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May 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"These people are destroying our country" -- Trump this morning on the unemployment rate ticking up to 3.9 percent from 3.8 percent (it was 6.3 percent when he left office so, yeah) Trump complains that he can't go to Ohio tomorrow and Florida on Sunday because of his trial. The only problem is that there is no trial on Saturday or Sunday lol.
May 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
KAITLAN COLLINS: So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?

JD VANCE: Yes

COLLINS: Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6 JD VANCE: I did not read the president's attorneys as saying the president could order a coup

KAITLAN COLLINS: He said it would depend on the circumstances. What circumstances warrant it?

VANCE: He's just saying that would count as an official act.
May 1 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
Trump is about to speak at a rally in Freeland, Michigan. Follow along for a video thread 👇 Image Trump begins in Michigan by daydreaming about the economy "plunging" before November. He's rooting for immiseration.
May 1 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
"They call them fake numbers. They call them bounce back numbers" -- Trump in Wisconsin simultaneously denies Biden's strong economic record and takes credit for it "1.2 trillion dollars for their fake infrastrucerschure para-- he had a package of infrastructure, you take a look at it, it's fake. It's fake and it's horrible" -- Trump misfires
Apr 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"I'm a grown man running against a 6 year old" -- Biden comes out swinging at the WHCA dinner with "Sleepy Don" jokes and jabs at his age Biden: "Did you hear what Donald just said about the major civil war battle? 'Gettysburg ... wow!' Trump's speech was so embarrassing the statue of Robert E Lee surrendered again"
Apr 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wow. Biden in Tampa on Trump: "He said there has to be punishment for women exercising their reproductive freedom ... maybe it's coming from that bible he's trying to sell. I almost wanted to buy one just to see what the hell is in it." Biden: "It was a political deal to get rid of Roe, a political deal Trump made with the evangelical base of the Republican Party to look past his moral and character flaws in exchange for his commitment to appoint justices to SCOTUS who would overturn Roe."
Apr 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"They're very good articles" -- Trump again is brandishing Fox News web article he printed on paper "They're keeping me in a court room that's freezing by the way" -- Trump
Apr 23 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
4 years ago today, Trump during his one of his covid disaster-pressers made his infamous, bonkers statement about "disinfectant" via "injection inside" being a miracle cure. But here are a couple other moments from that event you may have forgotten. (🧵) As I noted at the time, Dr. Birx, who at the time as fawning over Trump on a daily basis, couldn't hide that she was appalled when Trump directed her to investigate his wild quackery.
Apr 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
STEPHANOPOULOS: Will your support for Trump continue even if he's convicted?

CHRIS SUNUNU: Yeah. This has been going on for more than a year and his poll numbers never go down.

S: But you're going to politics. I'm asking about right and wrong.

CS: This is about politics. STEPHANOPOULOS: But I'm asking whether you're going to be swayed by a conviction

SUNUNU: Nobody should be shocked that the Republican governor is supporting the Republican president
Apr 13 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
I'm going to put together a thread covering Trump's rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. Follow along for clips 👇 Image "We will quickly rebuild the greatest economy in the history of the world like we had it just four years ago" -- the unemployment rate in April 2020 was nearly 15 percent
Apr 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
4 years ago today -- April 10, 2020 -- Trump was describing a pandemic illness that was ravaging America as "brilliant" and "very smart" Trump was deeply confused about how covid spread but that didn't prevent him from publicly agitating for the economy to reopen, suggesting that public health precautions would lead to mass suicide
Apr 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
4 years ago today -- April 7, 2020 -- Trump held one of his covid trainwreck pressers and rolled out the talking point that coronavirus testing was causing causes and not, you know, the virus, which at that time was spreading out of control (🧵) as Trump's polling sagged for obvious reasons, he started talking about how mail-in voting enables cheating, presaging the Big Lie he would deploy months later to try to overturn his election loss
Apr 6 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Four years ago today -- on April 6, 2020 -- Trump held one of his covid trainwreck news conferences and prevented his top public health official from correcting misinformation he was spreading about supposed miracle cures 🧵 Trump got mad at a reporter because she asked him a legitimate question and didn't fawn over him North Korea style
Apr 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Four years ago today the president was just out there riffing about unproven drugs he was hoping would solve all his problems👇 Trump four years ago today was pushing to reopen the economy even as his own health officials warned Americans that the death toll was about to go up Image
Apr 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
4 years ago today -- April 3, 2020 -- Trump held one of his covid disaster-conferences and announced a CDC mask recommendation, but in the next breath said he wouldn't comply with it. Leadership! (🧵) Trump then blew up at a reporter who asked him a basic follow up question about comments Jared Kushner made the day before
Apr 2 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Trump in Michigan: "Under the Trump administration, we had a tough policy of getting the bad people out." BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID.
Apr 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
4 years ago today, Trump held one of his fraught covid press conferences and told people worried about losing their health care during a pandemic that they shouldn't sweat it because he would give them something "better" -- a one-time cash payment 🧵 April 2, 2020, came as 6 million Americans filed for unemployment. Trump's words of encouragement? "It's an artificial closing"
Apr 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Are we better off today than 4 years ago? Let's examine what the Trump administration was up to on April 1, 2020.

To start with, Mike Pence went on CNN and defended Trump's ludicrous claims about covid just going away on its own. (🧵) Trump, meanwhile, held one of his trainwreck news conferences and sparred with a *Fox News correspondent* who pressed him on how he left the country unprepared for a pandemic
Mar 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
four year ago today, Trump held one of his covid disaster-conferences and blamed nurses for PPE shortages Trump four years ago today blamed Obama for not developing tests for a virus that literally did not exist when he was in office
Mar 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
four years ago today Trump held a coronavirus disaster-conference and said he had urged VP Pence not to talk to Democratic governors because they weren't "appreciative" enough of him. this was what passed for presidential leadership four years ago today -- unhinged all-caps tweeting
Mar 25 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
"This is all Biden-run things" -- Trump begins his NYC news conference Trump calls for Engoron to "be looked at seriously" and claims Mar-a-Lago is worth $2 billion