"The governor of Maryland didn't really understand. He didn't really understand what was going on" -- Trump begins the April 20 #TrumpPressBriefing by attacking Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who has been critical of the federal coronavirus response.

"That's by Rich Lowry, respected journalist and person" -- Trump is now reading news clips

"You might just say one thing -- the quality of that wall": Trump asks a general to give an update on border wall construction during a briefing ostensibly about a deadly virus. (He ends up talking about what workers are doing to stay safe even though Trump didn't ask him.)

Trump touts the US during the highest overall number of coronavirus tests but hasn't mentioned that the country also has the most deaths

Trump flips through a packet of paper that's meant to illustrate all the labs state governments could use to do more coronavirus testing (in other words it's a form of passing the buck)

"Somebody years ago got this crazy idea, 'let's build all over the place. And let's have a screw for a cart delivered and made in a country that's far away'" -- Trump is using the coronavirus to make an argument for relocating supply chains to the US

Trump hypes possible coronavirus therapies and vaccines but conspicuous by its absence is any mention of hydroxychloroquine, the potentially fatal and unproven drug he spent weeks hyping

Trump suggests that demands for more testing, just like requests for ventilators, are part of a political conspiracy meant to take him down -- not necessary measures to respond to a virus that has killed more than 40,000 Americans

After Birx and an HHS official talk about the importance of coronavirus testing, Trump takes the mic and says, "by the way, not everybody agrees that we have to do that much testing. We're going maximum." (No expert thinks that.)

. @kaitlancollins: If stores open and workers get sick, will those companies be liable?

TRUMP: "I'll give you a legal answer to that when we look it up."

COLLINS: You guys haven't talked about that?

TRUMP: "No, but we will."

. @GeoffRBennett: In March we were promised 47 million tests. Roughly 4 million people have been tested. What happened?

HHS OFFICIAL GIROIR: "If the machines are not utilized and organized at that level, then they are not being utilized to its fullest."

. @kaitlancollins: If we have enough tests now for everyone to go into phase one, why is the governor of Maryland having to get tests from South Korea?

HHS OFFICIAL GIROIR: "I don't know what the governor of Maryland is doing in South Korea but there's excess capacity every day"

"The governor of Maryland could've called Mike Pence and saved a lot of money ... I think he needed to get a little knowledge." -- Trump on Larry Hogan (R) buying tests from South Korea

Asked about large companies benefitting from coronavirus stimulus legislation, Trump complains that the business he still owns and profits from didn't get any

"We've been defending them for many many decades ... last year I went to them and now they're paying $1 billion a year ... I said, 'I'll be back'" -- Trump's comments about South Korea are like a mob boss doing a shakedown

"Frankly, the allies have taken us more so than the enemies" -- Trump is using a press briefing ostensibly about a deadly pandemic to trash America's allies

"Where is the ventilator?" -- Trump is using the fact the coronavirus didn't end up being a worst-case scenario to dunk on governors who have said the federal government didn't do enough to provide them with ventilators

Trump says "I cannot tell a lie" and then lies about testing (he claims the US has done more testing than all other countries combined, which is not true)

. @Yamiche: Are you concerned downplaying the virus maybe got some people sick?

TRUMP: "And a lot of people love Trump, right? ... I think we're gonna win in a landslide."

TRUMP: I took coronavirus very seriously

ALCINDOR: You held rallies in February and March

TRUMP: I haven't left the White House in months

ALCINDOR: You held a rally in March

TRUMP: Did I hold a rally? I'm sorry

After getting grilled by @Yamiche, Trump makes sure to take a softball question from ultra-sycophantic OAN

Trump suggests Democrats are responsible for the coronavirus outbreak being so bad in the US because they were allegedly preoccupied with impeaching him instead of investigating China in January

Trump on the coronavirus death toll: "We are going toward 50,000 or 60,000 people ... many of the people that have this theory -- 'maybe we could've gone right though it' -- I was somebody that would've loved to have done that, but it wouldn't be sustainable."

Trump closes with this: "If we didn't do the moves we made, you would've had a million, a million and a half, 2 million people dead ... that's not acceptable." (He's referring to scenarios in which he literally did nothing.)

. @GovLarryHogan followed the president's advice and took his state's coronavirus testing capacity into his own hands. Trump attacked him anyway. https://www.vox.com/2020/4/20/21228817/trump-larry-hogan-coronavirus-testing-kits