Thread by @AdamWeinstein

As evidence of the strength of the Trump administration's coronavirus response, he tells Stahl, "Barron had it, and it was gone in no time"

"You're behind with suburban women in the polls."

"I doubt it. I doubt it. I really doubt it. I'm saving suburbia. He's gonna destroy suburbia... bring low income housing projects into suburbia... Suburban women want security."

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"We got hit with [COVID], it's not our fault. And we've done a good job, not a good job, we've done a great job..."

"...You called Dr. Fauci and other health officials 'idiots."

"...where, where did I call him an idiot?"

"You called them idiots."

"Well he's been wrong a lot."

DJT: "Yesterday we were in Arizona, record-setting rallies. Numbers of people like nobody’s seen before…"

LS: "You used to have bigger rallies."

DJT: "No, these are much bigger than I ever had. You know, you're so negative... You just come in here with that negative attitude."

“I tell people to wear masks.”

“But you don’t… I look out, they’re not wearing them…”

“...yesterday in Arizona, everybody behind me had a mask.”

“…a lot of people without masks, and you don’t get up there, and say, ‘Look—‘“

“Okay. What’s your next question, Lesley.”

"Okay, but I'm asking you about masks, I'm not asking you about the size of your rallies..."

"...Next question. Go ahead."

[Question about mythical Trump replacement for ACA]

"We will come up with a plan--"

"Will? You said it would already--"

"We have large sections of it already done... Take a look at your, [pauses] various secretaries, various plans that we've already come up with."

"180 million people, Lesley, will go to socialized medicine..."

"And if the ACA is determined to be--"

"Then we're gonna have new, and it's gonna be very good."

"You keep saying that, and don't show it to us, and so people with preexisting--"

"We've come up with many plans."

"But, if there's no replacement plan, and the Supreme Court says that Obamacare goes away, people with preexisting conditions will be stranded. That's just a fact."

"No. It's wrong."

"No..."

"Look, a new plan will happen."

"*Will*?!"

"Will and is."

TRUMP: "The individual mandate, which you don't want to mention, was terminated... that actually makes Obamacare not Obamacare... under that you would pay a fortune for the privilege of not having to pay for bad health insurance. We got it terminated. Through the legislature"

"Now we have the carcass of Obamacare... we managed it well, Lesley... do I manage it well or manage it badly? If I manage it well, politically maybe that's not so good. But I decided to manage it well..."

"Um, I think you're gonna say, that you didn't say this... I saw you say this--"

"Go ahead. Oh, you're only trying to-- I wish you would interview Joe Biden like you interview me. It would be so good. You know what--"

"You like this, I thought--"

"...his family is corrupt..."

"I watch him walk out of a store. He's in the midst of a scandal. His family is corrupt. He's corrupt. He's a corrupt politician. And he's walking with an ice cream. And the question the media asks him is what kind of ice cream... and he's in the midst of a scandal!"

"So you're like big tech, you're protecting him. And everyone is."

"You're taking something that was investigated by-"

"Lesley let me ask you, you think it's okay for the mayor of Moscow's wife to give him millions... do you think it's okay for Hunter Biden to [unintelligible]"

This is a lot of... fun? Uh. But there's half the video left and I need my remaining brain cells for my actual paying work so I'll let @ddale8 et al take it from here

I skipped ahead to the last 3 minutes, which is whining about how 60 Minutes didn't tell him it was going to be a tough interview when they booked it, and look, anyone who watches this and argues that Lesley Stahl was the churlish pig in that room, they're dumb or sociopathic