The April 8 #TrumpPressBriefing begins with Mike Pompeo awkwardly standing around

Trump begins by saying, "on Sunday we celebrate our beautiful, wonderful Easter, which we all look forward to. We're going to have many Easters together in churches in the future ... we're getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was."

Mike Pompeo tells a tears story!

Here's Trump offering a sales pitch for PPE for health care workers like he's trying to sell a condo in Trump Tower

"Zinc. They say zinc. You should add zinc. Now this all has to be recommended by doctors. But they say zinc. I want to throw that out there." -- Trump touts unproven drugs

This is true. This week's scapegoat is the WHO. https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1248010958330449920

Trump wasn't eager to answer a question about when he first learned about the coronavirus and got through it as quickly as possible

Trump, to his credit, says he'll "rely very heavily" on health experts when deciding when to recommend the relaxing of social distancing guidelines (though he clearly wants to do it soon)

A reporter just asked Trump if he'd consider a pardon for Joe Exotic. Trump says he'll "take a look." #TigerKing

"I don't remember that" -- Trump dodges a question about whether he was ever briefed on memos Peter Navarro prepared for him in January and February warning that the coronavirus could be very bad. He also tries to shift blame to the WHO.

TRUMP: "If we can stay substantially under 100,000 [American deaths] -- which was the original projection -- I think we did a very good job."

Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917

Pressed by @Acosta to provide evidence of electoral fraud, Trump promises to get back to him and then cites a Judicial Watch story that PolitiFact rated "pants on fire" https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/24/donald-trump/pants-fire-trumps-latest-california-voter-fraud-cl/

Trump on why he's promoting unproven drugs as possible coronavirus treatments: "I'm not a doctor, but I'm a person with common sense."

Trump on Obama: "He's know something [about Joe Biden] that you don't know. That I think I know. But you don't know."

Trump on desire he stated two weeks ago to relax social distancing by Easter: "I don't think we're going to be very far behind. Some of these models are looking like Easter is going to be a very important date anyway b/c of the curve. It's hitting the top & starting to come down"

As he walks away from the podium, Trump is asked by @Acosta if he has any investments in hydroxychloroquine.

"No I don't. Good question," Trump replies.