This briefing makes clear that the paramount concern for Trump is Trump — his self-image, what people write and say about him in the media, and whether he is praised or criticized.

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 13, 2020

Very manic and angry today. Monday medication or something.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 13, 2020

Breaking news on CNN: pic.twitter.com/hu87sTjnf6

— UnaffiliatedCNNBreakingNewsBot (@ATTENTION_CNN) April 13, 2020

So, we're going to the grievance portion of the "briefing" right out the gate.

— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) April 13, 2020

Straight up North Korea-style propaganda going on right now in the White House briefing room. Get a load of the dramatic music. pic.twitter.com/p3KO6Ap2Sp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 13, 2020

I would say he's losing his shit, but it was lost before he set foot in that room. The West Wing must have been a boiler room of hot crazy more than usual today.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 13, 2020

.⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ scowls at reporters in briefing room while video clips are played, that he says show what a great job he’s done in tackling #coronavirus – and not being recognized by the media pic.twitter.com/bFc5RLH6N3

— Jon Sopel (@jonsopel) April 13, 2020

Finally a reporter calls Trump out for wasting the time bought by the China travel restrictions, and not preparing or testing. THIS IS CORRECT. Trump’s response: “You’re so disgraceful the way you say it… You know you’re a fake.” https://t.co/MgNTQJtJAK

— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) April 13, 2020

Here's video of @PaulaReidCBS grilling Trump on what his administration did in the month leading up to the coronavirus crisis.

"You didn't use it to prepare hospitals. You didn't use it to ramp up testing." pic.twitter.com/3pvrn9EAug

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 13, 2020

Context: Peter Navarro shot himself in the foot on @60Minutes last night. https://t.co/gB62uis3QF

— Micheline Maynard (@MickiMaynard) April 13, 2020

“Just like we didn’t have ammunition, we didn’t have medical supplies.” Trump never gives up his old falsehoods, he just adds to them.

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) April 13, 2020

I stood behind that podium for two years and never engaged in anything close to what we saw today. This is North Korea type propaganda. We have a President who cares only about himself and not about Americans.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 13, 2020

Even given everything that’s happened in the last four years, this is unfuckingbelievable.

— Linwood Barclay (@linwood_barclay) April 13, 2020

The *only* benefit to seeing these paroxysms of anger and bile is that America can see in public what Trump is like in private.

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) April 13, 2020

The person who has to do Trump’s all-body spray tan has a worse one. https://t.co/pdUWIPvFSx

— Dli O’Doir (@dli_odoir) April 13, 2020

Fauci, in WH briefing room, tries to clean up his remarks from yesterday and says the “first and only time” he told Trump to do mitigation, he did so right after. He says when he told @jaketapper about “pushback” after making recommendation, it was the “wrong choice of words.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 13, 2020

Fauci having to soften that statement at the podium in front of Trump. This is painful to watch…

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) April 13, 2020

"The President of the United States calls the shots." "I take responsibility for nothing" Both statements made by Donald J Trump.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 13, 2020

"When someone is President of the United States, their authority is total." – Donald J. Trump, April 13, 2020.

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 13, 2020

Pence is defending Trump’s overreach on his authority and saying Trump’s power is “plenary.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 13, 2020

Not a single economist or public health expert. pic.twitter.com/ehQkQYEifh

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) April 13, 2020

Okay, okay: NO ONE had this on their Press Conference Bingo Card today. pic.twitter.com/EOEmxLUKlv

— Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) April 13, 2020

US election 2020: Bernie Sanders endorses ex-rival Joe Biden for president https://t.co/3rtPZBYEA2

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 13, 2020

Sanders campaign spokeswoman: "I don't endorse Joe Biden" https://t.co/OR4stxlODa pic.twitter.com/udgVEMbdRM

— The Hill (@thehill) April 13, 2020

He's going after Biden heavily; the Sanders endorsement must have freaked him out.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 13, 2020

Guardian front page, Tuesday 14 April 2020 – Revealed: how Britain missed three chances to bulk-buy protective kit pic.twitter.com/HBgNJLWxjE

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 13, 2020

UK missed three chances to join EU scheme to bulk-buy PPE https://t.co/2A3KqgMqEZ Ideology should never come ahead of the lives of our NHS and care home workers

— Gerry Lynch (@gerrylynch) April 13, 2020

Leading scientist, prof Helen Ward, Imperial College, Dept Infectious Disease Epidemiology

“We said lockdown earlier, we said test, trace, isolate. They decided they knew better. There will be a reckoning, and it will not be forgiving.”
https://t.co/SoyJrXy11N

— Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 (@fascinatorfun) April 13, 2020

Reckoned the UK’s Coronavirus job protection rules covered everyone? Think again: https://t.co/hiTZsCOKLD

— Robert Wright (@RKWinvisibleman) April 13, 2020

Health officials silent on extent of care home #coronavirus spread https://t.co/oBxu0c4FN6 pic.twitter.com/5HuhDxs7gA

— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) April 13, 2020

Powerful & distressing front page from @DailyMirror on the NHS & care workers who cared for all of us but who have lost their lives now to Covid 19 https://t.co/JbUIF3Xmlh

— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) April 13, 2020

NEW: ahead of tonight’s main thread, some fresh analysis of the factors that do — and do not — appear to influence the pace of countries’ covid-19 outbreaks.

First, for the per-capita brigade:

There is only a very very weak relationship between population and covid death toll. pic.twitter.com/Xn6s4JUX38

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) April 13, 2020

Emmanuel Macron says lockdown restrictions in France will begin to be lifted 11 May with a timetable of the how and when being published end of April. Says “Hope is re-emerging” and that France will be in position to test everyone showing symptoms by 11 May. #coronavirus

— Katya Adler (@BBCkatyaadler) April 13, 2020

Macron levels with the French people 🇫🇷 https://t.co/tbf83rTAQp

— HUW EDWARDS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@thehuwedwards) April 13, 2020

The fantasy that Macron is anything other than a standard-issue French protectionist when it comes to international trade or migration, as opposed to domestic deregulation, has a surprising number of adherents given the lack of supporting evidence. https://t.co/NT9nhffBkV

— Alan Beattie (@alanbeattie) April 13, 2020

Kiev authorities seal off Orthodox monastery that became coronavirus hotspot https://t.co/RsyuQtvH7t pic.twitter.com/TAIUqcpYfk

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 13, 2020

Coronavirus patients who don't speak English could end up "unable to communicate in their last moments of life" https://t.co/ijhZSd3sbm

— TIME (@TIME) April 13, 2020