US may have to keep some social distancing measures until 2022: Harvard researchers https://t.co/yGupBbiQ0m pic.twitter.com/DKdV76006P
— The Hill (@thehill) April 14, 2020
Trump "Through the darkness we can see the rays of light…at the end of that tunnel, we see light…more than ever before." He adds, "Everything we've done, we've been very, very strong on it, and very powerful on it."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020
Trump: I was the smart one, the other countries in the world were stupid and followed WHO and that’s why everybody is dead.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 14, 2020
‘It would have been so easy to be truthful,’ Trump says of WHO.
The White House lawn right now is an irony-free zone.
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 14, 2020
There he goes again – trying to distract from his own failures and giving his base a new target – so withdrawing funds for WHO. Doesn't change the fact that his incompetence is killing our economy and putting our lives and health at stake.
— Karen Finney (@finneyk) April 14, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump announces suspending more than 400 m$ in contributions to World Health Organization while its handling of pandemic is under review. He also claims he saved 1,000’s of lives by banning travel from China but in fact 40,000 people came into US from China after ban
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 14, 2020
Trump hates international organizations, has long complained about the US supporting them. And he needs other people and entities to blame, especially after failing to act on warnings from within his own administration. So here we are.
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) April 14, 2020
WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30. Trump played down the significance of the pandemic for more than a month afterwards, only declaring a national emergency on March 13. https://t.co/nMD25Agpcc
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) April 14, 2020
Press: "WHO is to blame for the high death toll?
Trump: "Yes"
Press: "WHO?"
Trump: "That's what I said."
Press: "We asked about the party responsible for the deaths and you said WHO?"
Trump: "Yes"
Press: What about the CDC?
Trump: "Third base." https://t.co/QiwjjSfufv
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 14, 2020
Trump's special plea for himself on ventilators is actually a giant headfake to distract the press from the real disastrous flaw of the WH policy: the series of lethal mistakes on testing, which continue to this day. And which are due to Trump's denialism.
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) April 14, 2020
Thousands of health care workers are infected with coronavirus, a CDC report finds. https://t.co/jKDZxhUSEK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 14, 2020
Trump just washed his hands of the testing debacle. He’s now blaming the states for the fact that there’s insufficient testing.
And who is the reporter with the glasses who insisted on speaking over @BrianKarem when Brian was trying to get his question answered? Not cool. pic.twitter.com/cmPkDv4OCr
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) April 14, 2020
The VP, Birx, Fauci, other health experts do not speak tonight in the Rose Garden. Nor were they even by the podium. Presser ran a little less than 90 minutes.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 14, 2020
Trump: "The plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized and we will soon be sharing details and new guidelines with everybody."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020
Ha. Trump says he will be "authorizing" each governor to reopen their state at the time of their choosing.
This isn't his call; he doesn't get to authorize. The power is already theirs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020
A brewing showdown between President Trump and governors is setting the stage for a clash between federal authority and state authority unseen in modern times https://t.co/bzTuNhw1Dy
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 14, 2020
Stories like this bug me: Trump has "an idea" that he "got somewhere," that calls for counter-arguments from "experts." That's just not what's going on here. Trump has an authoritarian *impulse*. https://t.co/1XgnxgfBhA
— David Roberts (@drvox) April 14, 2020
What a president says is as important as what he does. The only way you could think that isn’t true is if you’re using special standards for this president because reacting proportionately to everything he says would make you seem more critical of him than you’d like to be. https://t.co/AMIN8C4Xjz
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 14, 2020
Trump's style is "rhetorical authoritarianism married with a striking unwillingness to use federal authority robustly," @qjurecic and @benjaminwittes write: https://t.co/1GCQxVVgTt
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 14, 2020
Fox's Bret Baier: Conservatives heads "would've exploded" if Obama said he had 'total' authority https://t.co/wcGIewJhSr pic.twitter.com/AKfhYIkZ8W
— The Hill (@thehill) April 14, 2020
It's now clear that the GOP effort to force voters to the polls in a pandemic backfired hugely.
Wisconsin Dems tell me the backlash was harsh. They saw lots of evidence that it fueled voter turnout, helping Karofsky pull off her big upset.
New piece:https://t.co/9GmTcW5qbl
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 14, 2020
"I'd like to ask all of you—would you please stand up?"
An airline captain, whose wife is a nurse, gave an emotional thank you to medical personnel traveling to volunteer at hospitals battling the coronavirus outbreak in the New York Tri-State area. https://t.co/0wmT5QZAMs pic.twitter.com/WEXGr3l9om
— ABC News (@ABC) April 14, 2020
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BORIS IS RISEN! BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Experts lower projection of UK death toll, but still predict 23,000 to die from Covid-19 by August https://t.co/R32QwID6lv
— The Independent (@Independent) April 14, 2020
“Looking across the Irish Sea I find myself thinking surely now, surely the British can see how they’ve been hoodwinked.” https://t.co/KL6ZwtCIJC
— 🕷🟡 #IAmEuropean #RejoinEU FBPE #FBR (@Angie_RejoinEU) April 14, 2020
Can a recovering Boris Johnson begin to remake Brexit-ravaged Britain? https://t.co/dPt6LFN15a
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) April 14, 2020
The Government should ‘call off the dogs’ and stop ‘harassing’ sunbathers in parks, according to one of its most senior scientific advisers#Covid19 #LockdownExtension #CoronaLockdownhttps://t.co/PXFdMif1Q4
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 14, 2020
I'm frankly embarrassed to be British, when veterans at nearly 100 years old are feeling they have to raise money for a national service that hard working people pay for – because the UK Government WON'T fund the service right. @BorisJohnson – PATHETIC! https://t.co/LnGPxIVNHf
— The GiT™ (@LegendaryGiT) April 14, 2020
I’m not sure who needs to hear this…ok I do, it’s you Boris, it’s you. #YouClapForMeNow
pic.twitter.com/gezGrFo63l— Michael Morgan (@mikewhoatv) April 14, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
Tomorrow's front page. Coronavirus threatens to hit the economy harder than the First World War and Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 pic.twitter.com/a8k9YSvT2G
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) April 14, 2020
Recovered coronavirus patients' immunity in question, WHO says https://t.co/lOqVlna5un
— Justin Hendrix | wash your hands & stay at home (@justinhendrix) April 14, 2020
Nurses fighting #COVID19 at a hospital in Mexico say they were told not to use masks, reports @Reuters. Managers allegedly told them "protective equipment wasn't necessary" and that wearing masks would start a "panic."
At least 3 staff there have died and 51 are infected. pic.twitter.com/VwpWYrFUWV
— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 14, 2020
Many Italian bookshops to remain closed despite easing of lockdown https://t.co/HYxMAKE5nj
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 14, 2020
You know what the world could really use right now? A rambling, incoherent ballad about how much it sucks that JFK was assassinated.
— Sarah Hutto (@huttopian) April 14, 2020
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