"Ready? Will you please get me the mortality rate? Kayleigh is right here... I heard we have the best mortality rate" - the WH just flat out made up a chart to create a false impression that the US has the best mortality rate in the world during Trump's interview w/ Chris Wallace
"They have the sniffles ... many of those cases shouldn't even be cases" -- Trump is still downplaying the severity of contracting Covid-19
"It is what it is" -- Trump on the mounting US coronavirus death toll
"I'll be right eventually" -- Trump defends his comment that the coronavirus will "disappear" on its own
"I don't believe in that ... masks cause problems too" -- Trump on possibility of a national mask mandate (masks do not cause problems)
"When people proudly have their Confederate flags, they're not talking about racism. They love their flag. It represents the south. They like the south. People right now like the south. I say it's freedom of, of, many things" -- Trump
"I don't care what the military says" -- Trump dismisses military's support for renaming bases named after Confederate generals
"We won two world wars. Beautiful world wars. That were vicious and horrible. And we won them out of Fort Bragg, we won them out of all of these forts, and now they want to throw those names away" -- Trump
"First of all, I'm not losing. Because those are fake polls" -- Trump dismisses a Fox News poll showing Biden up by 8 points
"The Democrats are purposely keeping their schools closed, keeping their states closed. I called Michigan. I want to have a big rally in Michigan. Do you know we're not allowed to have a rally in Michigan?" - Trump dismisses health concerns, accuses Dems of conspiring against him
"I took the [cognitive] test too, when I heard you passed it. It's not the hardest test. It shows a picture and it says, 'what's that,' and it's an elephant." -- Chris Wallace pushes back on Trump hyping the cognitive test he passed at Walter Reed
"Religion will be gone" -- Trump offers some absurd fear-mongering about what will happen if Biden is elected
"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan, that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do" -- Trump routinely cites a two week timeframe for new policy initiatives when he's just making stuff up
"I'm not a big fan of Fox, I'll be honest with you" -- Trump 😂😭
TRUMP: "I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election."

WALLACE: "Are you suggesting that you might not accept the results?"

TRUMP: "I have to see."

WALLACE: "Can you give a direct answer that you will accept the election?

TRUMP: "I have to see."
WALLACE: "How will you regard your years as POTUS?"

TRUMP: "I think I was very unfairly treated."

WALLACE: "But what about the good parts?"

TRUMP: "I have done more than any POTUS in history in the first 3.5 years ... here's the bottom line: I've been very unfairly treated."
If Trump thought his pre-taped interview with Chris Wallace went well, he would’ve promoted it on his Twitter feed as he has with countless previous Fox News interviews. But he hasn’t done that. Draw your own conclusions.
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