Trump: "Speaking of politics, I think North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and other states, the Democrat governors should open the states. They'll open them on November 4th, but they should open them now."
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Trump ludicrously claims that economic shutdowns to combat the coronavirus kill more people "than the virus itself"
"We can probably have it sometime during the month of October" -- Trump's timeline for a coronavirus vaccine keeps getting pushed up
"Do all of the things that we've told you to do ... social distancing, wearing a mask" -- Trump held an event last night in Pennsylvania that was attended by many hundreds (if not thousands) of people where there was no social distancing and very few masks
LOL. After a bizarre aside about "central casting" college football coaches, Trump announces that Lou Holtz will be receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Trump on what he might do about the poisoning of Putin opponent Alexei Navalny: "If Hillary got elected, you would be at war with North Korea."
"It is interesting that everybody is always mentioning Russia ... but I think China probably at this point is a nation you should be talking about" -- Trump responds to a question about the Navalny poisoning
Trump can't understand people speaking English with an accent, example 1 billion
Trump with some deep thoughts about the country of India: "It's really an incredible place, an incredible country. And it is definitely big. It's definitely big."
"But I do get along with President Putin. But I've been tougher on Russia than anybody else by far." -- Trump is totally incoherent
Trump on if he regrets his 2015 comments that John McCain is only a war hero because he was captured: "I say what I say ... I disagreed with him on a lot of things. Time has proven me right, to a large extent."
"We're at about 180" -- Trump undercounts the US coronavirus death toll by about 7,000 people while downplaying models showing that tens of thousands of Americans will die between now and the end of the year
"Because of all these tests, we have far more cases" -- Trump still has no clue how coronavirus testing works
Trump murders irony by criticizing Cuomo for incompetent handling of the coronavirus
"It's a hoax" -- Trump on The Atlantic's report about him disparaging fallen American soldiers that has since been corroborated by Fox News
Trump insists the the sources for The Atlantic's story are either made up or disgruntled ex-staffers. Choose your adventure.
Trump demeans John Kelly while a reporter tries to ask him whether it's true that he disparaged American soldiers during a visit to his son's grave
"It's disgraceful. So I want to thank you all very much" -- Trump concludes the press conference by laying into reporters, then immediately thanking them 🙃
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