Thread by @RobertPLewis

Will today be mild-mannered & common sense questions, or WHCA-approved CCP Presstitutes & Jihadi Journalists being rude & acting like children?

Find out on today's episode of " @POTUS don't play dat"

I can already see that Redfield & Mini-Kavorkian are in the house today.

My blood pressure is already rising.

Expletives on deck.

Number of new positive cases continue to decline nationwide, recent hotspots stabilizing.

Cases in Boston declining, CHI flattened & Detroit has passed the peak.

Redfield was misquoted in media re: fall season & virus.

He was talking about the flu & corona coming together at the same time.

WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE!!!

Jail the motherfuckers who caused that panic.

CNN knew it was #FakeNews , they were told & asked to change but they refused

Redfield up now. He says fall/winter will be more complicated w/ 2 diff resp viruses going around.

Clarifies he DID NOT say it would be WORSE, just more complicated.

These fucking people. #EnemyOfThePeople

We're building healthcare now to ensure we stay in containment mode, will not have to revert to mitigation mode again like we're doing now.

Surveillance will be effective public health strategy to maintain containment mode.

Wash your hands, don't touch your face, you dirty MFers.

Jihadi Journalists scream questions at him, but he ain't having it.

@POTUS back up now.

OK someone asks again for a question for Dr. R, @POTUS lets him come back up.

Reporter is quoting WaPo, which is a bad way to start.

Dr. R clarifies, again, that the difficult part will be 2 respiratory viruses at same time. End of story. But we'll have surveillance systems.

Of course, it's John Fucking Carl.

Fuck that guy.

Right in his fucking face.

He's in charge of WHCA, which is why it's so tore up from the floor up.

JFC is arguing again, pretty strongly.

One Jihadi Journa is asking why Dr. R (or @POTUS ) retweeted the story if it wasn't accurate.

They STILL don't get it.

@realDonaldTrump points at her & says "you weren't called."

And she STFU...good choice (maybe only one in her life)

Scarf Lady again. Until she explains the major holes in her theories re: this going through here in Nov/Dec and much higher flu B rates last year, I can't pay attention to anything she says.

Charlie Brown teacher voice to me.

They REALLY are pushing the flu vaccines today. Both Scarf Lady & Redfield are talking about it a lot, in hopes that we can get rid of flu this fall & not have 2 respiratory viruses to deal with.

@POTUS is adamant, "what we just went through, we'll never have to go through again" bc of preparations, therapies, surveillance, etc.

Some are estimating WuFlu won't come back at all. But of course media ONLY goes w/ the fear (and blows that way out of context). Fuckers.

*Remember: 60k ppl avg die from flu every year. WuFlu kills same demo that flu kills. So this doesn't mean 50k ppl will die from WuFlu & 60k from Flu next season. It's like 2 competitors going after the same potential customer pool. It won't start killing young & healthy just bc-

there are suddenly 2 respiratory viruses. And that's ONLY if we don't eradicate or IF it actually comes back.

Apparently we're sending ventilators to other nations, including Pakistan.

I hope they gave us clearance to put JSOC in Waziristan to ice some terrorists in exchange

Fucking damnit. It's Jihadi day in the press room again today.

I'm telling you, it's all planned. Some days are mild mannered, some days they stack the room with assholes.

Today it's the assholes.

John Fucking Carl is arguing with @POTUS about ventilators.

The people who were crying that there wouldn't be enough ventilators just a few weeks ago.

SRSLY, fuck these people.

Can we expel them for being assholes? From the country?

@POTUS is doing his spiel again so he can get out the news he wants to deliver before sparring with the Jihadis.

Beautiful to watch states begin to open.

Wash your dirty hands, don't touch your f-ing face.

We don't want rebounds. @POTUS saying that even 1 death is unnecessary, virus should never have left the little area it started.

John Fucking Carl is giggling like the little bitch he is, and POTUS calls him out for it.

Somebody smack his knuckles with a ruler.

@POTUS is going through the timeline again.

Because, as I've been saying, the whole point of overstated models [my theory] was to get him to overreact & then memory hole the initial projections.

But he repeats the timeline & projections every day so they can't.

@POTUS is edifying Newsom again (for the morons who said he "couldn't be Presidential" this is about as Presidential as it gets. Giving Iran the WARNO was icing.

Told Kemp (Gov GA) that he disagrees w/ opening facilities that would be in violation of Phase 1 guidelines.

@POTUS love the people "who use all of those things"(barber shops, spas, tattoo parlors & gyms) but says again that it's too soon.

In a few weeks AF Thunder Birds & Navy Blue Angels will perform air shows over a lot of American cities (big and small)

That's awesome! I grew up-

going to air shows (dad was Navy pilot) and that's really great. Gonna bring my rugrats, looking forward to that one, great way to celebrate opening the country back up.

"If we wanna win, we always win."

Operation America Strong was the military's idea, Blue Angels & Thunder-

birds want to show their support for Americans braving this fight.

July 4th will be a big one again this year.

Military is operating at 100% during crisis, thousands of troops deployed alongside civilians in hotspots.

DeBlasio called @POTUS to say that seeing the mil come in -

gave "everybody spirit."

Senate voted to replenish PPP yesterday, increased by $310bn.

Urges House to pass w/o delay.

@POTUS called for Harvard, w/ their $40bn endowment, to return money it was allocated under CARES, they announced today they will return (so did Stanford).

$30bn in loans set aside for banks that provide services for minority workers hit so hard by "this hidden enemy."

POTUS addressing full spectrum of needs in these communities - already sent $1.4bn to 13k community centers to increase testing in hard-hit areas

Yesterday's legislation incl addt'l $25bn to expand testing, more funding for community health centers

Also supporting new testing sites focused on these communities, 40 launched so far & dozens more planned

Some ppl are big on testing, some professionals aren't

Admin working closely w/ Govs to incr testing, incl strategies to increase in older, minority and Native American communities

Working to restore African American & Hispanic communities to full economic health, put Dr. Carson on helping underserved communities. Tim Scott going-

to help as well (he helped push the Economic Zones)

Council will seek support from business & community leaders to know how they can best support these communities

African & Hispanic Americans were at best economic numbers in our history "before our nation was attacked"

POTUS won't rest until that prosperity has been restored, thinks we'll be much higher than before

To protect workers, EO signed to suspend immigration into US, to put American workers first in line for jobs when economy opens & reserve healthcare for American citizens

Today @FLOTUS & @POTUS planted a tree in honor of Earth Day

Wants to open national parks soon, so ppl can enjoy our national treasures

Admin has directed +$7bn to support develop. of treatments & diagnostics

More than 1600 locations around country have signed up to admin convalescent plasma (from recovered ppl)

If you recovered, consider contacting local blood or plasma center to arrange a donation that can save lives

@VP up now

843k contracted, 43k have passed away from WuFlu

Many hotspots have passed their peak, positive cases are going down

Nawlins is most stable of all metro outbreaks

Stabilization & declines in many large cities

It's a tribute to the American people

The fastest way to reopen America is to continue what you've been doing

We want to put WuFlu in our past, and we're on our way to doing that

We're going to have 110k ventilators in 100days from GE Healthcare

More than 31k National Guard have been stood up around country, Title 32 used

Mil personnel has +5500 active duty, 964 uniformed med pros working in 17 states around the country

VA is deploying teams to focus on nursing homes

No American who's required a vent in the US has been denied one, and we have a lot more on the way

Wal Mart is producing 8.4mm gowns to be delivered into our commercial supply for healthcare facilities in June

Mini-Kavorkian up now

Turnaround in NY is continuing

He's saying mitigation & social distancing worked, it's the basis for our being able to say we can think seriously about re-opening America

Guidelines are based on a version of the successful formula that got us to where we are now

We have to proceed in careful, measured way

Diff dynamics of outbreaks in diff parts of country, so speed will be diff per state

Q: Can you talk about expectations for the fall?
(they want to find anyone to give them a fear-inducing soundbyte they can twist around again)

-Mini-K is convinced we'll have another outbreak in fall, but depends on how we'll be able to contain. In fall we'll be much better prepared than we were this winter. It's gonna be complicated (to decipher WuFlu or Flu) by flu season.

FU: So you'd caution ppl thinking no WuFlu-

in fall or that we don't have to worry about it?
-I'm sure it will be back this fall. If we ignore it will take off, but that's not gonna happen, we'll respond

Q: What happens when Govs like Kemp don't follow guidelines for phases?
-be careful, I'd advise not to just turn the-

switch on. I'd advise him not to just go ahead w/o following phases

Q: EO
-we can talk about that later. We want Americans to have the jobs & healthcare, have to take care of them first

FU: immigrants already here or others trying to get it, and healthcare workers?
-immigrants trying to get in, and ppl trying to get in illegally. Our S. border is tighter than it's been in yrs. We'll have 530miles of wall by early next year. S. border is very tight for good -

reason.

FU: Exemptions for healthcare workers?
-we want to protect our healthcare workers, that's one of the reasons we're doing this

Q: Rick Bright, dir. in charge of vaccine, he says he's been pushed out of his job bc he raised questions about HCQ.
-never heard of him, if a guy says he was pushed out, maybe he was, maybe he wasn't

Q: you said July 4 you expect ppl on nat'l mall, is that gonna be safe?
-we'll prob have 25% of what we had last year. I saw a magnificent pic of Dr. MLK and our event last year, both were maxed out. This yr will most likely be 6ft apart, maybe we'll do even greater

Q: (whoever this is, he calls on her & @POTUS says "just nice & easy, nice & easy. I bet it's the CBS CCP Jihadi from last week)
-You talk abt testing capacity, Govs agree it exists, is that diff from testing implementation?
We're the king of testing already.
-only 0.2% of

-the country has been tested, is that good enough?
It's a media trap, no matter what we do the media will say it's never good enough. When Govs were complaining (about vents), it was pretty much along party lines, except for 1. Nobody who needed a vent didn't get one. W/ testing-

it's a little bit diff, but it's much easier. Swabs are coming in by millions, we got highest quality, but testing is like, no matter how well you do you can always say more. Prob w/ testing is that if we test 350mm ppl, media will say we want them to have a 2nd, 3rd test

Some ppl are screaming for testing bc they think we can't do it, but we have tremendous testing capacity in this country. We'll be able to give everyone what they want, but actual test has to be administered locally. Those leaders know the area better. We're doing tremendous test

Q: immigration EO, who's it for?
-subject to change. Ex. farmers, border's been turned off a number of time over the years, but we're taking care of farmers better than anyone
Subject to change bc your advisors have a prob with it?
-we may modify it as we go along

-could be made tougher, or less tough. Don't want to hurt farmers

Q: Gov Kemp, what did you say? Would you advise Georgians to listen to you or their Gov?
-I want them to listen to their Gov. I have tremendous respect for our governors. Michelle Obama & Hussein stumped for-

Kemp's rival, but I stumped for him & he beat their superstar. I disagree w/ him from time to time. I know these ppl, spas, gyms, tattoo parlors - bikers for trump, lotsa tattoos (!!!!)

Q: Fed Efforts re: nursing facilities. Industry says they're struggling, can you incr testing?
-that's common sense, we knew imm that would be a problem, but we're doing that 100%. Taking care of seniors, other than me

@VP up now, reiterating the same thing. Thanks Americans who put off visits to senior family members, knows it's tough. But a healthy American could inadvertently pass along to an elderly loved one. It's why POTUS took early action to raise infectious disease standards at all-

senior facilities across the nation. Gov Kemp deployed Nat'l Guard to nursing homes to do cleaning & disinfection. Look carefully at guidelines, Phase 1 testing outlines that (but these idiots prob haven't bothered to read it, bc they're too lazy to do their homework)

Phase 1 all the way through Phase 3 & reopening focus on seniors & most vulnerable

Q: labs say they need to buy new machines for testing. You say they're currently running under capacity.
-they can buy new machines if they need, we have tremendous testing capabilities, but if-

they want to increase they can

Q: (this is from the dick muncher wearing the facemask. Dude, give it up. You're the only one wearing a mask in the damned press room. We get it, you LOOOOOOVVE virtue signaling, but you just look & sound like an idiot)

Q: Monday a local Miami reporter asked if it was possible to get maps distributed to local media so they can report on those.
-Scarf Lady gets up, thanks a bunch of ppl & talks about testing capacity and building infrastructure to deal w/ future pandemics, she'll ask the co's -

about the masks bc they're proprietary. Local state governors have the maps, addresses and types of machines in every lab in their jurisdictions

Q: CA has partially broken w/ CDC guidance on who should get testing. Do you agree?
-not only do we agree, it was in our guidelines (to test asymptomatics in high risk areas). We've asked states to do that to ensure we're monitoring that

Surgeon General is up now, talking about how they ID'd where to put the testing & extra resources to select sites to add add'tl testing in hardest hit, underserved communities

Q: @ChanelRion : Iran, you put out msg this morning w/ big announcement re: Iranian aggression. Will you formally change ROE?
-100%. we don't want their gunboats anywhere near our boats. Under Hussein it was taking place all the time, under my admin I gave order early one and -

they were very nice. But yesterday they started playing again, and I'm not gonna let that happen. They'll shoot them out of the water.

Q: For Mini-Kavorkian: FDA & CDC said pets have tested positive.
-Animals can get infected. Big cats in zoos have been reported. There's no evidence its passed from pet to human. It's not surprising

Q: Earlier you talked about giving Americans hope, now that it's lessening I want to ask about accountability: Reuters says HHS Secretary (Azar) put a former dog breeder (something)
-I don't know anything about that

Q: something about facemasks
-it's up to the governors, the states are very different.

FU: months ago Surg General said face masks weren't helpful, any accountability on that?
-Redfield: when we came out w/ CDC guidance on facemasks, it was based on our understanding

of asymptomatic and putting a barrier to prevent me from infecting you. Viral particles going through a barrier are diminished.

Surg Gen: we've had to clarify this several times. As Dr. R mentioned, it was originally based on CDC guidelines showing that it wasn't effective-

on preventing you from getting infected. And we had a run on masks that were hurting our healthcare workers. And a lot of cases seem to be via asymptomatic spread. Masks weren't effective in preventing you from contracting, but from you spreading. We suggested cloth coverings-

to try and prevent the asymptomatic spread. We've all been tested which is why we're not wearing them right now. Mask isn't substitute for social distancing. Wash your hands, don't touch your face. Save medical masks for healthcare workers (I saw a gibroni DRIVING w/ N95 yest.

Q: this same asshole says, "did you know at the time that wearing a mask helped but you still said that?"
-No, I resent that assumption

Q: mil satellite launch by Iran, is that an advancement of their nuke program?

They say it was for better television. We're watching very closely, we know more about Iran right now than they do.

Q: Are you concerned Iran sees this as vulnerability on mil readiness?
Various navies have had outbreaks. 184 nations have the COVID right now. Shows how rapidly-

it spreads. We did lose 1 sailor, it attacked the lungs of that person, but most have gotten better.

Q: Closures of meat processing plants. Is this a concern?
-Look at S. Dakota & how well Gov has done there, then all of a sudden big spike. It was surprising, we're concerned

FU: is food supply secure?
-Yes

Q: MO AG filed case against China. Do you support?
-i haven't seen the case. I love MO, but I'll take a look at it, haven't seen the case, I will be doing that

I'm sure that won't be last one

Q: for Mini-Kavorkian: Rick Bright, says removed from job bc he questioned HCQ, do public health experts feel safe talking out?
-Absolutely not

Q: Knowing Dr. Bright & His gifts...what will he be doing, are his talents best suited for where he is?
*holy shit, this smells like a media setup. If they're pressing about this dude so much, his story & claim is most likely BullShit paid for by activists

@POTUS smells it, is questioning the reporters talks about Brights "great gifts." POTUS knows BS when he smells it

Q: USA Today (great) - this dude sounds like he's got a major nasal blockage
Someone said WH didn't want to put money in state & local governments?
-IS he a Dem?

IDK
-check it out, I'll bet he's a dem, we've given plenty of money to state & local govt's

Q: Sen. McConnel said today he'd see states w/ high public pension declare bankruptcy...
- I saw that, i'll have to call him and ask him, why he said it & how he said it

...some states are doing fantastically well and some are not doing so well. We'll see what happens.

FU: are you conerned w/ growing debt in ref to these stim packages
-we don't have a choice. Nobody's seen anything like this, 1917 was the last time. We had the greatest economy-

on the planet, then one day they came to me & said you have to close it. These people right here came into my office...
*remember, he's not letting them backtrack from the fact the "experts" all told him he'd have to do this or millions would die

There was a great feeling today, stock market was up. I feel much better than I did 2-3 days ago, and I think the world does. We're gonna be back, EU is having tremendous difficulty. The world looks up to us & wants to know what we're doing, but we're taking care of it & them

W/in 2 wks we'll be at level that nobody's ever seen before, we're already at a level that nobody's ever been. We're gonna be bigger, stronger & better before.

***I'm starting to notice that like the rallies, he has a phrase that is his "closing."

And that's it, so @POTUS out!