Thread by @AndrewFeinberg

NOW: @realDonaldTrump says he's reimposing all pre-JCPOA sanctions on Iran whether the UN Security Council approves or not.

.@realDonaldTrump is repeating his frequently told lie that Iran got $1.8bn in cash as part of the JCPOA.

The funds in question were owed for military equipment the Shah bought and were paid as a settlement to avoid an even larger judgment from the Iran-US Claims Tribunal.

.@realDonaldTrump in a nutshell: Deals @BarackObama are bad, any deals he makes are good.

.@realDonaldTrump talks as if he personally killed Gen. #Soleimani and ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

.@realDonaldTrump now ranting about "Democrat-run American cities" as if he's the leader of another country.

CONTEXT ALERT: The money @HouseDemocrats want included for state/local governments in a COVID relief bill that @realDonaldTrump calls "bailout money" for "Democrat-run cities and states" would go to things like police departments. He does not want to fund their police.

.@realDonaldTrump now making up a ridiculous claim about other countries using COVID-19 case statistics to make the US look bad.

.@realDonaldTrump now blaming COVID deaths on pre-existing conditions, which are the things his administration is suing to end coverage of.

"a computer board"

.@realDonaldTrump now downplaying risk of COVID, calling it no worse than "a seasonal few," which he corrects to "a seasonal flu."

He's now claiming ending in-person instruction because of COVID outbreaks will kill people and implying school shutdowns are political.

"We have tremendous unused testing capacity," @realDonaldTrump claims, even as people can't get test results back fast enough to make a difference.

.@realDonaldTrump falsely claims his administration is using a "science-based approach" to dealing with COVID and brags about the stock market.

"I don't know much about [QAnon] other than they like me very much," @realDonaldTrump says.

"These are people who don't like what's going on...these are people that love our country," he says.

He's endorsing QAnon.

Holy shit.

Told what QAnon believes, @realDonaldTrump responds: "Is that a bad thing?"

.@realDonaldTrump falsely claims that the FDA's decision to hold off on approving convalescent plasma "could be a political decision."

"I can guarantee you I poll very well with those workers" at @goodyear, @realDonaldTrump says of the workers whose jobs he is threatening by telling people to boycott their employer's products.

In response to a crackpot question about Iraq from OAN, @realDonaldTrump mocks people who correctly predicted that abandoning US' Kurdish allies would result in ethnic cleansing.

.@realDonaldTrump still appears to think the F-35 is actually invisible, is boasting of American male pilots' physical attractiveness

Apparently @tomfriedman is calling @realDonaldTrump to praise the Israel-UAE deal.

.@realDonaldTrump says he would like the specialized @goodyear tires used by his limousine to be replaced by another company.

.@realDonaldTrump now bashing @BarackObama for his performance on the economy, bragging about the stock market (which is not the same thing, FFS)