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Trump has been having some trouble reading his prepared remarks
Trump is doing a show and tell with various coronavirus testing products
Trump characterizes the US coronavirus death numbers as "at the best part of the pack"
Trump is really trying to make "transition into greatness" a thing
"We had one of the best weeks in the history of our border between the United States and Mexico, our southern border" -- I'm not surprised people aren't excited to come to the US right now
Trump prematurely declares victory on the coronavirus: "We have met the moment and we have prevailed."
"Things happen" -- Trump downplays two White House staffers testing positive for coronavirus
Trump claims American workers will be able to get tested every day "very soon." (US testing capacity is nowhere near that level -- we're testing about 300k a day.)
Trump claims that the science of wearing face masks during a pandemic is "not a one-sided thing, believe it or not." (It is a one-sided thing.)
TRUMP: "You never prevail when you have 90,000 people [dead], 100,000 people, 80,000 people as of today."
TRUMP: "It is a transition to greatness, and greatness is next year, right from the beginning. I think we will do fantastically well." (Sounds like Trump isn't optimistic about economy improving during the election ... )
Trump's explanation for not wearing a mask is basically that everyone else is wearing one so he doesn't think he has to
REPORTER: Isn't there a double standard when WH staffers can get tested every day and normal Americans can't at all?
TRUMP: If we didn't get the tests, you'd be up complaining ... I understand you very well. Better than you understand yourself
TRUMP: If we didn't get the tests, you'd be up complaining ... I understand you very well. Better than you understand yourself
REPORTER: How can you recommend Americans go back to work when the White House cannot contain the spread among staff?
TRUMP: "I think we are doing a really good job and watching it, and I think it is very well contained, actually."
TRUMP: "I think we are doing a really good job and watching it, and I think it is very well contained, actually."
"It's a tiny percentage ... the children recover from that" -- Trump downplays a new potentially fatal coronavirus-related syndrome in children. An HHS official immediately clarifies that it's a very serious matter.
Trump lies and says "Germany and the United States are the two best in deaths per 100,000 people." The US is nowhere near the top of the list in this metric. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
"If someone wants to be tested right now, they will be able to get tested." -- this is not true
"Don't forget, people are dying the other route ... you look at drug addition. You look at suicides ... you could make the case it's in even greater numbers" -- Trump's argument on behalf of opening the economy immediately is a grim one
"The numbers are coming down very rapidly all throughout the country" -- Trump lies about coronavirus case numbers and casts doubt upon models projecting that more than 100,000 Americans could be dead by end of the summer
"You know what? I don't want to think about it even" -- Trump on his expectations for the ultimate US death toll
"I will mandate it, if you like" -- Trump tells a reporter he'll mandate that all people at nursing homes get tested for coronavirus if he likes
. @PhilipRucker: You appeared to accuse Obama of a crime yesterday. What did he do?
TRUMP: "Obamagate."
RUCKER: What is the crime?
TRUMP: "You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody."
TRUMP: "Obamagate."
RUCKER: What is the crime?
TRUMP: "You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody."
These guys want you to believe that you can just show up at a clinic right now and get a coronavirus test. You can't.
Trump still hasn't figured out that asymptomatic carriers spread the coronavirus
. @weijia: Why is this a global competition to you when Americans are losing their lives every day?
TRUMP: Maybe that's a question you should ask China.
WEIJA: Why are you saying that to me, specifically?
TRUMP: I'm saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.
TRUMP: Maybe that's a question you should ask China.
WEIJA: Why are you saying that to me, specifically?
TRUMP: I'm saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.
Trump throws a fit when @kaitlancollins of CNN tries to ask him a question and abruptly ends the press conference
It took one @PhilipRucker question to expose Trump’s latest "Obamagate" conspiracy theory as complete nonsense https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21255214/trump-obamagate-philip-rucker-coronavirus-press-conference
Trump’s White House banner claims “America leads the world in testing.” That’s wrong. https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21255128/coronavirus-testing-trump-white-house-briefing
