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TRUMP on coronavirus: "The minimum number was 100,000 lives, and I think we'll be substantially under that number. Hard to believe that if you had 60,000 [deaths] -- you can never be happy. But that is a lot fewer than what we were originally told and thinking."
"We're not getting calls from any governors at this moment ... we're getting very few calls from governors or anybody else needing anything. They are in great shape." -- Trump
Trump mentions this week's stock markets gains -- but hasn't mentioned the fact that nearly 17 million Americans filed unemployment claims the last 3 weeks
Surgeon General Jerome Adams: "I have been carrying around an inhaler in my pocket for 40 years out of fear of having a fatal asthma attack. I hope showing you this shows little kids with asthma that they can grow up to be surgeon general one day."
Here's Mike Pence using the White House briefing room to solicit donations for Christian ministries
"They will reimburse us at a later date" -- Trump details his agreement to give oil to Mexico for future considerations. (I suspect he might eventually claim Mexico is paying for his border wall.)
Trump falsely claims that carbon levels in the atmosphere are "at its all-time best right now."
Trump says he doesn't think a massive testing protocol will be necessary because "people are not going to go to the hospital, people are not going to get sick" -- completely overlooking that asymptomatic people can spread the coronavirus
Trump says he hasn't seen his own government's projections that lifting shelter-in-place measures after 30 days would lead to a spike in coronavirus cases
TRUMP: "I told Tony Fauci -- I said, 'why don't you move to New York, run against AOC. You will win, easily' ... I kid."
Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917
"Do it for your abuela, do it for your grandaddy, do it for your Big Mama, do it for your pop pop." -- Surgeon General Jerome Adams's message to communities of color about avoiding drugs and alcohol
TRUMP: "I am very good at reading language."
"Vast areas of our country do not need this." -- Trump argues "there is no issue" with testing because there are enough to go around for America's most rural areas
Asked why he didn't have a specific coronavirus response plan for communities of color, Trump talks about [checks notes] low African American unemployment rates before the crisis hit
Surgeon General Adams says his use of "Big Mama" and "pop pop" wasn't meant to be stereotyping or offensive, but just reflects language used in his family
Trump was asked a question about if it's appropriate to cut funding to the World Health Organization during a pandemic. He responded by offering up this rant about trade.
Check out this rant while reminding yourself that this is ostensibly a press briefing about a deadly pandemic that has now killed more than 18,000 Americans
Here's Trump confusing millions, billions, and trillions
me me me me me
TRUMP: "The germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can't keep up with it ... there's a whole genius to it ... not only is it hidden, but it's very smart."
Trump's message to the nearly 17 million Americans who have filed unemployment claims is that he loves them. (At least he didn't attack the reporter asking him this time.)
Trump says "I want to get [the economy] open as soon as we can. We have to get our country open." Asked what criteria he'll use to decide when that's appropriate, he points to his head.
TRUMP on ending social distancing: "Staying at home leads to death also. It's very traumatic for this country. But staying at home, if you look at numbers, that leads to a different kind of death, perhaps ...so it's a very big decision. It's the biggest decision I will ever make"
Here's Trump claiming (falsely) that he has "absolute authority" to reopen the economy
Trump claim, falsely, that America currently has enough tests
"You shouldn't be asking that kind of a question ... it is very insulting to a lot of great people" -- Trump to @Acosta after he asked him about insufficient coronavirus testing
Reminder: FEMA requisitioned an order that the state of Colorado made from a private company for 500 ventilators just last week https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1248702630513311745
Trump closes with this: "We have to get back to work. We have to get our country open. But we could have lost 2 million people ... so I'm very honored by our decisions, all of us ... I have a big decision coming up. And I only hope to God that's it's the right decision."
Trump latest briefing revealed a president woefully confused about why more coronavirus testing is vital https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21216876/trump-coronavirus-briefing-testing-social-distancing-reopening-economy
