Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
REPORTER: Do you expect your business to seek government assistance?

TRUMP: "I don't know."

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1241426080432521222

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

After Trump basically labels a reporter's question about a lack of surgical masks as fake news, Fauci takes the mic and tells the reporter, "you're not making things up. I know that."

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1241424354589671425

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-trump-news-conference.html



Call Trump’s News Conferences What They Are: Propaganda
Then contrast them with the leadership shown by Andrew Cuomo, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel.

By Jennifer Senior
Opinion columnist

In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts. Only the opposite is on offer from the Trump White House. It is therefore time to call the president’s news conferences for what they are: propaganda.

We may as well be watching newsreels approved by the Soviet Politburo. We’re witnessing the falsification of history in real time. When Donald Trump, under the guise of social distancing, told the White House press corps on Thursday that he ought to get rid of 75 to 80 percent of them — reserving the privilege only for those he liked — it may have been chilling, but it wasn’t surprising. He wants to thin out their ranks until there’s only Pravda in the room.

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“What do you say to Americans who are scared?” Alexander pressed.

“I say that you’re a terrible reporter,” Trump answered.

Only a liar — and a weak man with delusions of competence — would be so unnerved by the facts.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
"I'd like to begin by providing an update on what we're doing to minimize the impact of the Chinese virus" -- for the third straight day, Trump begins his news conference with some casual racism

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1241030822523744257

Ari Berman
@AriBerman

Outrageous news from Mitch McConnell’s home state: instead of passing emergency vote by mail law, Kentucky GOP legislature just rushed through new voter ID law at time when DMVs are closed & voters can’t get ID needed to vote

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1240819720523100161

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

almost like the United States has no President - we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!

9:41 PM · Mar 19, 2014·Twitter for Android

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/446461592029630464