions unmask Trump’s dangerous reelection strategy, @ThePlumLineGS writes https://t.co/7C9S6KSzLC

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) June 17, 2020

Asked on "Fox and Friends" about holding Trump's Tulsa rally outdoors because of the coronavirus, Pence said, "you raise a good point." https://t.co/bROkM5GQnL

— USA TODAY Politics (@usatodayDC) June 16, 2020

States reported ~23.5k cases today.

The 7-day average is now at its highest point since May 24.

One important caveat from Texas: 1500 of these cases are older data that local health authorities had not previously reported. pic.twitter.com/Q8bADZ9q3P

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) June 16, 2020

Days before hosting a massive rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, President Trump said in a Wall Street Journal interview that some people at the rally this Saturday may catch coronavirus, but added “it’s a very small percentage” https://t.co/lxXHrisEht

— CNN (@CNN) June 18, 2020

Oklahoma Senate candidate @abbybroyles says Pres. Trump’s Tulsa rally puts “hundreds of thousands of people at risk.”

“All those people are going to go into our stores and our restaurants and our churches and infect so many more people. It's reckless.” https://t.co/ooPAT3W0uD pic.twitter.com/ruxdEneaBC

— CNN (@CNN) June 18, 2020

The federal government is stuck with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine now that the FDA has revoked permission for the anti-malarial drug to be distributed for coronavirus treatment. Stockpiling started in late March, after Pres. Trump touted the drug https://t.co/Ys3AKRFaPb

— CNN (@CNN) June 17, 2020

The oldest African-American owned and operated nursing home in the state has had no infections from coronavirus among its residents and employees, @DanRodricks writes, because its director took immediate action. https://t.co/8SeMehrgNm

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) June 19, 2020

16 Friends Get Coronavirus After Going to Florida Bar

“‘We should be wearing masks. We should be social distancing,’ she said. ‘It was too soon to open everything back up.’” https://t.co/4tXpyWGXiz

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) June 17, 2020

Tulsa still has a “Safer-at-Home” order in place urging residents over 65-years-old to only leave home for essential work, medical appointments and grocery shopping

Sources say there are no plans to restrict senior citizens from attending the rallyhttps://t.co/oCMYN05zzL

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) June 17, 2020

Trump promised national pride. A new poll proves he’s delivered national shame, @MaxBoot writes https://t.co/91SKsgtjk1

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) June 16, 2020

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting chief violated its ethic code by reprimanding employees who put out an accurate statement that a hurricane was not going to hit Alabama because it contradicted Trump's tweet. https://t.co/sdrbKb4kwy

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 16, 2020

Attendees at President Trump's first rally since March won't be required to maintain social distancing or wear masks, even as the administration's top public health officials continue to stress the importance of both in preventing the spread of coronavirus https://t.co/Oytgxrwd2P

— CNN (@CNN) June 16, 2020

Trump: If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any pic.twitter.com/ipdOf7Yrgi

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 15, 2020

Breaking News: Vice President Mike Pence encouraged governors to repeat a misleading claim about coronavirus outbreaks https://t.co/vEU5iJeXuY

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 16, 2020

UPDATE: The FDA has pulled emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the malaria drugs touted by Pres. Trump to treat COVID-19, due to growing evidence of their ineffectiveness and risk of deadly side effects, the AP reports pic.twitter.com/lEg7VYDjaN

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) June 15, 2020

The FDA is revoking its emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause deadly side effects. https://t.co/u7iIqLn3Ci

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) June 15, 2020

We are through the looking glass when the country's premier disease-fighting agency refuses to deal with the Voice of America, a taxpayer funded outlet meant to showcase U.S. values https://t.co/47s6pwMIkx

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) June 15, 2020

Official response from CNN General Counsel to @TeamTrump‘s letter demanding CNN apologize for a poll that shows @JoeBiden leading. pic.twitter.com/pQaGPxsA0y

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) June 10, 2020

NEW: Republicans fear Trump may cost them Senate https://t.co/ecECF5Dpkc pic.twitter.com/JqI5vDEGdE

— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2020

Trump visits the coronavirus swab production line in Maine, without a mask, and the manufacturer says it will now have to throw away the day’s output. https://t.co/gq1lo4LD9t

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) June 6, 2020

The president of the White House Correspondents' Association said that the White House "needlessly put reporters' health at risk" by moving chairs closer together for Trump's Rose Garden address today after they were initially spaced apart. https://t.co/z4NVVyJecw

— Axios (@axios) June 5, 2020

Incredible.

WH made reporters, including myself, sit *closer together* at the president's remarks in the Rose Garden today and *violate the federal government's social distancing policy for the pandemic* because they thought the seating arrangement "looks better."

From @whca: pic.twitter.com/WiJV27Ivbg

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 5, 2020

This week @KellyServick and I delved into what could well become the first big scientific scandal of this pandemic. Here’s a quick summary. 1/nhttps://t.co/hDmrI7jbKQ

— Martin Enserink (@martinenserink) June 3, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the number of his meetings with President Trump have “dramatically decreased” even as the novel coronavirus pandemic rages on throughout the countryhttps://t.co/HOc7916vYO

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 1, 2020

In the shadow of 100k+ COVID-19 deaths and anguished protests nationwide, Trump’s campaign strategy came into view: Burn the whole thing down.@jheil explains: https://t.co/NdDDoDVcDu pic.twitter.com/IH5P3CYmQg

— The Recount (@therecount) May 31, 2020

If you take passing 100K dead, unemployment passing 40M, the descent of American cities into chaos, the withdrawal from The WHO, the snub of the US by the rest of the G7, targeting a non-existent "far left" group with non-existent authority…

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) June 1, 2020

Trump’s May days: A month of distractions and grievances as nation marks bleak coronavirus milestone https://t.co/vyVvgwFhXR

— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) June 1, 2020

widespread agreement POTUS will only make matters worse. Total failure of leadership. https://t.co/SgjYVolfpu

— Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) June 1, 2020

"We can’t see the African Americans dying of covid inside our hospitals, but we can see George Floyd cruelly singled out for asphyxiation in the street. His death is a symbol of the obscene inequality and racial hostility of this moment." My column: https://t.co/fTsr3K4v4A

— Jennifer Senior (@JenSeniorNY) June 1, 2020

NEW story: Trump spent decades spreading dangerous misinformation about disease outbreaks — from falsely saying AIDS patients spread the virus on purpose to telling Americans not to get a swine flu vaccine and suggesting it could cause autism.https://t.co/MsxmzUzeX8

— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) May 30, 2020

Here is my breakdown of Donald Trump's 654 false claims between the day his pandemic task force started meeting, January 27, and May 3. https://t.co/pkGi695nM0

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 29, 2020

Here are the pandemic-specific subjects Trump was most frequently dishonest about between Jan. 27 and May 3.

#4: Trump's dishonest comments about…his own previous comments.https://t.co/a6SrXsIoX0 pic.twitter.com/8HolWzNUaU

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 29, 2020

The federal government is awarding huge contracts, including for feeding families in need, to companies with little experience, and doing so with little oversight or accountability. It's not shocking then that some of these companies fail to deliver.https://t.co/D1gva59o4m

— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) May 29, 2020

Pres. Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at tightening government oversight of Twitter and accusing online companies of “engaging in selective censorship.”
@POTUS called for a review of laws that protect sites' legal liability over what users post.
Here’s @benstracy pic.twitter.com/RtS1jsqxok

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 28, 2020

After the manufacturer of Remdesivir gave the government a stockpile of the first drug found to be effective in treating the coronavirus, the Trump administration fumbled its distribution and caused unnecessary delays in treatment to severely ill patients https://t.co/BRDs7oLbE4

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 28, 2020

140 mil poor & low-income Americans before #COVID19. Ppl are being forced to work, putting profit over protection. This pandemic will highlight how poverty⁠—and our willingness to let people remain in it⁠—presents a clear & present danger for all of us.https://t.co/P4I90SVY7c

— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) May 28, 2020

100,000 dead. But Trump’s public schedule this week contains no special commemoration, no moment of silence, no collective sharing of grief. https://t.co/Rb10rI0IqQ

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) May 28, 2020

Trump and McEnany said Trump had to vote by mail because he couldn't be in Florida to do it in person.

Wrong. He was there for 2 full early voting days. A voting site was *across the street from his golf club.* He drove past it 6 times.@Kevinliptakcnn: https://t.co/EaZBU73F4Z

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 28, 2020

Anthony Fauci today became the first Trump administration official to say definitively that #hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus, based on the available data https://t.co/9a1Hz4Unf9

— POLITICO (@politico) May 27, 2020

Trump calls mask wearing "politically correct," Biden calls him a "fool" https://t.co/AiU9fsS4NK

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 27, 2020

100,000 dead Americans. One wrong president. pic.twitter.com/NTH4cT0Xum

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 27, 2020

"I consider them essential," Trump said of reopening churches and other places of worship. https://t.co/EZojNKzvtv

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 22, 2020

NEW:

Approval of Trump’s handling of coronavirus hits a new low.

Only 40% of Americans — and just 32% of Independents — approve of Trump on coronavirus.

It’s the lowest so far in @NavigatorSurvey tracking. pic.twitter.com/RKlvJyEYvK

— Joshua Karp (@JoshuaKarp) May 20, 2020

"We've been muzzled," said a current CDC official. "What's tough is that if we would have acted earlier on what we knew and recommended, we would have saved lives and money." https://t.co/BISAoP6zXs

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 20, 2020

Coronavirus US live: Trump calls America's 1.52m cases 'a badge of honor', stirring outrage https://t.co/xTFn0cA116

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) May 20, 2020

After someone at the plant tested positive for COVID-19, some concerned employees ask if their return to work is at the expense of their own health and safety: “All these people are crowded and on top of each other.” https://t.co/B82HQysZa6

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 20, 2020

Korea CDC study on a fitness dance class outbreakhttps://t.co/NWfuUoe9bD

Large classes + small spaces + intensity = bad news

"The moist, warm atmosphere coupled with turbulent air flow generated by intense physical exercise can cause more dense transmission of droplets." pic.twitter.com/qlHlCbKQfI

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) May 20, 2020

Trump says the US having the most confirmed cases in the world is a "badge of honor": "When we have a lot of cases, I don't look at that as a bad thing, I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing. Because it means our testing is much better."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 19, 2020

Trump describes medical researchers as enemies because he doesn’t like their results https://t.co/Js0FYod9b0

— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) May 20, 2020

📺 Welcome to this week.

Nearly 90,000 American lives have been lost.

The virus is still spreading.

And @realDonaldTrump continues to deny and deflect, failing the people he was elected to serve. pic.twitter.com/VyREd8EVgI

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 18, 2020

JUST NOW: "I don't think I have ever heard of such a thing from a medical journal. It's stunning. But I do think that there is a concern among folks focused on public health."@maggieNYT on the "anti-endorsement" of @realDonaldTrump from the @TheLancetpic.twitter.com/9g2qo82fr1

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) May 15, 2020

This may be the single stupidest thing ever said by a Presidential kid in American history. It should be pondered for a few moments in all of its idiotic glory. Nearly 100,000 Americans are dead. The economy is shattered. It is so because of the total incompetence of Donald Trump https://t.co/fZulcfYCHQ

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 17, 2020

Trump and his team appear to be applying pressure to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rethink how it is calculating the number of virus deaths — in a way that may lower them. https://t.co/oYMAbsfGGg

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 18, 2020

90,000 Americans are dead.
1,400,000 confirmed U.S. cases.
36,000,000+ unemployment claims filed.

Trump had plenty of warning, but he failed to act to slow the spread of the pandemic.@StaceyAbrams takes us back in time to explain Trump’s failed coronavirus response: pic.twitter.com/wbOODu1vB9

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) May 18, 2020

No distraction, no lies, no flim-flammery can confuse the bottom line:

With 4% of global population, we have 30% of global deaths.

That's us, the United States, supposedly the most advanced country on the planet.

Aren't you proud?

1/2

— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) May 18, 2020

Imagine if Trump has been president in 1942.

One day he says the war is already won; the next day that we will have to accept the occupation of France. He expresses hope in a death ray from Buck Rogers. He complains about rationing and blames Hoover.https://t.co/3Hroe9gdqp

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) May 15, 2020

The White House is choosing to continue using a rapid test that another study shows misses a lot of positive covid cases. The test is used to determine whether people can get close to the president https://t.co/voKziR8xMb

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 13, 2020

NEW w/⁦@swin24⁩

Trump and members of his task force are pushing the CDC to change how the the agency works with states to count covid19 deaths.They’re pushing for revisions that could lead to far fewer deaths being counted than originally reported
https://t.co/oNDKwh4lup

— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) May 13, 2020

Democrats Blame (top 3):
1. Americans who didn’t socially distance
2. Trump Administration
3. Federal government

Republicans blame (top 3):
1. China
2. Immigrants
2(t). Americans who travelled internationallyhttps://t.co/g4YYkqN3Rl pic.twitter.com/ZW4tzTfYaE

— Bruce Mehlman (@bpmehlman) May 13, 2020

Predictably, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannit and Laura Ingraham slam Dr. Fauci after his Senate testimony on #coronavirus and and lockdowns. https://t.co/uxSTxXiGp8 pic.twitter.com/nzBl8zN2jG

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) May 13, 2020

"Most of us feel that the number of deaths are likely higher than that number,” Dr. Anthony Fauci says when asked by Sen. Bernie Sanders about estimates from experts that the death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. is higher than 80,000. https://t.co/jKdLnMIyxh pic.twitter.com/vglVLkE2Aj

— ABC News (@ABC) May 12, 2020

As President Trump elevates hyper-partisans during the coronavirus pandemic, @JohnAvlon says “America is a getting a crash course in why competent government matters.”#RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/fhxfJlhyV6

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 11, 2020

Trump elevated a criticism of Brian Stelter for suggesting that Fox was more focused on Flynn than the virus. But it has been — as has Trump. https://t.co/FZXvnJcDSG

— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 11, 2020

President Trump’s aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thankshttps://t.co/sc2rt1IvBy

— POLITICO (@politico) May 12, 2020

FREE THE WHITE HOUSE! https://t.co/TDK5brKbD1

— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) May 11, 2020

Nationally, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise once New York region is excluded from totals. New cases across the nation also continue to build, although some of that is function of more widespread testing. New York is showing sustained declines for more than two weeks pic.twitter.com/mPP2TwhBdh

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) May 10, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci now going into “modified quarantine” after being in close proximity with the White House staffer who was positive, @jaketapper reports. Fauci joins CDC’s Dr. Robert Redfield and FDA’s Dr. Stephen Hahn who are also in quarantine as a result.

— Alex Marquardt (@MarquardtA) May 10, 2020

Trump says that the fact a Pence staffer tested negative for a long time but now tested positive shows "the whole concept of tests aren't necessarily great," because someone can get the virus between tests.

This is precisely why experts say we need widespread frequent testing…

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020

1. On February 28, just 71 days ago, Donald Trump held a rally in Charleston, South Carolina

Since then there have been 1,323,068 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S.

78,639 Americans have died.

Let's review what Trump said on February 28.

Because he'd like you to forget.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 9, 2020

NOW: From the pool. COVID19 cases in the West Wing. Masks? Not so much. ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ pic.twitter.com/wY2ZFlp6nf

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 9, 2020

Asked why President Trump didn’t wear a mask while honoring WW II veterans in their 90s—just a day after one of his personal valets tested positive for COVID-19—press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, “They made the choice to come here” https://t.co/UTLLh3i9kH pic.twitter.com/fZmUWdPu1m

— Forbes (@Forbes) May 8, 2020

“After learning one of his valets was infected, Trump became ‘lava level mad’ at his staff and said he doesn’t feel they are doing all they can to protect him from the virus.”https://t.co/76S5voSDho

— Jen Taub (@jentaub) May 7, 2020

“This pandemic reminds everyone that none of this is a drill – who you choose to lead the government."

Ari talks to Rolling Stone about "Fact-Checking a Feckless President" https://t.co/zuDsc4ZwRx by @brooklynmutt

— The Beat with Ari Melber 📺 (@TheBeatWithAri) May 8, 2020

"Rather than waging war against the disease that is causing such pain, he is waging one against statistics, fearing that the data will tell for all time the story of his utter failure."@djrothkopf on the overlap of Trump's inhumanity and hatred of facts:https://t.co/CCoULBXWFD

— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) May 8, 2020

AP Exclusive: Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report https://t.co/bmTUAXOSKd

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 8, 2020

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirms a member of Vice President Mike Pence's team tested positive for coronavirus pic.twitter.com/3VaUXbwMq7

— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) May 8, 2020

Trump: Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of the sudden today she tested positive… This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great pic.twitter.com/iM9Xo3jddU

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 8, 2020

GOP lawmakers urge Trump not to support additional funding for state, local governments amid the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/6uotU7nPgo pic.twitter.com/4IxVNxA2Ji

— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2020

CNN’s @jaketapper offers some perspective on the US coronavirus death toll: “There are more people that have died from coronavirus in this country than you see in this photo” of Michigan State’s Spartan Stadium. pic.twitter.com/HuFnhSGhFJ

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 7, 2020

AP Exclusive: The Trump administration shelved documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places during the still-raging pandemic. https://t.co/dWRN1tcipD

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 7, 2020

JUST NOW: "If you are going to suggest someone jump into the deep end of a pool…why take away the instruction manual for how to swim?"

Reaction to breaking news that WH has blocked release of CDC guidelines for safe re-opening.

@NewDaypic.twitter.com/Fsp4A9olIt

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) May 7, 2020

Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director, discussed "10 plain truths" about Covid-19 during a hearing on the pandemic response.

"In my 30 years in global public health, I've never seen anything like this," Frieden said. "It's scary. It's unprecedented." https://t.co/FpZS2vNMJN

— CNN (@CNN) May 7, 2020

They blasted “Live and Let Die” while Trump walked around a Honeywell plant today in Arizona without a mask. It’s hard to believe this clip is real. pic.twitter.com/M1dMe8KaMK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 5, 2020

Pres Trump said yesterday the WH will phase out its coronavirus task force. He explained by saying, “Well, because we can’t keep our country closed for the next five years.”

Today, a total about-face after backlash.

Trump saying now task force will "continue on indefinitely." https://t.co/hxmXcA3PSz

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 6, 2020

President Trump: "We have so much testing, I don't think you need that kind of testing or that much testing." pic.twitter.com/eqPcKvF67m

— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2020

Yes this actually happened: “Jeanine Pirro, the Trump stalwart and Fox host, repeatedly contacted task force members and FEMA officials until 100,000 masks were sent to a hospital she favored” https://t.co/3bBLSKw2pl

— Elise Jordan (@Elise_Jordan) May 6, 2020

NEW from me & colleagues: Jared Kushner put bewildered 20-something volunteers with no disaster or medical experience at the forefront of PPE sourcing. The result: “bureaucratic cycles of chaos,” according to one who became a whistleblower.https://t.co/Wd3QLrt4sB pic.twitter.com/exJ08XrRAs

— Jodi Kantor (@jodikantor) May 6, 2020

A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, “Morning in America”, doing everything possible to….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2020

And here's the ad that's causing this temper tantrum. Enjoy.https://t.co/6eyl7knaoh

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 5, 2020

Trump moves to replace watchdog official whose report identifying critical medical shortages last month amid the coronavirus pandemic embarrassed the president. https://t.co/I39mQZ6lqQ

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 2, 2020

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— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 1, 2020

Don't forget this one, states.

Trump's playing chicken with lives and jobs.https://t.co/qzWwRLGeYw

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) May 1, 2020

Asked if Trump's tweet in support of the Michigan protesters were specifically about people who stormed the building, McEnany responded, "The president was referencing generally that in this country you have a First Amendment right to protest." In fact, he was much more specific.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 1, 2020

.@chrislhayes: "You can see where the Trump administration's priorities lie…use that heavy hand of government to get those workers back in those factories, cutting up meat, maybe infecting each other with the virus."https://t.co/3o48VCE7Pd

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 29, 2020

BuzzFeed News: After one tweet to President Trump, this man got $69 million from New York for ventilators.

The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators.https://t.co/AQAiQQBxDU

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 29, 2020

As of this morning, 29 countries have conducted 50% more tests per capita than the US, 16 twice as much.

We are nowhere near the top of testing rates, though we are at the very top in per capita rates of infection and death. https://t.co/HIZ8wZzmzGhttps://t.co/pxoQzgjcFx

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) April 24, 2020

As an American currently in South Korea, it’s very interesting to me the stark contrast of how different the two countries’ response to coronavirus is. I don’t think most Americans fully understand the lengths that South Korea has undergone, so I’ll try my best to explain.

— Michael Kim (@michaelvkim) May 9, 2020

“It bothers me that this is still in the news cycle,” Dr. Deborah Birx says about Pres. Trump’s disinfectant remarks. “I worry that we don’t get the information to the American people that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from Thursday night" #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/eu9n1jCVkO

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) April 26, 2020

And now, a message from Dr. Anthony Fauci. #SNLAtHome pic.twitter.com/LYemNAWaAT

— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 26, 2020

The year of “magical thinking” that led us to our sorry state, recounted by @JoeNBC. https://t.co/LMv4fE9Nhh

— David Ignatius (@IgnatiusPost) April 26, 2020

“A new Republican strategy memo advises Senate candidates to blame China for the coronavirus outbreak, link Democrats to the Chinese government and avoid discussing President Trump’s handling of the crisis.” https://t.co/XybtBjEObJ

— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) April 26, 2020

White House officials are discussing plans to replace Health and Human Services secretary – CNNPolitics https://t.co/KsOiMmBx1h

— David P Gelles (@gelles) April 26, 2020

Today, the Trump campaign launched its official "Trump 2020" app.

Its developer @phunware received a $2.85 million loan from Paycheck Protection Program, nearly 14X the current PPP average of $206,000.

More via @CBSNews @GrahamKates @stephengandel 👇👇 https://t.co/WLdZ5dnXfq

— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) April 23, 2020

U.S. says will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch https://t.co/3Sid0jvOrY pic.twitter.com/eFAuKO55Lz

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 25, 2020

When Bill Bryan presented the findings of a new study at the task force meeting Wednesday, POTUS wasn't there. When Bryan returned the next day, he again wasn't there. Instead Bryan hastily filled Trump in before the press briefing. With @Kevinliptakcnn https://t.co/UUvTPGWFTM

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 25, 2020

Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him https://t.co/q0Kid1eSv0

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2020

The Trump White House is a black hole of credibility. Proximity to the president sucks the believability out of everyone who makes the mistake of associating with him. https://t.co/ECCrP2zmKt

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 25, 2020

UPDATE: President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ has unfollowed me on Twitter, hours after I wrote this ⁦@DailyMail⁩ column: pic.twitter.com/uRncON3Up7

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 25, 2020

Household cleaners and disinfectants can cause health problems when not used properly. Follow the instructions on the product label to ensure safe and effective use. Learn more about cleaning and disinfecting your home: https://t.co/PW0UbW8KeE. pic.twitter.com/rdcR9QJNIR

— CDC (@CDCgov) April 24, 2020

The world’s biggest manufacturer of disinfectants issues stark rebuttal of President Trump’s suggestion that injecting them could help treat coronavirushttps://t.co/4DeSpjssvD pic.twitter.com/hm2CFV32Et

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 24, 2020

Here is a thing the former commissioner for the FDA felt he needed to say this morning: https://t.co/u6wAHWmKSh

— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) April 24, 2020

Reporter: Could you clarify your comments on injections of disinfectants?
Trump: I was asking the question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen…
Reporter: But you were asking your medical experts to look into it pic.twitter.com/T0hzizjgpN

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 24, 2020

New: FDA warns of serious side effects associated with the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine touted by President Trump to treat coronavirus, including potentially life-threatening heart rhythm problems.
https://t.co/zb1lpv0o19

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 24, 2020

President Trump appears to be openly mulling coronavirus treatments that could cause people to poison themselves, and has a record of deflecting from the reality of the virus to peddle optimism that may not be matched by facts | Analysis by @stcollinson https://t.co/a5FgYufSLI

— CNN (@CNN) April 24, 2020

These days, Trump is angry "even at Fox," for "not portraying him as he would like to be seen," @katierogers and @anniekarni report https://t.co/b9kR5tLsaR

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 24, 2020

A @Reuters special report: HHS chief Alex Azar tapped ex-professional Labradoodle breeder to coordinate the coronavirus response https://t.co/i6fU90uRgY pic.twitter.com/ka4ft86FWl

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 22, 2020

New: Gov. Cuomo says preliminary results of large NY hydroxychloroquine study showed it "didn't really have much of an effect on the recovery rate"; lead researcher says "no statistically significant difference" between patients who took it and didn't: https://t.co/XtCNhoA32l

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2020

Today in @VanityFair, I wrote about my husband @jrwortman’s terrifying experience battling #COVID19 as we struggled to get tested: https://t.co/p3v6WF8WGH

— Dodes (@racheld) April 22, 2020

SCOOP – Dr. Rick Bright says in statement he was pushed out of BARDA for a narrower, more limited role at NIH for wanting to use science to test treatments for COVID19, specifically the administration push to get chloroquines in wide use https://t.co/T6DHLIYWnC

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 22, 2020

President Trump and Vice President Pence both called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday night and expressed support and praise for the Republican's move to reopen businesses in his state starting Friday, a source familiar with the call said. https://t.co/uelsh2Go42

— CNN (@CNN) April 22, 2020

What do countries with the best coronavirus responses have in common…women leaders. #coronavirus https://t.co/56MpfmR77t

— Lina Rozbih (@LinaRozbih) April 21, 2020

Trump has always essentially been both landlord and leaseholder on his DC hotel. Now he wants a break on the rent his company pays because of financial hardships produced by the coronavirus crisis. https://t.co/mbsMpCs4Vy

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) April 21, 2020

@DanCrenshawTX "Two days later he implemented a restricted travel ban"

That restricted no one and accomplished nothing.https://t.co/hDx8F7s1Wv

A Travel Ban SOLVES NOTHING! TRUMP DID NOT HELP BY DOING THIS! Proof?

— David Limbaugh – DavidInMidTn on Threads (@david4potus2020) April 20, 2020

Literally everything Trump did in February and everything he said about the virus so that you may judge for yourself how robustly he was addressing the growing problem. https://t.co/zGNk4JXOi7

— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 21, 2020

This is utterly ludicrous, and no one should grant it even a shred of credibility for even a second. See @econjared's comments to me on this here: https://t.co/ixjLYKZcAF https://t.co/ACYRDk6OxN

— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) April 21, 2020

Trump's attacks on American institutions now have become attacks on America's immune system, and on its citizens. My new @CNNOpinion: https://t.co/KyfYmSDpnb

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) April 21, 2020

NEW: More than a dozen U.S. personnel at the WHO, many from the CDC, transmitted real-time information about Covid-19's discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration. Report by @KarenDeyoung1 @bylenasun @emilyrauhala, building on @Milbank scoop https://t.co/xTzYxzEkSB

— Ellen Nakashima (@nakashimae) April 19, 2020

President Trump’s claim that states have enough tests to reopen “is just absolutely false,” says Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. “It’s not accurate to say there’s plenty of testing out there and the governors should just get it done. That’s just not being straightforward.” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/0K48hRAgzI

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) April 19, 2020

Trump ads will try to blame our COVID plight on Biden’s China comments! Just how stupid do they think Americans are?https://t.co/WorhhTlMW2

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) April 19, 2020

This is the most devastating political ad I’ve seen in years. It reveals the truth about Trump and China, and that truth is ugly. https://t.co/52cNf9Ay9u

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 18, 2020

NEW: Inside three weeks at the Parker Jewish Institute- a long term care facility in Long Island. It has a total of 179 positive cases, 48 deaths as on Thursday. But nurses there say that number has gone up. https://t.co/tQqm0L0i38

— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) April 18, 2020

Trump's praise of China wasn’t just incompetence. It was hideous dishonesty and depravity, @paulwaldman1 and @ThePlumLineGS write https://t.co/y84gR5RDFk

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) April 18, 2020

FACT: Only 3.5 million tests have been administered so far. And now Trump is walking away, breaking more promises:

March 6: "Anybody that wants a test can get a test

March 10: There would be 5 million tests in a week

March 20: There would be 27 million tests by end of March pic.twitter.com/epu4ULVbVN

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) April 17, 2020

You can get whiplash watching President Trump change his tune on China and Covid-19, @JohnAvlon says. But what’s really behind the Jekyll and Hyde routine? Avlon cuts through the noise with today’s #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/Ha0ER62ERm

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) April 17, 2020

Discontent with leading the most inept and lethal response to a life and death crisis in American history, Trump reached for a new low today by igniting what will soon be known as a “liberation movement.” The “Libbers” are here. A new chapter of crazy in American life is born(1)

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) April 17, 2020

Trump’s "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" tweets incite insurrection. That’s illegal, writes Mary McCord of @GeorgetownICAP https://t.co/lVfWquvs3C

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) April 18, 2020

Opinion: With this president, the buck always stops somewhere else https://t.co/kBE91eicLu

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 18, 2020

"After blaming almost everyone under the sun…and taking no responsibility himself, the President now has engineered a safer political environment where he cedes his leadership in return for being critic-in-chief," writes @joelockhart https://t.co/xpJ3teqkSo

— CNN Opinion (@CNNOpinion) April 17, 2020

Opinion: Trump refuses to lead a country in crisis https://t.co/oU9whPxZA5

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 17, 2020

‘Why would NYC want to inflate a death toll? … It’s bad enough as it is.’ — Gov. Cuomo slammed Trump for accusing NY of inflating its death toll pic.twitter.com/aydxzQIP2E

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) April 17, 2020

The president keeps talking as if all the governors are now perfectly content with their supplies situations. They aren’t. Here’s what Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said on CNN tonight: https://t.co/WrC8bzR9yk pic.twitter.com/V5a80n93eA

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 17, 2020

The short of it: Grainger, acting as the silent partner in a deal between the federal government and two other companies, bought coveralls at $4 apiece from DuPont and then sold them to Uncle Sam for $7.96 apiece. https://t.co/trmYrh5vr8

— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) April 18, 2020

Additional details: Trump’s call this afternoon featured Elon Musk supporting a partial reopening & talking ventilator excess, Condoleeza Rice explaining challenges for universities & others including economists including Stephen Moore & Art Laffer. https://t.co/BRtRKWek64

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 16, 2020

Illinois governor: "I've given up" on any federal promises for coronavirus aid https://t.co/k664oDxeoy pic.twitter.com/cpsfnadY8x

— The Hill (@thehill) April 15, 2020

.@kaitlancollins: "You said when someone is president of the United States their authority is total. That is not true. Who told you that?"

President Trump: "We're going to write up papers on this…the governors need us one way or the other…" pic.twitter.com/fg1nacXbPA

— CSPAN (@cspan) April 13, 2020

The President falsely claimed today that the media ignored the coronavirus in January & February. We have receipts: https://t.co/qXilEE4q8R pic.twitter.com/WqEwyi8bFF

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) April 14, 2020

"President Trump is trying to deflect blame once again, taking aim at the World Heath Organization. But our investigation found there are plenty of questions about what the Trump administration did and failed to do in the coronavirus response." CNN's Sara Murray has more. pic.twitter.com/aHjkcHurbc

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) April 15, 2020

President Donald Trump's decision to withhold funding to the World Health Organization pending a review of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic is "as dangerous as it sounds," Bill Gates has said https://t.co/p7JL2dDP6l

— CNN (@CNN) April 15, 2020

I served for two years in the Trump administration. There’s never coherent planning on anything because Trump himself eschews process and reacts to whatever is in the news. It’s all chaos and spasms—and it won’t change so long as he’s president. https://t.co/90m4sdyJ7u

— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) April 11, 2020

As newspaper reporter-living through this in real time obviously as we are all-it was chilling to read these emails and watch this disaster unfold, day by day, as fed gov medical experts attempted to urge political leaders to act. "Flying blind" pic.twitter.com/ghw3biA1QA

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) April 11, 2020

When we reported weeks ago that the president was getting irked by Fauci, some aides denied it. Tonight, the president RTed a post with a “fire Fauci” hashtag. https://t.co/hUiXqb13di

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 13, 2020

In the Oval Office meeting, Mnuchin argued that further restrictions were going to destroy the economy. O'Brien, sounding exasperated, said the economy would be destroyed regardless if the virus spread https://t.co/4pgKT9vg2h

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 11, 2020

Another radical Islamic attack, this time in Pakistan, targeting Christian women & children. At least 67 dead,400 injured. I alone can solve

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2016

Admin officials "say the White House has made a deliberate political calculation that it will better serve Trump’s interest to put the onus on governors — rather than the federal government — to figure out how to move ahead."

Let that quote sink in… https://t.co/v2QVZBXslD

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 11, 2020

Trump Bashes Fox News Weekend Coverage as 'Total Waste of Time' Just Minutes After Hard-Hitting Report on Testing Shortages and Rising Deaths at VA Hospitalshttps://t.co/89bUZALTuQ

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) April 11, 2020

The federal stockpile is distributing its last remaining N95 respirators, surgical masks and other supplies desperately needed to protect front-line medical workers treating coronavirus patients, the government says. https://t.co/sPGewbNwtu

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 9, 2020

The federal government will end funding for coronavirus testing sites on Friday. While some sites will transition to being state-managed, others will close as a result. This as criticism continues that not enough testing is available.https://t.co/DuBCbJoRDO

— All Things Considered (@npratc) April 8, 2020

400,000 cases later, Trump defends his February claim that the coronavirus was going away on its own https://t.co/HjokU5qsoN

— Vox (@voxdotcom) April 7, 2020

New CNN poll: 55% of Americans now say the federal government has done a poor job preventing the spread of coronavirus in the US, up 8 points in about a week, 80% feel the worst of the outbreak is yet to comehttps://t.co/AHf1FywMAE
from @jennagiesta

— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) April 8, 2020

White House that promised us 27 million tests by March 31 hails the completion of 2 million tests by April 8. https://t.co/MdtnmQ6fB4

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) April 10, 2020

Fauci says US needs to double testing capacity to safely reopen https://t.co/XbjZEtlQQR pic.twitter.com/OrIQwI8zdm

— The Hill (@thehill) April 26, 2020

This WSJ piece by @rebeccaballhaus @cdweaver on the testing fiasco is well worth your time, including excellent reporting on that Abbott Labs box Trump touted at his recent presser, and what happened next that could be ripped from a Veep script https://t.co/hbmGCX0rfA via @WSJ

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 20, 2020

Harvard researchers have warned that if the country wants the economy to open back up — and stay that way — testing must go up to at least 500,000 people per day. https://t.co/KNfItNrx4o

— CNN (@CNN) April 20, 2020

White House boasts that more than 3 million coronavirus tests have been conducted. "That's barely 1% of the population three months into a crisis," writes ⁦@Peggynoonannyc⁩. "That's not an achievement, it's a scandal." https://t.co/kmGXeMuAu3

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 18, 2020

Thread (1/n)

2 weeks ago, we tested about 100,000 people in a day.

Today, we tested 135,00.

That is a measly 35% increase. In 2 weeks!

During that time, # of cases has increased nearly 500%

# of daily new cases has increased 82%

And the % positive has gone from 17% –> 23%

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) April 9, 2020

Trump: “We really inherited bad tests. These are horrible tests. And it was broken.”

Epidemiologists:

“Doesn’t make sense.”

“Absurd.”

“He is lying because he is trying to shift blame to others, even if the attempt is totally nonsensical.”https://t.co/JUMlQB0cah

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2020

“It is being contained.” One month ago today Kellyanne Conway chastised me for suggesting #COVID19 was spreading across US. @CBSNews #Quarantine #CornavirusOutbreak #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/L4ApHezmJs

— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCNN) April 6, 2020

Trump attacking the ⁦@WHO⁩ “because it trusted China’s assurances that the virus was under control and did not pose a global threat” is hilariously hypocritical.

TRUMP 1/24: “The US greatly appreciates China’s efforts and transparency.” https://t.co/qM0tBKDpp8

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 16, 2020

CBS and the NYT obtained a recording of Trump's conference call with governors. On the call, Trump said "I haven’t heard about testing in weeks." He touted the government's testing improvements, even though many sick people are still pleading to be testedhttps://t.co/2mfSzsev9X

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 30, 2020

How to ensure you don't get follow-up questions on Fox, apparently. pic.twitter.com/nOUqw4ZVhO

— Ben Smith (@semaforben) April 2, 2020

The Queen: “We’ll meet again”: pic.twitter.com/pEipHCWMXJ

— Bristol Ideas (@bristolideas) April 5, 2020

Despite measures to enforce social distancing and supply medical workers with the resources necessary to treat patients, "we are struggling to get (the pandemic) under control," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US' top infectious disease expert https://t.co/VznDJHy5kM

— CNN (@CNN) April 6, 2020

Author Grant Stern wrote on Twitter, "Kayleigh McEnany is coming to the White House with new "alternative facts" about #coronavirus. The rest of the world calls them LIES."https://t.co/6CCqprwxWi

— Grant Stern  (@grantstern) April 8, 2020

Finally. A national news story. https://t.co/eNEsNSedJq

— Kim-Mai Cutler (@kimmaicutler) April 8, 2020

The report serves as an indictment of Trump’s attitude that states should fend for themselves, @JRubinBlogger writes.

More details: https://t.co/mbpzxVIwtN

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) April 8, 2020

Re: Pearl Harbor analogies, @SBG1 says: "This is not a sneak attack by the Japanese. It's not even a sneak attack by this virus. To me, it's been like watching a slow motion car crash…" pic.twitter.com/lEGACExA51

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 6, 2020

The inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services describes a dire situation for front-line doctors and medical staff as coronavirus cases mount in hospitals.
Read here: https://t.co/sTZFaiaLKi

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) April 6, 2020

No, people getting on planes aren’t being tested.

No, Trump didn’t inherit old tests.

No, there’s no evidence of bias by the HHS deputy IG.

No, it’s not true Obama barely even noticed H1N1.

No, China didn’t just start spending money in the US. https://t.co/t6e0VDM7EB

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2020

My simultweet of @realDonaldTrump #TrumpPressBriefing

Testing? LIE!https://t.co/jTiRRkIOy4https://t.co/JNx5cDm2Wd

40 countries have tested more people per million

Next Lie?

Deaths per million doesn't require testing!

US 33 p/m South Korea 4

Canada 9 UK 79! pic.twitter.com/9rQ5pNR7HX

— David Limbaugh – DavidInMidTn on Threads (@david4potus2020) April 6, 2020

Power Up: The coronavirus vaccine race is on. But we probably won’t see one this year. https://t.co/Uzyk0JJmOP

— Post Politics (@postpolitics) April 6, 2020

Here's an incomplete list of what President Trump said and did in the past 7 days. (For reference whenever you hear about his new "tone.") pic.twitter.com/iuJNuZPMRZ

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 5, 2020

Trump on why he's giving medical advice even though he's not a doctor: "What really do we have to lose? … we don't have time to go and say, 'gee, let's take a couple of years and test it out' … it doesn't kill people." (This last point re: hydroxychloroquine is not true.) pic.twitter.com/zE0aN4iSFW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 5, 2020

Nearly every time Kentucky has placed an order for medical protective gear, Gov. Andy Beshear says the federal government has prevented its transfer. @WFPLNews https://t.co/MN1gMRdiv2

— NPR (@NPR) April 5, 2020

On Feb. 28, two days after we knew the virus was spreading in the wild, Trump compared complaints about his handling of it to the "hoax" Russia probe and impeachment. The main similarity between the three? How Trump has tried to play them politically.https://t.co/SrUundPwIn

— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 6, 2020

NEW: Inside the White House Situation Room yesterday, economic adviser Peter Navarro got into a heated dispute with infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci over the efficacy of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. Details here: https://t.co/lvpf9HRxy5

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) April 5, 2020

"We left behind a 69-page playbook, which was sort of ‘Pandemic for Dummies.’ If you don’t know where to start, start here, and ask these questions and do these things," @AmbassadorRice tells @CapehartJ in the latest "Cape Up" episode https://t.co/cXjMdiEJEl

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) April 5, 2020

Previously I called Trump the worst president in modern times—not of all time. But in the past month we have seen enough to take away the qualifier. With his mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump has established himself as the worst president in US history.https://t.co/SAkWgReoHI

— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) April 5, 2020

BURIED IN THE FINE PRINT: On page 203 of the stimulus bill passed late last night, there's a tax tweak that could save wealthy real estate investors $170 BILLION over 10 years.@JesseDrucker shines a spotlight on the little-noticed provision. https://t.co/8A7hiWUjpL

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) March 26, 2020

How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook – with millions of lives at stake https://t.co/thYB7eFVuX @KBAndersen @donlemon @jeremypgordon @GregDjerejian @TheRickWilson @billmckibben @MollyJongFast @arjenUSA @GeorgeMonbiot

— Ed Pilkington (@Edpilkington) April 4, 2020

Trump's Katrina will be a deadly pandemic. https://t.co/e4rMUQOAqs

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 5, 2017

When Jared Kushner stood at the White House podium on Thursday, what Americans heard was "a spine-chilling performance from a believer in small government, delivered at a time when only big government can save the day," @FridaGhitis writes for @CNNOpinion https://t.co/xsVCaUMax6

— CNN (@CNN) April 4, 2020

Here is Captain Crozier walking away from his ship while sailors chant his name after he was relieved from duty for blowing the whistle on a coronavirus contamination aboard the USS Roosevelt.

He sacrificed himself and it sounds like everyone knows it. pic.twitter.com/hwiu7Z1MVV

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) April 3, 2020

Capt. Brett E. Crozier, the Navy captain who was removed from command of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier after requesting more help for his sailors, has tested positive for Covid-19 https://t.co/ApGzukKL87

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 5, 2020

There are just too many stories of PPE supplies being shipped into hot spot states and being conficated by US customs when they arrive through an airport or US port. I’m not talking abt big amazon orders. This is states, massive hospital systems.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 4, 2020

CDC faces budget loss of hundreds of millions of dollars after #AHCA passes House: https://t.co/NFkRw3VWou

— Jamie Vernon 🇺🇸🔬🧬⚾️ (@JLVernonPhD) May 5, 2017

"The president seems oblivious to the fact that his own clown car of an administration bungled the priceless lead time to get ready for the pandemic.
After 7,000 deaths, Trump is focused on the same thing he is always focused on: himself. "@maureendowdhttps://t.co/7LF7rkGTA1

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) April 5, 2020

Guy Gordon, a retired newscaster in Detroit, tells an ugly and depressing tale about @realDonaldTrump and his treatment of General Motors: https://t.co/h0swL3RxbL

— Al Cross (@ruralj) April 4, 2020

NO
I
DON’T
TAKE
RESPONSIBILITY
AT
ALL…#Trumpdemic https://t.co/MtEuQsUZq6

— Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) April 4, 2020

Retired Navy Captain Larry Seaquist is not mincing words, in support of Captain Brett Crozier, who was just relieved of command of the USS Teddy Roosevelt. pic.twitter.com/lC2gpqjcC9

— VoteVets (@votevets) April 3, 2020

Jared Kushner calls victory on admin’s pandemic response: “When history looks back on this, they’ll say, man, the federal government acted really quickly and creatively, they threw a lot at the problem and saved a lot of lives,” he told WaPo https://t.co/1GJQVsody5

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) May 3, 2020

WATCH: @weijia presses President Trump on Jared Kushner's comment that the federal stockpile is not meant for states https://t.co/b9FtmY5sM4 pic.twitter.com/IWfuxXPb7Q

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 3, 2020

If the coronavirus had been a potential witness in his impeachment trial, maybe Donald Trump would have done more to stop it.

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) April 2, 2020

ALSO THIS: pic.twitter.com/l4t8yGYZQ0

— Anna Palmer (@apalmerdc) April 3, 2020

And that whole paid leave thing… yeah, not so much pic.twitter.com/vZuN9dP9yc

— Anna Palmer (@apalmerdc) April 3, 2020

Main Street/small biz bailout off to a rocky start. Laid-off workers report state jobless offices are overwhelmed. And banks say they need better guidance from Treasury before they give small biz loans.

— Christine Romans (@ChristineRomans) April 3, 2020

She was thrown off The View like a dog, Zero T.V. Personas. Now Wallace is a 3rd rate lapdog for Fake News MSDNC (Concast). Doesn’t have what it takes! https://t.co/F8azYEJHm5

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2020

Quick rundown of POTUS day.

Calls a female tv host a dog; Offers well wishes to a murderous despot; posts video congratulating himself on his election; Accuses members of FBI of treason; quote tweets pizzagate instigator; sends 15 tweets about assorted nonsense, 2 about covid.

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 2, 2020