The original version was by Tommy Tucker who is best know for “Hi Heel Sneakers”.
Month: March 2020
Trump did not push for coronavirus testing earlier
A previous tweet of this quote did not make it adequately clear that it is Trump who did not push for adequate testing, not Secretary of Health and Human Services Azar. Here is the whole quote for context. @ddiamond pic.twitter.com/ZZ2aPF53m6
— Fresh Air (@nprfreshair) March 12, 2020
Trump keeps lying about the coronavirus
Fact Check: Trump’s coronavirus response is plagued with misstatements https://t.co/QQPeEtnR8t
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 16, 2020
Fact check: President Trump made yet another false claim to minimize the severity of the coronavirus crisis, claiming Sunday that the virus is under "control."
— CNN (@CNN) March 16, 2020
Experts say the US does not have the virus even close to contained. https://t.co/sDQnFcCOGZ
"We have it very well under control."
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) March 15, 2020
"We pretty much shut it down."
"The numbers are going to get progressively better."
"We’re going very substantially down, not up."
"One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear."
None of it was true. https://t.co/E7ZDLvqMmv
We're starting a list –> Tracking Trump’s false or misleading coronavirus claims https://t.co/RP3QvHWpa3
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 14, 2020
“President Trump continues to lie to the American people and say that testing is going smoothly… that’s not the case.” @JakeTapper reports on coronavirus testing troubles. https://t.co/8dUuBm3yRP pic.twitter.com/P9uwDuz6p7
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) March 12, 2020
The CDC identified the 1st case of the virus on 4/14/09. The Obama admin declared swine flu a public health emergency on 4/26/26. The FDA approved a rapid test for the virus 2 days later. At the time, the CDC had reported 64 cases & zero deaths. https://t.co/qgnzskwVEI
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 14, 2020
No, the coronavirus isn't a flu. No, the virus isn't contained. No, not everybody who wants a test can get one. No, Obama didn't impede coronavirus testing and do nothing about swine flu. No, the number of cases wasn't going down to zero from 15. https://t.co/BsVJ2XRNW7
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 11, 2020
Trump today: "We're having to fix a problem that four weeks ago nobody ever thought would be a problem."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 11, 2020
The US had its first confirmed case seven weeks ago…
With the Trump lies and Fox News outright propaganda, one fact in unavoidable:
— Todd Poirier (@todd_poirier) March 11, 2020
Deep red states are going to get hit the worst with the virus because nobody there even thinks it's real. Super hard. It's going to be awful.
How do they lie that away when it happens?
Trump on the virus: “We closed it down. We stopped it.”
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 6, 2020
His lies and incompetence are going to get many killed.
pic.twitter.com/IWTc3ZLsk2
A killer virus is spreading rapidly, world markets are crashing, people are rightfully scared, and Trump’s response is to tweet dangerous lies. We don’t have a leader. We have a sad, small, stupid man-baby who is entirely unable to manage this crisis.
— Bryce Tache 🇺🇸 (@brycetache) March 9, 2020
Trump colliding with a brick wall of reality is a fascinating psychological drama to watch. The old tricks-Tweets, lies, dehumanizing attacks, blaming others-won't work against a deadly virus; this will cause him/his supporters even greater frustration, anger, anxiety & paranoia.
— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) March 9, 2020
More effective video content to disseminate widely on your networks. He’s a narcissistic disaster and unfit for a moment like this. We need to all help narrate that fact. https://t.co/uCL4zxaj1C
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) March 11, 2020
"From the moment the coronavirus reached the United States, President Donald Trump has seemed determined to construct an alternate reality around the outbreak."
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) March 11, 2020
— @mckaycoppins:https://t.co/HDikEom5I8
We've deleted an earlier tweet to this story to reflect that President Trump's statement was a false claim. The headline of the article has also been updated to note the claim was false. https://t.co/5AOpXO87gw
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2020
Majority of Americans don't trust Donald Trump to tell truth about coronavirus threat: Poll https://t.co/kNRizmMGrI
— Kim (Our strength is our shared commitment. 2020) (@kimc473) March 13, 2020
Senate overturns Education Department rule that would hurt students that were swindled
Good move by the Senate
DeVos is terrible! She also wanted to harm rural schools.
Senate overturns Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' rule limiting debt relief for defrauded students https://t.co/CiSDuY8Awn pic.twitter.com/K4BLlohtpE
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 11, 2020
Just happened:
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) March 11, 2020
A bipartisan majority in the Senate voted to overturn an Education Department rule that would make it more difficult for students swindled by colleges to obtain loan forgiveness.https://t.co/rQJaEUvZY1
via @NYTimes https://t.co/vXSk3tWNbZ
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) March 5, 2020
Education Department delays rule change that would cut funding for rural, low-income schools https://t.co/QR2OISU87U pic.twitter.com/7gvFhNoKBr
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 4, 2020
Bipartisan group of senators call on DeVos to reverse decision to use program criteria that will cut off hundreds of rural school districts from federal funding they've relied on for nearly 20 years:
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) March 4, 2020
Story here: https://t.co/HbPKZ1RS1z https://t.co/P21PtQKrIR
The Education Department has rejected 53,339 of the 54,000 applications for its loan forgiveness program. Yes, you read that correctly. https://t.co/zO8AX17ONM
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) December 25, 2019
Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say
Breaking: Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say https://t.co/oz9q9wlQGS
— Richard Tofel (@dicktofel) March 11, 2020
Republicans could use payroll tax cut to justify cutting programs
Trump is interested in a temporary cut to payroll taxes that support Social Security and Medicare. I am concerned that Republicans would use the reduced solvency of the programs as an excuse to cut benefits. Every problem cannot be solved with a tax cut!
Trump's radical plan to waive payroll tax would punch a hole in Social Security and Medicare budgets https://t.co/vobYq2dirB pic.twitter.com/y1lBdyYwvQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 11, 2020
BREAKING: Some Senate Republicans express openness to quickly passing House Dems coronavirus bill, depending on what is in the final passage. Momentum has moved away from Trump payroll tax push and toward focus on paid family leave. https://t.co/OSE1sgsALH
— Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) March 11, 2020
Trump says he’s going to propose a payroll tax cut to help hourly workers deal with coronavirus. So, they’ll pay a smaller % of taxes on the $0 they’ll earn when they’re out sick? Trump has zero idea how real jobs work because he’s never done one.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) March 10, 2020
you can’t cut taxes that are not paid
many people would not benefit from this cut
JUST IN: Trump pitched 0% payroll tax rate for the rest of this year, White House officials say.https://t.co/GB6rQdyANL
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 10, 2020
Michael Strain and Jason Furman agree: Don’t cut the payroll tax. Just send people money https://t.co/T1cfzqR3hp
— David Wessel (@davidmwessel) March 11, 2020
Trump's move to halt the payroll tax is to starve Social Security and Medicare (which payroll taxes fund) to move forward his agenda to cut Social Security and Medicare.
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 11, 2020
As a negotiator on Obama/Biden payroll tax cut, I want to second @jasonfurman @paulkrugman The 2011-2012 payroll tax cut was positive because this $240 billion in additional stimulus was best we could get w/GOP House resistance – NOT because it was the best or most fair design.
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) March 10, 2020
Scoop: Trump told Republican senators in private lunch that he wants a payroll tax holiday *through the November election,* sources tell me. He doesn’t want taxes to go back up before voters decide whether to return him to office. Story out soon.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 10, 2020
Two-thirds of Trump’s payroll tax cut would go to the richest 20% of Americans, with the poorest 40% getting only 6% of the benefit, writes columnist @hiltzikm. https://t.co/SzrWKZyD5e
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 18, 2020
Trump lies about Obama (again)
Four Pinocchios –> Trump’s bogus effort to blame Obama for sluggish coronavirus testing https://t.co/CB8hx3W3hu
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 6, 2020
FACT CHECK: Pres. Trump is falsely blaming the Obama administration for the slow rollout of U.S. tests for the new coronavirus—ignoring his administration’s own fumbles in responding to the health crisis and mischaracterizing Obama-era policies. https://t.co/gQfUsXAEWM
— ABC News (@ABC) March 7, 2020
Charlie Kirk and Rudy Giuliani received nearly 40,000 combined retweets since yesterday pushing a false claim about Obama and H1N1 in response to the coronavirus (with Giuliani taking the claim from Kirk). The false claim has already been debunked by multiple fact checkers. pic.twitter.com/2YqZ0RCjN8
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) March 10, 2020
Asked why the US has been slow in testing, Trump says "no," the US has done a "very good job" with testing, then repeats a vaguer version of his false claim that something done by the Obama administration slowed things down.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 10, 2020
Trump again falsely blames the Obama administration for the CDC's coronavirus test kit shortage.
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) March 10, 2020
The CDC was slow out of the gate because it developed and deployed it own tests, which didn't work. https://t.co/3dlOVHsMe9
Obama actually declared a national emergency after only 20 cases were detected. Then he poured $ into testing and treatment for Swine flu.
— Dr. Robert Fortuna (@psychdr100) March 10, 2020
The latest far-right defense of Trump's botched COVID-19 response is a lie about Obama and H1N1 https://t.co/bKKHPu8GZw
“Experts on lab testing said they were unaware of any Obama-era rule that would have hindered the administration from authorizing lab-developed tests for the coronavirus in an emergency.“- https://t.co/19lmkk5qbK
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 5, 2020
Trump blames his administration's failure to conduct testing for the coronavirus (less than 500 tests as of last Friday) on OBAMA.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 4, 2020
This is not a joke. https://t.co/Qbu9Gc3RsN
Republicans/Fox News are downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus
People will get sick because they are listening to Trump’s lies and Fox News. They are trying to downplay the virus because they think it could hurt Trump’s re-election. They care about that more than public health. Democrats, who have not been brainwashed, take it seriously.
Trump doesn’t want to hear bad news so his flunkies don’t tell him. I was an analyst for the federal government for 28 years and I found that executives appreciated it when you were honest and told them bad news.
1) This gave them a chance to react and respond promptly to the problem.
2) They were better off hearing it from you instead of someone outside of their organization.
If the only way Trump gets the truth is from media reports, his staff is not doing him any favors.
Hannity attacks “Benny boy” @benyt on his show. Smith wrote a damning piece published Sunday on the failures at Fox that set the conditions which allowed for the network’s top hosts to mislead viewers about the seriousness of the coronavirus.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 25, 2020
Rupert Murdoch’s network spent seven weeks defending Donald Trump’s constant lies that COVID-19 wasn’t going to hit us like a viral tsunami.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 21, 2020
Never forget that.
"They're claiming we called the coronavirus a hoax. That is a complete and total lie." pic.twitter.com/g6kpXsH0Wn
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 24, 2020
"Two polls released this week show the troubling effects that weeks of dismissive and conspiratorial coverage of the novel coronavirus from Fox News and other right-wing media outlets and personalities had on the American public," @oliverdarcy reports https://t.co/TnxaxA1ojC
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 18, 2020
Fox’s coronavirus coverage was a low point in the network’s shameful history. It should never live it down.https://t.co/GDrgYut5HU
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 18, 2020
88 percent of Republicans said they trust the president as a source of information on the coronavirus. Yes, that’s been very bad. https://t.co/WkArmDHtTr
— Slate (@Slate) March 17, 2020
—@costareports writes that the American right has morphed into "a grievance coalition highly skeptical of government, science, the news and federal warnings." Costa adds, "Their conspiratorial unrest is particularly acute within right-wing media." https://t.co/P5Z2wUCxOX
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 17, 2020
Anonymous Fox producer: As the virus spreads, "the attempt to deflect and blame the media and Democrats from Trish Regan, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, Jesse Watters, and Greg Gutfeld… is really irresponsible and hazardous to our viewers" https://t.co/Cl1QPoMc2s
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1238907864153903109?s=21
Fox News hosts have actively downplayed the severity of the virus, accusing Democrats and the media of pushing a hoax to hurt Trump. But the leaders of the company are taking the outbreak seriously. https://t.co/DgalMlW4q1 In other words, they know they're putting people at risk.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 13, 2020
We've been afraid for years about what the GOP, Fox News war on science could mean
— Will Bunch 🆘 (@Will_Bunch) March 15, 2020
Now, coronavirus and its highest death rate targets the denial of FNC's older audience
If a loved one is addicted to Fox, please try to give them the facts
My new column https://t.co/WdWLgzHeRy
Endangering your family and community to own the libs https://t.co/TVUymudTTN pic.twitter.com/4iZ6B1hEnY
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 15, 2020
On Fox & Friends, Jerry Falwell Jr claims people are "overreacting" to coronavirus, the national response is "their next attempt to get Trump," and the virus itself is a North Korean bioweapon. pic.twitter.com/2JPuNBW7C3
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 13, 2020
Fox News is risking its own viewers’ lives. https://t.co/B9XXibBHne
— Slate (@Slate) March 13, 2020
Some of Fox's coverage has been straightforward, but a significant amount has "been aimed toward framing the response to coronavirus as unwarranted hysteria" 👇 https://t.co/SidIuTR2ug
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 12, 2020
Devastating. They will study this in the future as an example of how not to communicate with the public about a global health crisis. https://t.co/yW3SGBo5VP
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 12, 2020
NEW YAHOO NEWS/YOUGOV POLL: Republicans largely dismiss the threat of coronavirus by wide margin https://t.co/olVnJkDIXL pic.twitter.com/gIn5DUUd3C
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 12, 2020
Not at all surprising and has little to do with media. Reality is cracking their walls and further disorienting them, intensifying a misplaced frenzy. https://t.co/E8D312gMcG
— david maraniss (@davidmaraniss) March 12, 2020
Rupert Murdoch could save lives by forcing Fox News to tell the truth about coronavirus — right now. https://t.co/lzGYlFKa0R
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) March 11, 2020
Democrats are significantly likelier to wash their hands more often now than Republicans, 63% to 48%, perhaps a reflection of faith in Trump that everything will be all right and the coronavirus will just go away. @SusanPage @JoelShannon91 https://t.co/D4uUXF5GKl
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 13, 2020
Ainsley Earhardt: "It's actually the safest time to fly. Everyone I know that's flying right now, terminals are pretty much dead." (It is not the safest time to fly.) pic.twitter.com/a3BnajAbj5
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 13, 2020
Truly deranged, InfoWars level stuff from The Federalist. pic.twitter.com/FzBTldunsg
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 13, 2020
Endangering your family and community to own the libs https://t.co/TVUymudTTN pic.twitter.com/4iZ6B1hEnY
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 15, 2020
three days before Fox acted, President Trump sent Regan’s commentary and a defense of its content to his 73-million Twitter followers https://t.co/OVTPYlDMFA
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 15, 2020
This secret recording of @SenatorBurr suggests some in the GOP fully grasped how serious COVID 19 would be, but refused to say so publicly — putting American lives at risk to maintain allegiance to the Trump WH: https://t.co/QJJT2manDT
— Alex Wagner (@alexwagner) March 19, 2020
Republicans try to limit authority of Kentucky’s Democratic governor
Republicans try to limit the power of governors when Democrats are elected. Biden is wrong. You can’t work with these people.
Kentucky Republicans have been so furious a Democrat deigned to win the governorship last year, they've been doing everything they can to strip Andy Beshear of his powers. Their latest effort: a bill to take away his ability to issue executive orders https://t.co/IIwaSYka5n
— David Nir (@DavidNir) March 7, 2020
This is happening in state after state–GOP stripping powers from Democratic elected officials. It has the effect of nullifying voter chioices. (Kentucky has a Dem governor but GOP controls both houses of the legislature and a veto can be overridden with a simple majority.) https://t.co/47Vr2HfWnf
— Perry Bacon Jr. (@perrybaconjr) February 21, 2020
David Crosby rating joints
Twitter at its best!
David Crosby Will Rate Your Joint #DavidCrosby @thedavidcrosby #Marijuana https://t.co/30kU8CcVbT via @RollingStone
— Tracy C (@TheTraceC) March 17, 2020
Poor …looks like a snake who swallowed a bowling ball https://t.co/pzI0z2pA6M
— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) March 5, 2020
Sad! 