Trump enters without a mask. Biden enters with one. And the final 2020 presidential debate is under way.

The literal first words out of Trump's mouth are a li . The "2.2 million" figure he mentions refers to a scenario where the government literally did nothing to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Nobody thought that was a realistic option.

"I've been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we've been able to do, with the -- if you take a look at what we've done in terms of goggles." -- Trump #wut

"Anybody responsible for that many deaths should not remain as POTUS. We're in a situation where there are 1,000 deaths a day now." -- Biden

"This is the same fellow who told us it would end by Easter, who told you don't worry, we will end this by summer. We are about to go through a dark winter." -- Biden

"He is xenophobic, but not because he shut down access from China." -- Biden

"We're leaning to live with it. We have no choice. We can't lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does ... I don't know, obviously he's made a lot of money someplace." -- Trump #wut

"He says 'we're leaning to live with it.' People are learning to die with it" -- Biden

Trump claims he was "kidding" when he suggested bleach might be a coronavirus treatment, which is not true

Trump's message for most all coronavirus questions is "we have to open our country"

"By the way, all the teachers out there, not many of you will die, so don't worry about it. Come on. Come on." -- Biden

"We have the best testing in the world by far. That's why we have so many cases" -- Trump (in fact the US has so many cases because there's lots of virus here!)

"I think he's a Democrat" -- Trump devotes some time to attacking Dr. Fauci

"His buddy Rudy Giuliani -- he's being used as a Russian pawn" -- Biden

Trump tries to gaslight people into believing that Russia wants him to lose

"We learned this president paid 50 times the tax in China" -- Biden goes on offense after Trump tries to pivot to Hunter Biden conspiracies

Trump pushes back on the NYT's report that he only paid $750 in federal taxes by claiming he "prepaid" millions of dollars

Biden on Trump's tax returns: "He's been saying [he'll release them] for four years. Show us. Just show us. Stop playing around."

Biden pushes back on Hunter Biden conspiracies: "The guy who got in trouble in Ukraine was this guy, trying to bride the Ukrainian government to say something negative about me, which they would not do."

Biden: "He embraces guys like the thugs like in North Korea and the Chinese president and Putin and others, and he pokes his finger in the eyeball of our friends, all of our allies."

Trump keeps trying to pivot to Hunter Biden conspiracy theories. He then gets fact-checked by Biden when he lies about who pays tariffs.

Biden: "There's a reason why he's bringing up all this malarky. He doesn't want to talk about the substantive issues. It's not his family and my family. It's about your family."

"We had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe, the rest of Europe. Come on." -- Biden on Trump's North Korea policy

"The difference between the president and I, I think health care is not a privilege, it's a right. Everyone should have the right to have affordable health care." -- Biden

Trump, who clearly doesn't want to talk about health care because he has no plan, tries unsuccessfully to steer the debate to fracking

"He's a very confused guy. He thinks he's running against somebody else. He's running against Joe Biden." -- Biden after Trump starts bashing Bernie Sanders

"The idea that the stock market is booming -- it's his only measure of what's happening. Where I come from in Scranton and Claymont, people don't live off the stock market." -- Biden

Trump responds by attacking Biden for moving away from Scranton when he was 13.

Biden after Trump attacks blue states: "I'm running as a proud Democrat, but I'm going to be an American president. I don't see red states and blue states. What I see is America, the United States."

Biden: "These first responders, we clap as they come down the street because they allowed us to make it. What is happening? They deserve a minimum wage of $15. Anything below that puts you below the poverty level."

Q: The US can't locate the parents of more than 500 children who were separated from them. How will they be reunited?

TRUMP: "These children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they used to use them to get into our country."

"These 500 plus kids came with parents. They separated 'em at the border to make it a disincentive to come to begin with ... it makes us a laughingstock, and violates every notion of who we are as a nation." -- Biden

"Only the reaaaaaallllllly-- I hate to say this, but those with the lowest IQ. They might come back." -- Trump

"Nobody has done more for the black community than Donald Trump" -- totally absurd

Biden brings up that Trump pushed for the death penalty for the Central Park 5, a group of Black and Latino teens who were innocent

"You know who I am. You know who he is. You know his character, you know his character. You know our reputations for honor and telling the truth ... the character of the country is on the ballot ... look at us closely." -- Biden

Trump responds by bringing up Hunter conspiracies

wut

Just noticing that my debate thread got broken in two places. Here's the next tweet in sequence: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1319463603334991875

And you can follow the rest of my debate thread to the end beginning here: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1319464085369593861