Thread by @JuddLegum

1. One of the central arguments to Trump's reelection campaign is that his opponent, Joe Biden, is mentally "diminished"

This thread will consist only of direct quotes from Trump's appearance today on Fox News Sunday

2. "I say flames, we'll put out the flames. And we'll put out in some cases just burning embers. We also have burning embers. We have embers and we do have flames. Florida became more flame- like, but it's -- it's going to be under control."

3. "Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them -- don't forget, I guess it's like 99.7 percent, people are going to get better and many cases, they're going to get better very quickly."

4. WALLACE: Seventy-five thousand cases a day.

TRUMP: Show me the death chart.

WALLACE: Well, I don't have the death chart.

TRUMP: Well, the death chart is much more important.

5. "I'll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, 'It's going to disappear.' I'll say it again. It's going to disappear and I'll be right."

6. "Everybody who is saying don't wear a mask - all of sudden everybody's got to wear a mask, and as you know masks cause problems, too. With that being said, I'm a believer in masks. I think masks are good. But I leave it up to the governors...They're more mask into..."

7. WALLACE: You said our children are taught in school to hate our country. Where do you see that?

TRUMP: I just look at -- I look at school. I watch, I read, look at the stuff.

Now they want to change 1492, Columbus discovered America.

8. TRUMP: You know, we grew up, you grew up, we all did, that's what we learned. Now they want to make it the 1619 project. Where did that come from? What does it represent? I don't even know, so

WALLACE: It's slavery

TRUMP: That's what they're saying, but they don't even know.

9. "Biden can't put 2 sentences together. They wheel him out. He goes up. He repeats - he - they ask him Qs. He reads a teleprompter. And then he goes back into his basement

You tell me the American people want to have that, in an age where we're in trouble w/other nations"

10. "So he goes in. I'll then make a speech. It will be a great speech. And some young guys start writing, Vice President Biden said this, this, this, this He didn't say it. Joe doesn't know he's alive, OK? He doesn't know he's alive

Do the American people want that, number one"

11. WALLACE: Incidentally, I took the test too when I heard that you passed it.

TRUMP: Yes, how did you do?

WALLACE: It's not the hard --- it's not that hardest test.

TRUMP: No, but the last --

WALLACE: It isn't -- the picture and it says "what's that," and it's an elephant.

12. TRUMP: But I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't. They get very hard, the last five questions.

WALLACE: Well, one of them was count back from 100 by seven.

TRUMP: And let me tell you --

WALLACE: Ninety-three.

13. "If Joe Biden got in, first of all, he won't call the shots. The people -- the radical left people that surround him will call.

Religion will be gone, OK? Life, you could forget about that, the whole question of life. Supreme Court --"

14. "Excuse me...we're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do. So we're going to solve -- we're going to sign an immigration plan, a health care plan, & various other plans.

15. TRUMP: It just seems to me that you are very prone to be nice to the Democrats. And maybe I'm wrong about that, Chris, but it's an honor to be with you. It's fine. I love it. I love it that it's close to 100 degrees out there.

WALLACE: Your choice again.

TRUMP: Yes, I know

15. "Let him come out of his basement, go around, I'll make four or five speeches a day, I'll be interviewed by you, I'll be interviewed by the worst killers that hate my - my guts. They hate my guts. There's nothing they can ask me that I won't give them a proper answer to."

16. TRUMP: Let Biden sit through an interview like this. He'll be underground crying for mommy. He'll say mommy, mommy, please take me home.

WALLACE: Well, we've asked him for an interview, sir.

TRUMP: He can't do an interview. He's incompetent.

17. WALLACE: But are you gracious?

TRUMP: You don't know until you see. It depends. I think mail-in voting is -- is going to rig the election. I really do.

WALLACE: Are you suggesting that you might not accept the results of the election?

TRUMP: No, I have to see.