Stats on tv come from Johns Hopkins University or the networks. The federal government should be issuing them. Now , the Trump cult media is attacking the stats to excuse Trump’s poor handling of the pandemic. They wouldn’t be able to do this if the stats came from the Trump administration.
Month: April 2020
More on not broadcasting Trump’s lies live
"The media should not air Trump's propaganda pressers live. It doesn't matter if they critique with chyrons. Would you applaud a Hitler rally being aired live in his era? Mussolini? Milosevic? Or would you see it as profoundly dangerous?" — @gaslitnation https://t.co/VCTcnQGOfO
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 22, 2020
Yes, why?? https://t.co/3euraFuOfn
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) April 15, 2020
Restating: If I ran a newsoom I would not run his briefings live. I would not send reporters so he can waste our time and use them as hate objects. I would tell them to watch it on CSPAN and report any news that emerges. If he makes a factual claim it has to be verified or no go.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 9, 2020
Gee, it’s as though the administration is more concerned with maintaining a source of the president’s narcissistic supply, and an outlet for his narcissistic rage, than it is with providing accurate information to the public about the pandemic. https://t.co/OtFarHFyDm
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 9, 2020
Short version of this story: @vp’s office is withholding public-health experts from appearing on @cnn unless @cnn televises what @vp’s office demands. https://t.co/FLwPEX14qV
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) April 9, 2020
No one wants you to stop the conferences, because each one of them provides material for new ads against you. The issue is whether your falsehoods should be carried *live* without correction. https://t.co/3hhNsb5FMw
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 8, 2020
The Baltimore Sun's media critic, @davidzurawik, has a proposal. https://t.co/4lsRPe9dTY The tide is turning on broadcasting his deceptions and attacks live. pic.twitter.com/ttcBZovRNq
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 8, 2020
The New York Times stopped running Trump's coronavirus briefings live on https://t.co/VKIPNo0zt8 when it saw that they were like campaign rallies, and other tales of briefing madness: https://t.co/59FNfF3UxM
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) April 8, 2020
BREAKING: MSNBC cut away from a lot of Trump’s coronavirus press conference. They are now only airing when doctors speak. #StopAiringTrump
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) April 8, 2020
The briefings are nothing but campaign rallies. Stop airing them.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 9, 2020
How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb for Donald Trump?
The following is a quarantine crowdsource joke-writing exercise.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 7, 2020
How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb for Donald Trump?#trumplightbulb
Tax money should not be used to support religion
This is the direct funding of religion with money taxed from the rest of us, some of whom may not believe in anybody’s god. https://t.co/pivYtipXjB
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 7, 2020
Unlike other nonprofits, houses of worship need not apply for 501(c)(3) status to be eligible for PPP funding. Zero transparency, zero accountability. https://t.co/Xxo9bfHiAL
— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) April 7, 2020
Say what now? https://t.co/rzplufDGwE
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 8, 2020
Trump’s endless lies
The level of sociopathy and lying here is off the charts. This "travel ban" didn't have nearly the impact Trump and his propagandists pretend it did, and what makes this even more depraved is that they attacked media/Dems early on for hyping coronravirus to harm him! https://t.co/Raxj7xOxYK
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 13, 2020
He lied about voter fraud. He tried to rewrite history about his "flu" comments. He denied saying something he said 16 minutes prior. He exaggerated about the WHO. He wrongly declared Biden admitted being wrong about China travel. Fact check on last night: https://t.co/QezKL1Gch8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 8, 2020
African Americans in Mississippi account for 56% of coronavirus cases and 72% of deaths, state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said. “We’re seeing some significant disparities, some racial disparities both in the percentage of cases we’re seeing and deaths." https://t.co/f3VxbKv0U3
— CNN (@CNN) April 8, 2020
Trump has said four times since last week that his administration inherited obsolete or flawed tests.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2020
This makes no sense whatsoever. This coronavirus was identified this year. The faulty tests were developed this year. https://t.co/JUMlQB0cah
To put this claim in perspective, there are (or, at least, were) between 150-160 million jobs in the entire United States.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 7, 2020
Trump is claiming that his daughter created 10 percent of ALL THE JOBS.
https://t.co/Nzin7VPINP
Lies. On 2/28/20 on the South Lawn I ASKED you about the W.H.O. telling us the risk for COVID19 had increased. You blew off the question to tell us about Your rally that night. You blew it. Not the W.H.O. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/DHhSgURGRt
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 7, 2020
Trump calls a reporter "horrid" for asking a question about testing. He then falsely claims, as he did three times last week, that the initial tests were old and obsolete. That is completely nonsensical. They were developed in 2020. This is a new virus.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Trump falsely says of the H1N1 pandemic: "The other administration, they didn’t even know — it was like they didn’t even know it was here."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Just ridiculous. Obama declared a public health emergency within two weeks of the first confirmed US case.
Trump repeats his false claim that people are being tested getting on and off planes. Just not happening. Airlines and airports have no idea what he's talking about.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Trump said at this briefing that, before him, "China never spent money in our country."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
That is beyond a lie — it's just bonkers. Even ignoring FDI, China has spent more than $100B on US goods every year since 2011. https://t.co/WARcFVzxiX
Fact check: President Trump made yet another series of inaccurate or misleading claims at a coronavirus briefing on Friday https://t.co/KYokIQLXOB
— CNN (@CNN) April 4, 2020
Fact check: President Trump says some states aren't in jeopardy from the coronavirus and denies saying it would go away by April https://t.co/rk4f0wWEVH pic.twitter.com/SXZFkbykG0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 4, 2020
Reminded that he said the virus would go away in April, Trump falsely said, "I didn't say a date."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 3, 2020
February 10 rally: "Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. I hope that's true."
Once more: The president pushed back against the suggestion of suspending domestic plane and rail travel by saying passengers on planes and trains are getting tested twice, before departure and after arrival.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 3, 2020
They are not being tested at all: https://t.co/p8CUsRkxs2
After depicting the coronavirus as the flu and arguing life should go on as normal, Trump now portrays himself as the man who saved lives by standing up to the people who depicted the coronavirus as the flu and argued life should go on as normal. https://t.co/U047SoYyP3
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 1, 2020
Trump is now falsely denying that he said his comments about not calling governors who don't treat you right, then he says, "I don't call. But Mike Pence calls. And the head of FEMA calls." He then says he's never told Pence not to, though he's said he HAS said that to Pence.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2020
Trump could not have become President without unprecedented free media from TV networks in 2015-16. Now the same networks are giving him a daily platform to spread disinformation in a pandemic. https://t.co/LGEaN9ErSA
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 27, 2020
Trump says he doesn't want to stand here for two hours at these briefings, but "it's important for the public to know." He says "it gives our country confidence." He says, "I'm very transparent."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 23, 2020
He's been relentlessly dishonest and inaccurate in these briefings.
Wisconsin voting
No one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy like the debacle in Wisconsin this week. https://t.co/fbDCbOb9qN
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 10, 2020
Wisconsin’s Health Department is “monitoring” whether Tuesday’s primary election resulted in the spread of the coronavirus among voters https://t.co/8oNkZeyLiU
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 10, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts' unwavering, limited view of voting access seen in Wisconsin ruling https://t.co/YchiD8dFF3 pic.twitter.com/8HdBKWhehp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 8, 2020
This iconic photo was shot by @Pmcknightnews, an intern at @journalsentinel. pic.twitter.com/KgGeugYziW
— Daniel Medina (@dmedin11) April 7, 2020
"Now Wisconsin is conducting an election that the state’s largest newspaper — which previously endorsed Republican leaders including former Gov. Scott Walker — called 'the most undemocratic in the state’s history.'”https://t.co/2QiMs8mLQx
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 7, 2020
Milwaukee resident Jennifer Taff requested an absentee ballot almost three weeks ago, never got it. She has a father dying from lung disease and then waited hours in line to vote at Washington High School. Photo from Patricia McKnight.
— JR Radcliffe (@JRRadcliffe) April 7, 2020
More: https://t.co/i7weo2xdfv pic.twitter.com/ceHb2i8zpC
Whenever you hear someone complain about "liberal activist judges," think of this moment where the Supreme Court's conservative majority quite literally made up law to require Wisconsin to hold its primary election in the midst of a deadly pandemic. https://t.co/w8IzmRljWn
— Doug Gansler (@DougGansler) April 7, 2020
I really admire the brave people in Wisconsin who are voting today.
The last people to vote in-person in Wisconsin will likely vote well after midnight following hours of standing in line. Keep in mind the Supreme Court disallowed any of these people the sensible right to vote by mail tomorrow https://t.co/VOiTdKQPNf
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) April 7, 2020
Lines forming just 30 minutes after polls open in Milwaukee, people trying to space. Almost everyone has a mask pic.twitter.com/KVCJ7Ik0Xe
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) April 7, 2020
Polls open in minutes. Here’s a look at the line in Waukesha, the city’s only polling location pic.twitter.com/Uqg08gannt
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 7, 2020
Translation: Wisconsin expose yourselves to Coronavirus in order to facilitate election theft https://t.co/z5errxnAzX
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) April 7, 2020
If you think that this is what should be happening today, you’re either uninformed about coronavirus, a nihilistic partisan, or a Republican-appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) April 7, 2020
(or a combo) https://t.co/H7xKNHU0fL
Election officials are furious about this. They say it’s both voter suppression and a dangerous disregard for safety by asking people to risk their lives to vote in a pandemic when it easily could have been delayed. https://t.co/JLc0qOjAzr
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) April 7, 2020
This is the death lottery stage of the Republicans' voter suppression effort. https://t.co/h3mKskOiJC
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 7, 2020
The Milwaukee voters I'm talking to are preparing to wait for about 5 hours. Remember, the city went from 180 polling locations to 5
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) April 7, 2020
Milwaukee has 16% of state's population but half the coronavirus cases in state
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 7, 2020
As a result, city was able to open only 5 polling places, instead of usual 180, for population of 600,000
This is what happens when GOP refuses to send ballots to every voter https://t.co/funuh4QfDX
The voting tragedy here in Wisconsin is unjust, but my anger has turned into profound sadness that our institutions have failed us so spectacularly. More than ever, all we can do is keep fighting for voters. These are not hypotheticals. These are voters with rights. Here's a few:
— Molly McGrath (@votermolly) April 7, 2020
Wisconsin is a wake up call for November. Last week Trump said the quiet part out loud, Republicans can’t win if everyone votes. It’s time for every state to adopt mail in voting & coronavirus safety measures at the polls. The time is now-No suppression through fear of safety. https://t.co/Eo9t9WD1IP
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 7, 2020
As politically lopsided as Madison is, still amazing to see these no.'s from WI's April 7 state Sup Crt race
— Craig Gilbert (@WisVoter) April 16, 2020
Ward 42: Karofsky 1866 Kelly 43
Wd 40: 1841 to 50
Wd 41: 2066 to 59
Wd 44: 1171 to 47
Wd 69: 1179 to 50
Wd 45: 2147 to 93
Wd 29: 1711 to 77
all 96%+
47 wds of >90%
Navarro warned about a pandemic
Yes, a memo from a senior adviser warned in January that a pandemic could exact a massive toll. But it relied heavily on data from a September report looking at pandemics in the abstract. https://t.co/cFwH1Wsp7S
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 8, 2020
SCOOP – WH trade adviser Peter Navarro wrote a late January memo warning of a possible pandemic that would cause financial and human catastrophe https://t.co/aRPARYdNm8
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 7, 2020
These memos are devastating https://t.co/8roELFHfd8 pic.twitter.com/TRediD8kv7
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 7, 2020
Why did Navarro not go public when Trump refused to take this seriously? https://t.co/mpjzzusokJ
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 7, 2020
NEW: While Peter Navarro wrote memos privately warning coronavirus could kill millions here and inflict trillions of economic damage he was publicly saying there was "nothing to worry about" and the economy was not at risk from a slowdown in China.https://t.co/LgXFyeA4ae pic.twitter.com/2HKLQYpVNM
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 10, 2020
Why we need oversight of the stimulus funds
None of the oversight mechanisms established in the $2 trillion coronavirus relief law are operational, even as hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars begin flowing — and lawmakers seek to layer on hundreds of billions more.https://t.co/JOIXhJfNbu
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 9, 2020
Endless corruption. The House needs to be investigating this. https://t.co/CzSaG0Hc0F
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) April 6, 2020
A Pharma-funded group tied to a top Trump donor has been pushing Trump to approve the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19
This explains why Trump is pushing this drug – it helps one of his donors.
A Pharma-funded group tied to a top Trump donor has been pushing Trump to approve the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19. https://t.co/nwyd0hYEWR
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 6, 2020
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro took his reported dispute with the nation's top infectious disease expert out of the situation room and onto cable news https://t.co/jBu2aUlGQW
— POLITICO (@politico) April 6, 2020
“Communities of color, lower income households and vulnerable populations are bearing the brunt of covid 19”
Why @michaelharriot is so necessary:
— @tiffanydcross (@TiffanyDCross) April 9, 2020
“As the media reports higher coronavirus infection & deaths rates for black America, it is also important to be as diligent at reporting why black people are disproportionately affected…” https://t.co/NIGwFXLCyF
African Americans in Mississippi account for 56% of coronavirus cases and 72% of deaths, state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said. “We’re seeing some significant disparities, some racial disparities both in the percentage of cases we’re seeing and deaths." https://t.co/f3VxbKv0U3
— CNN (@CNN) April 8, 2020
Fellow journalists: When covering Covid-19, please stop saying "people of color," "communities of color," when you mean black. It's inaccurate and speaks to your own discomfort, not to the facts.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 7, 2020
It’s irresponsible to write “Coronavirus is killing black people” without explaining why.
— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) April 8, 2020
And we know why:
Poverty, medical redlining, doctor bias, profiteering…
It’s like reporting: “For some reason, Black people keep dying when the cops show up”
YOU.
HAVE.
TO.
SAY.
WHY.
Black communities disproportionately suffer from pre-existing conditions, increasing coronavirus risk.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 7, 2020
20% more likely to have asthma.
40% more likely to have high blood pressure.
Black women are 3x more likely to have lupus.
Racial justice is at the forefront of this crisis.
Thanks @AprilDRyan! What are our numbers in NY @NYGovCuomo @melissadderosa? African Americans Disproportionately Affected by Coronavirus https://t.co/XaIQBgjIco
— Karen Boykin-Towns (@KarenBTowns) April 7, 2020
Covid-19 is ravaging black communities. A Milwaukee neighborhood is figuring out how to fight back. A sad, angering, hopeful dispatch: https://t.co/pzqzNM3udr
— Robert Samuels (@newsbysamuels) April 7, 2020
As our nation continues to battle this pandemic, we must acknowledge that the economic impact will disproportionately affect Black communities.@TheBlackCaucus has put together this guide with resources to help address the financial burden.https://t.co/MOm9pJqzj2
— James E. Clyburn (@WhipClyburn) April 7, 2020
Chicago's mayor says racial disparities in the city's coronavirus tallies "take your breath away." Black residents have accounted for 52 percent of the positive tests and 72 percent of the deaths. https://t.co/PohUE1vs7v
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) April 6, 2020
BREAKING NEWS: Louisiana just released COVID-19 data which shows that African-Americans account for 70% of ALL DEATHS in the state.
— Elizabeth Thomas (@lizzkatherine_) April 6, 2020
African-Americans makes up roughly 32% of the population. #COVID19
In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, black people account for 26 percent of the population, nearly half of its coronavirus cases and 81 percent of its deaths.https://t.co/i6qElfttco
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 6, 2020
Julian Bond said violence is going to school for 12 years and getting 6 years of education. For low-income, disproportionately black and Latino kids, this covid period is going to be known as the lost months that stole the education of kids who already weren’t getting their due. https://t.co/BQbxcOFHrh
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 6, 2020
When Covid-19 first hit America hard last month, the narrative was that it was the great equalizer, that in such a divided nation, our shared humanity meant we would be equal in our suffering. But those of us who understand racial caste in America knew this could never be true.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 6, 2020
Staying at home is a privilege, says @CharlesMBlow. "For the people who can’t they must make terrible choices: stay home and risk starvation or go to work and risk contagion." https://t.co/XJqveCfixs
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 6, 2020
Chicago’s black population is 29%. 70% of those who’ve died from covid in Chicago are African-American. https://t.co/KPi0JXWcmX
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 5, 2020
every time I post new data showing African-Americans are dying from covid at 3X their population some Really Smart Man jumps into to insist it’s just because they’re already poor and are more likely to have underlying conditions like this is some big gotcha
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 5, 2020
Black journalists have repeatedly asked for race-inclusive data on coronavirus but people keep wondering why we want to inject race into a global pandemic.
— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) April 5, 2020
Here's a list of reasons:
It’s unfathomable how many Black people are going to die because white voters, largely motivated by racism, made the wrong choice for president. https://t.co/xyOYi1ArFf
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 5, 2020
Coronavirus is the “great equalizer” the same way that climate change is the “great equalizer,” which is to say: not at all.
— Jie Jenny Zou (@jiejennyzou) April 4, 2020
Communities of color, lower income households and vulnerable populations are bearing the brunt of covid 19
In a highly-segregated city like Baltimore where your zip code determines health outcomes, we have to know how COVID-19 is impacting people differently.
— Brandon M. Scott (@CouncilPresBMS) April 6, 2020
What data from other states makes clear: this virus is disproportionately impacting Black communities.https://t.co/Eqjc5j4N2z
Sad! 