The US has the most coronavirus deaths in the world, but Trump begins the April 18 #TrumpPressConf by claiming America "has produced better health outcomes than any other country, with the possible exception of Germany."

Trump attacks media for reporting stats indicating US has more coronavirus deaths than China: "China's number 1. Just so you understand. China is number 1 by a lot. They are way ahead of us in terms of death. It is not even close. You know it, I know it, they know it."

TRUMP: "You don't hear about ventilators. What happened to ventilators? Now they are giving you the other -- it's called, 'testing, testing.' But they don't want to use all of the capacity we have created ...the Democrat governors know that. They're the ones that are complaining"

TRUMP: "You have all been reading about the disproportionate numbers on African-American."

"We started with a broken system from a previous administration or administrations" -- Trump ludicrously tries to blame Obama for not preparing for a virus that didn't even exist under years after he left office

"Good job out there" -- Trump throws shade at his staff because of an alleged typo in his remarks

"Unfortunately, some partisan voices are trying to politicize the issue of testing, which they shouldn't be doing. Because I inherited broken junk" -- Trump absurdly tries to blame Obama for his administration's failures developing a test for a virus that didn't exist until 2019

"We started off with a broken system. We inherited a broken, terrible system. And I always say it -- our cupboards were bare. We had very little in our stockpile": Trump tries to blame Obama, who left office in 2017, for a virus that reached the US in 2020

"This should not be a partisan witch hunt, like the Russia witch hunt" -- it's public therapy session time for the president

"Mike Pence is a phenomenal guy. He is making the commencement address right now at the Air Force Academy where they are being very politically correct. 10 feet apart." -- Trump

Trump on Pence's call w/Dem governors: "I heard they were so rude. Rude and nasty. No matter what he said, which was all very positive in terms of winning this battle against the invisible enemy, no matter what he he said they were fresh. They were nasty."

TRUMP: "The big V for victory, or V for ventilator. Take a look at it. Everybody said they had us on that. But we got 'em done at numbers nobody would've believed."

An unhinged Trump trashes Maggie Haberman: "She came out and said Mark Meadows was crying. And they made it sound -- and it's okay if he did. I mean, look. But I think he was crying probably really for the wrong reason. They had it down. But he's not a crier ... she's fake."

Here is the conclusion of one of the most unhinged and bizarre rants I have ever heard Trump go on. Keep in mind this is a press briefing about a pandemic that is killing over 1,000 Americans each day right now.

"Does anybody really believe this number?" -- Trump interrupts Dr Birx's presentation to dispute the figure of China coronavirus deaths she cited

"We saw more bags [i.e. bodybags] on television than that" -- Trump interrupts Birx to question the number of coronavirus deaths reported by a number of countries (his implication is that the US hasn't really been hit as hard relatively speaking as the numbers indicate)

Trump is fixated on doing everything possible to try and pin blame on Obama. It's pathological.

Trump attacks the media for not reporting what he thinks are the correct number of coronavirus deaths in China, even though his own government health agencies are citing the same number.

"You talk about, potentially, lives like no one has seen since 1917" -- Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917

"It could have been billions of people if we had not done what we did" -- Trump absurdly claims that his move to restrict travel from China saved a billion or more lives

"Keeping reading your question" -- Trump tries to humiliate a reporter from Talk Media News because he didn't like his question

"The Christian faith is treated much differently than it was, and I think it is treated very unfairly." -- Trump accuses AOC and Ilhan Omar of being biased against Christians and for Muslims

Trump insists on taking a question from ultra-sycophantic OAN and uses it to trash Nancy Pelosi

Dr Birx says she has faith in Ron DeSantis's handling of the coronavirus

"A governor that is under siege" -- Trump justifies his tweet calling for his supporters to "LIBERATE" Virginia by attacking the state's governor

"They are trying to take that 2nd Amendment right away ... when I say 'liberate Virginia,' I would say liberate Virginia.": Trump falsely accuses Virginia Democrats of wanting to ban the 2nd amendment

"I received a nice note from him recently. It was a nice note" -- Trump is back to talking about receiving love letters from totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un

He then accuses Obama of leaving him "no medical"

Trump rants about Iran, accuses John Kerry of breaking the law, lies about tariffs, and botches facts about the Chinese economy -- all in this one clip

Trump concludes one of his most deranged performances by claiming (falsely) "nobody has been tougher on Putin than me," ranting about oil, & expressing surprise that the WSJ wrote an editorial that didn't criticize him.

The purpose of this event was ostensibly a deadly pandemic

I don't know how anybody can watch what I just saw and not be profoundly disturbed by the mental state of the President of the United States