Trump begins the April 22 #TrumpPressConference by hyping that "more states will soon be in a position to safely reopen." What he doesn't mention is that April 21 was the one-day high for coronavirus deaths in the country.

Here's CDC Director Redfield trying to make a painstaking distinction between "worse" and "complicated" in an effort to walk back comments he made on the record indicating that a second wave of coronavirus this fall could be really bad

All this talk from Trump of the the virus "coming back" this fall seems to assume it's gone away, which it hasn't

"If you add up the testing of every nation in the world, we have done substantially more than that" -- This is a flabbergasting lie from Trump. The US hasn't done anywhere near that level of testing. (European countries together on their own have done more than the US.)

Trump accuses Pelosi of "having a rally in Chinatown" in San Francisco in February, which is another lie.

Trump says he told Georgia Gov. Kemp that he disagrees with his move to reopen businesses as soon as this Friday, but adds that "he must do what he thinks is right."

TRUMP: "On July 4, we will be doing what we had at the Mall. As you know, we're gonna be doing it. Last year was a tremendous success and I would imagine we'll do it, hopefully I can use the term 'forever.' That was a great success, as you remember."

Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917. Some of his signature falsehoods are just completely impervious to correction.

Trump suggests a number of public health experts don't think a massive increase in coronavirus testing is necessary for the US to safely reopen businesses, which I've seen no evidence of. (This talking point serves the purpose of making that viewpoint seem like a reasonable one.)

Trump's past tense economic boasts don't have the same juice as they did when they were present tense boasts

The first mention of the coronavirus death toll comes from Pence, who says, "there have been more than 843,000 who have contracted the coronavirus and we grieve the loss of 47,000 of our countrymen."

Dr. Fauci pleads for state officials to not "leapfrog things" and to follow the careful guidelines for relaxing social distancing outlined by the task force

FAUCI: "We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that. Because of the degree of transmissibility that it has, the global nature. What happens with that will depend on how we're able to contain it when it occurs."

Trump says he has never heard of Dr. Rick Bright, the HHS coronavirus official who says he was pushed out because of his resistance to Trump's hydroxychloroquine push

Here's Trump comparing the crowd he got for his speech last July 4th to crowds MLK used to get for his speeches

"Just, nice and easy" -- Trump preemptively tries to calm down @weijia before she asks him about testing shortfalls.

Trump on testing: "Every day it's growing, and it's growing very substantially." (This is false -- US coronavirus tests completed per day has been largely flat for about a month.)

Asked to say more about his disagreement with Gov. Kemp about his move to reopen businesses, Trump changes the topic to talking about how Kemp's victory represented a win in his proxy war against the Obamas

TRUMP: "We're taking very special care of our nursing homes and our seniors, other than me. Nobody wants to take care of me. Other than me we're taking care of our seniors."

TRUMP: "Ultimately we're doing more testing, I think, than probably any of the governors even want." (There is not a single governor to my knowledge who has expressed satisfaction with the current level of coronavirus testing.)

We've reached the open mic portion of today's press briefing

"Well shoot 'em out of the water" -- Trump takes the daily question from ultra-sycophantic OAN and uses it as an opportunity to talk like a tough guy about Iran

"Just a wise guy question, that's all" -- Trump demeans a reporter who dared to ask about public statements the surgeon general made a couple months ago recommending against wearing masks

"Have you studied him? Have you reported on him?" -- Trump takes umbrage after @weijia describes Dr. Bright, the HHS official who says he was ousted after he resisted Trump's hydroxychloroquine push, as "gifted"

Trump describes these press briefings that are ostensibly about a deadly pandemic as "fun" but quickly gets back on messages and tries to reframe things as being all about finding "solutions" to the coronavirus

TRUMP: "They like to [compare this to] 'the flu.' Nobody has ever seen anything like this. 1917 was the last time. We were attacked." (Trump himself has compared coronavirus to the flu and the pandemic he's referencing happened in 1918, not 1917.)

Trump closes the briefing by restating his lie that the US has done more coronavirus than "all those nations put together."