The job description is to be President of the United States. It should go without saying, that means ALL the states.https://t.co/eg7dY661SR
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) March 27, 2020
‘It’s been like a war zone’: Dr. Arabia Mollette and Dr. Allon Mordel share their stories from the frontline of New York's COVID-19 fight. Latest coronavirus updates: https://t.co/pK6rjLXuba pic.twitter.com/Wo1a43upeh
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 27, 2020
"My experience has made this pandemic much less abstract," writes Jeremy Egner, the television editor of The New York Times. "This is a national health emergency, and we must treat it with the seriousness it deserves." https://t.co/vVZxBIwWAl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 27, 2020
CNN chyron: "TRUMP INCORRECTLY SAYS U.S. HAS TESTED MORE THAN ANYONE; PER CAPITA S.KOREA HAS DONE 5X MORE, ITALY 4X MORE"
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 27, 2020
It is Donald Trump’s job to protect every American in every state. It doesn’t matter if that American voted for him or if the governor is sycophantic and effusively grateful.
If Trump lets people die for political purposes, and that is the case, it’s genocide.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 27, 2020
Trump is demanding over and over again that governors “be appreciative” of the hard work he, Mike Pence and his aides are doing on coronavirus — saying out loud that he expects praise from state leaders in exchange for federal help responding to the pandemic.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) March 27, 2020
‘I operate on facts,’ said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo when asked about President Trump's claim that New York was exaggerating its needs for resources to fight the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/EIpDwijBQc pic.twitter.com/hhrio8hToU
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 27, 2020
REPORTER: Gov. Cuomo had said 30-40,000 ventilators is what he needed…based on the experts that were advising him. What are you basing your assessment that he doesn’t need that many on?
TRUMP: I think their estimates are high, I hope they’re high, they could be extremely high. pic.twitter.com/rq66UsOS5o
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) March 27, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Top CDC official warns New York's coronavirus outbreak is just a preview https://t.co/EDz4CQAbym pic.twitter.com/YIbRL7qbI9
— The Hill (@thehill) March 27, 2020
New Orleans is doing worse at this stage of COVID prevalence than Lombardy or Wuhan did. https://t.co/7ofpIe2FgB
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) March 27, 2020
Donald Trump is already trying to keep pieces of his big business bailout secret, overriding Democrats’ transparency provisions >> https://t.co/cJNP4tYyCs
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) March 27, 2020
Dear Leader virus spreads unchecked in the bureaucracy. https://t.co/1MLR8vpkPq
— Tim Gibson (@timgibson) March 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/Doodelay/status/1243652661234356230
Planned layoff announcement right after United receives stimulus. CEO still getting paid.
I’m going to do my damnedest never to fly these guys again. https://t.co/sOHg6UYLnl https://t.co/sOHg6UYLnl
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 27, 2020
It remains not at all true that nobody thought such a crisis could happen.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 27, 2020
Can we bookmark the things people are telling Trump now are about to happen so there’s a record next week when he says “no one could have ever predicted”?
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 27, 2020
Elsewhere…
Boris Johnson, March 3: “I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were coronavirus patients and I was shaking hands with everybody… and I continue to shake hands”
Boris Johnson, March 27: I have coronavirus pic.twitter.com/X23tzi9BoG
— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) March 27, 2020
Mayor of Amity Island Eaten By Giant Shark https://t.co/udCum3ZOTV
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) March 27, 2020
To be fair, Matt Hancock has never been very good at social distancing pic.twitter.com/VxZvFnAULP
— Callum (@callumburns1878) March 27, 2020
dilemma for ministers as Richard Branson’s Virgin Airlines requests a bailout worth over £100m @fthttps://t.co/AtwPGtRMwf
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) March 27, 2020
Wembley's famous arch has been illuminated with the colours of the Italian flag in a show of solidarity by England amid the coronavirus crisis ❤️
"We are separated, but we are together. Forza Italia." 👊
England and Italy were due to play in a friendly at Wembley tonight ⚽ pic.twitter.com/Pueq6Rnigb
— Goal (@goal) March 27, 2020
Pope holds dramatic solitary service for relief from coronavirus https://t.co/ukZi2JeEJw pic.twitter.com/TPiaFOrJcS
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 27, 2020
In Italy, he discovered that his neighbor in the hospital so he continued to feed his dog until his neighbor returned…
A picture with a thousand meanings – Take care of your neighbors. pic.twitter.com/z6y5OIOFOU— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) March 27, 2020