NEW: Asked whether he was kidding when he claimed at his Tulsa rally he had instructed officials to slow down COVID-19 testing, Pres. Trump says, "I don't kid."

Yesterday, press sec. Kayleigh McEnany told @bgittleson the comments had been "in jest." https://abcn.ws/3dreSBh 

Yesterday, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Pres. Trump's comments at his Tulsa rally about slowing down the rate of COVID-19 testing were made "in jest," telling @bgittleson, "Any suggestion that testing has been curtailed is not rooted in fact." http://abcn.ws/3fSeQDV 

NEW: Asked to explain the president saying, “I don’t kid,” McEnany told reporters aboard Air Force One Tuesday that, at his rally in Tulsa, Trump “was making a serious point, but he was using sarcasm to do that.” http://abcn.ws/3fSeQDV