People are dying because of a deadly pandemic and Trump has Esper briefing the press about drug smuggling for obscure reasons

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, William Barr is out here talking about families being destroyed by ... [checks notes] ... drug trafficking. Completely beyond parody.

Bill Barr slathers Trump with praise, and then National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien follows up by slathering Trump with more praise

The coronavirus briefing is not a model of social distancing

"Well, number one, I think the president has a great relationship with President Xi" -- Robert O'Brien answers questions by parroting Trump's talking points

Trump is still shamelessly lying about how tariffs work. They are taxes on American businesses, not China.

Trump is talking about migrant caravans now. This briefing is barely about the pandemic that's killing hundreds of Americans every day right now.

"They don't know about social distancing" -- Trump claiming other countries aren't aware of best coronavirus practices while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of dudes makes for interesting optics

Asked about why he's tweeting about sensitive national security matters, Trump talks about how popular he is on Facebook

REPORTER: You used to say you don't want to give the enemy a heads up. Do you feel like maybe you did by tweeting a threat to Iran?

TRUMP: "No. I'm just giving them a warning."

The OAN person's first question was a loaded one meant to denigrate China. Her second was a loaded question meant to heighten tensions with Iran.

Trump bragging about economic numbers as they stood a month ago is like a high school football player still talking 30 years later about the big game from yesteryear

Trump hypes tax cuts for restaurants (methinks the deadly pandemic is a slightly more pressing problem for the industry!)

TRUMP: "Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I just found out I'm number one on Facebook." (Trump has 29 million followers; Obama has 53 million.)

Good to see that Trump is laser-focused on the coronavirus pandemic

REPORTER: Over 5 million undocumented immigrants who pay taxes won't receive aid from the government during this crisis. How do you suppose they survive?

TRUMP: "They came in illegally, and we have a lot of people who are citizens of our country who won't have jobs."

TRUMP: "We're gonna have a boom economy. I think it's gonna go up rather quickly. Maybe very quickly. And maybe slowly." #analysis

"I think what we're seeing health insurance companies do today is really inspiring" -- Pence's plan for Americans who don't have health insurance and get sick with Covid-19 is for them to rely on the insurance companies

"I think that's one of the greatest answers I've ever heard. Because Mike was able to speak for 5 minutes and not even touch your question" -- Pence was so evasive in response to a question about health care for uninsured people that even Trump teased him about it

Trump is now in the habit of trying to blame Obama, who left office in 2017, for the CDC botching the development of a coronavirus test in January and February 2020

"You know that's a false story" -- Trump hits back at John Roberts of Fox News after Roberts correctly notes that Trump disbanded the executive branch team responsible for coordinating responses to pandemics https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

A reporter tries to ask Trump a question about a surge in domestic violence but Trump mishears him and says, "about Mexican violence?"

After acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf answers a question, Trump stops him from leaving the podium and tells him, "can you talk about how tight that southern border is right now?"

"He's doing a wonderful job" -- Trump concludes the presser by praising Bolsonaro, who's doing such a poor job handling the coronavirus that state governors are ignoring him https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/brazil-bolsonaro-ignored-by-state-governors-amid-anger-at-handling-of-covid-19-crisis