The Trump cult does not believe in science or facts. This will make it harder for us to improve the situation.
As the death toll keeps going up, @realDonaldTrump will continue to attack the numbers as being false or manipulated and sell his followers on another great conspiracy.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) May 11, 2020
"Since the outset of the crisis, elements of the right have sought to bolster the president’s political standing and justify reopening the economy by questioning the death toll." @allmattnyt @jimrutenberg https://t.co/Le4JMlyGU8
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) May 9, 2020
"At this moment of national trauma, our president can’t seem to muster even a poor imitation of compassion for the victims," writes @djrothkopf. What is more, rather than waging a war against the disease, he is waging one against the statistics." https://t.co/EyQo7Jkysa
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 7, 2020
Trump hasn’t even attempted to show compassion for those who have died but he will almost certainly stand in front of the American public and tell them that their friends and loved ones didn’t actually die and it’s all a hoax against him. https://t.co/dqLyRjWjW1
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) May 7, 2020
An increasing number of conservatives are convinced the medical community and the media are inflating the coronavirus death toll for political purposes, despite nearly all evidence indicating that, if anything, the figure is an undercount https://t.co/ARg2mpCg3q
— POLITICO (@politico) May 7, 2020
This is going to be a big test of the media–how many will shift the death toll into the category of "politicized" issues where one person believes one thing & another person believes another and be realllly careful about saying who's right because we can't "appear to take sides" https://t.co/Kawih5TLPg
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) May 6, 2020
This has a narrative that has saturated right-wing media. A version of the theory has been floated by personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, and more. As I wrote back in April, won't surprise me one bit if Trump latches on to it. https://t.co/Mv8NNvD8IL https://t.co/wVbEvAVB9y
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 6, 2020
Sad! 