"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."
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