jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait Inspector general surveys 332 hospitals to find what they need to handle the coronavirus, Trump spends two days melting down over it Trump Melts Down Over Government Report on Medical Shortages President rages over survey showing doctors and nurses lack protective equipment, can’t get coronavirus test results. nymag.com 5:34 PM · Apr 7, 2020·TweetDeck 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Jesse Lee @JesseCharlesLee If you wanted proof that Trump has spent this entire crisis trying to cover up what was going wrong, and didn’t care at all about *fixing* what was wrong, this is it. 5:37 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted April 7 Author Share Posted April 7 1 hour ago, jakeem said: Raw Story @RawStory Revealed: ‘In denial’ Trump is furious he couldn’t spend the Spring campaigning and has to deal with a crisis instead Revealed: ‘In denial’ Trump is furious he couldn’t spend the Spring campaigning and has to deal... Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire explained on MSNBC Tuesday that President Donald Trump really wanted to spend the spring months attacking his Democratic opponents and working in full... rawstory.com 4:39 PM · Apr 7, 2020·TweetDeck Ahhhhhh .... poor wittle Twump. Those nasty people started dying and rained on his parade. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted April 7 Author Share Posted April 7 1 hour ago, jakeem said: Sara Cook @saraecook BREAKING: Defense Secretary Esper has accepted Acting Navy Secretary Modly's resignation following the leaked recording of Modly's comments on the USSS Theodore Roosevelt calling ousted Captain Crozier "naive" and "stupid." Esper notes that he "resigned of his own accord" 4:53 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App Ya think he said something stupid ? Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Mark Knoller @markknoller Despite rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths, Pres Trump says he "sees glimmers of very very strong hope." "We're gonna beat this virus with the grit and heart for which this country is known." He thanks Americans for following CDC guidelines "This is a monster we're facing." 5:48 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Joe Lockhart @joelockhart President confidently says our strategy is totally working as the death toll rises above 12,000. 5:46 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump begins at the briefing: "Today we continue to send our love to the great people of New York and New Jersey...we grieve alongside every family who has lost a precious loved one." He says the people of NY and NJ are "tough and strong and brave." 5:43 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump says we pray for Boris Johnson, who has always been "very good to us" and loves the USA as well as his own country. He thanks Americans for their efforts. He says of the phrase slowing the spread: "Nobody ever heard of it two months ago." He says this'll be a painful week. 5:45 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche Pres Trump: "I will protect you if your governor fails. If you have a governor that is failing, we're going to protect you. But the governors are working well with us over the last period of time." Note: Some governors have repeatedly said Trump's slow response is the problem 5:51 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Kelly O'Donnell @KellyO NEW LANGUAGE FROM TRUMP: "I will protect you if your governor fails" BUT he has insisted the federal government is the "BACKUP" 5:49 PM · Apr 7, 2020·TweetDeck 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump says he knows "for a fact" that some countries actually have more cases than the US but are not reporting them. 5:52 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump says they're seeing in the data the "disproportional" impact of the virus on African Americans. He says, though doesn't provide specifics, that they're doing everything they can to address the challenge. 5:53 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Joe Lockhart @joelockhart Trump still touting how great our testing is while the medical and scientific community still lamenting that we're flying blind due to lack of testing 5:55 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App 2 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump, reading, talks about how some people are struggling with mental health issues during this period. Ad-libbing, he says, "Some people are getting to know each other...some families...on a positive note." 5:55 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Robert A George @RobGeorge Trump is finally talking to some mental health professionals. Did I hear that right? 5:56 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump said earlier that the government will be receiving 110,000 ventilators by the end of June. He said he thinks they won't all be needed, hopes they won't all be needed, but, in that case, they can send some to other countries in need. 5:57 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5 Trump: I'll be asking Congress to provide an additional $250 billion for the paycheck protection program 5:58 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump: The WHO receives "vast amounts of money from the United States," the biggest portion of the budget, and "they actually criticized and disagreed with my travel ban...they were wrong...they've been wrong about a lot of things." 5:58 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump touts the loan program for small businesses, which he says will keep them open and paying employees. He claims that there will soon be "a rocket upward." 5:57 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Helen Kennedy @HelenKennedy Trump says the US is putting “a very powerful hold” on funding for the World Health Organization. During the worst global pandemic in a century. 6:01 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter for iPhone 2 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Alice Miranda Ollstein @AliceOllstein This comes just a few hours after he mused on Twitter about cutting the international health body's funding, calling them "China-centric" Trump threatens World Health Organization funding "The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look," Trump wrote on Twitter. politico.com 6:03 PM · Apr 7, 2020·TweetDeck 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump, praising himself for making good moves, again describes his China travel restrictions as "closing it down." As the NYT reported, nearly 40,000 people have flown from China since he imposed the restrictions, which are not a full ban. 6:01 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Daniel Dale @ddale8 Trump on the WHO: "They called it wrong. They called it wrong. They missed the call. They could've called it months earlier." Not sure what "called it" means; Trump has an extensive record of inaccurate downplaying of the crisis even after WHO warnings and a pandemic declaration. 6:03 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web Client Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 James Hohmann @jameshohmann Trump distances himself from his own former acting Navy secretary Thomas Modley after his resignation: "I've heard -- I don't know him -- he was a very good man. ... I don't know him. I didn't speak to him." 6:06 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter Web App 4 Link to post Share on other sites
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