I wrote about how Trump keeps playing the media like a puppet. Yes, we’ve gotten better — but history will not judge us kindly. https://t.co/pRoz1oLKM4
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 28, 2020
The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings. My column https://t.co/nIs5L051zq
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) March 21, 2020
The %'s have basically been frozen in this place since 2018. Three out of ten Americans say Trump is honest no matter what he says or does. https://t.co/Hgb3aKKKc8
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 27, 2020
Standing in front of the country and lying every single day about literally everything probably not helping with those numbers https://t.co/MLIGF05EUl
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) April 27, 2020
You may perhaps have noticed that the president’s weekend tweets were both very dishonest and very weird. Here are some fact checks. https://t.co/gfYGU7NBeF
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 27, 2020
Analysis: Trump’s Twitter rant suggests his coronavirus falsehoods will only get worse https://t.co/vY0hpROGaH
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 27, 2020
Trump is now routinely lying about things we saw with our own eyes and are on tape https://t.co/8RR7Lm8e5z
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2020
“Simply put, it’s a bald face lie,” says @JakeTapper on President Trump’s false claim he did not suggest looking into internal disinfectant as a coronavirus treatment.
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) April 24, 2020
"It's ridiculous. Obviously he was not being sarcastic," added Tapper. https://t.co/T3bSmtVZkt pic.twitter.com/KcJyg9cqKk
Tonight was the 9th time Trump has said Michelle Obama went to Georgia to unsuccessfully campaign against Brian Kemp, though she didn't do that. He started saying it in November 2018, the week after he was asked about her criticizing his birther comments. https://t.co/zG7Kh21OV4
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 23, 2020
Trump has been criticizing this imaginary "one car per family" policy for a year now. It is a complete invention. The Green New Deal doesn't propose any limits on car ownership, and it certainly doesn't call for the elimination of cars. It calls for zero-emissions vehicles. pic.twitter.com/lwWXveKGSZ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 10, 2020
He lied about "Russia, if you're listening." He shrunk Reagan's crowds. He said a bunch of nonsense about Ebola. He told one of his favorite imaginary stories about people crying around him.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 9, 2020
Trump made 115 false claims in the last two weeks of February: https://t.co/1mmDAW94sw
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— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 27, 2020
It’s Nobel and they got Pulitzers, not Nobels. These are pathetic tweets from Trump. Of course, the reporters were right about Russian interference, too. Even a Senate panel led by a Republican confirmed it.
The word Pulitzer is trending on Twitter in the U.S. because the president confused the Nobel Prizes with the Pulitzer Prizes. The word Noble is also trending, because he misspelled Nobel.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 26, 2020
I don't know of anyone who has won a Noble, or a Nobel, prize for their journalism in the Trump administration. https://t.co/Xpan76Tqd9
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 26, 2020
Those reporters are indeed noble. You are ignoble. You are also ignorant. You refer to the wrong prize, and have misspelled it, to boot.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 26, 2020
You’re so far in over your head you can’t even see the surface. https://t.co/1lkcL1tnoM
When did they start awarding the “Noble” Prize in Journalism? Would love to see the list of winners. https://t.co/m2aXQFthpC
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) April 26, 2020
54,000 dead, and he went on a misspelled rant about "Noble Prizes." https://t.co/vQpNm96mmJ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 26, 2020
More than 2,000 Americans died yesterday due to a pandemic the president was totally unprepared for. He’s melting down on Twitter and trying to crowdsource frivolous lawsuits. pic.twitter.com/7PHvzjsC6w
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/RonCharles/status/1254486881074642955?s=20
Separate from his rant about reporters getting Pulitzers for Russia-Trump coverage, the president has strongly suggested that he is being mistreated because he has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. These two complaints seem to have gotten mixed up in his mind today. https://t.co/PrgcqQEFoO
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 26, 2020
It's just another Sunday, but the President doesn't know the difference between a Pulitzer and a Nobel, and he can't spell "Nobel." https://t.co/yNMnoD2eMW
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 26, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump, it seems that it really, really bothers you that your predecessor won a prize that you can’t even spell. https://t.co/2JIvLnfubB
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 26, 2020
Does anybody get the meaning of what a so-called Noble (not Nobel) Prize is, especially as it pertains to Reporters and Journalists? Noble is defined as, “having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.” Does sarcasm ever work?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
Trump is still doing his Nobel Prize nomination thing even though they awarded it to someone else on Friday
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) October 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1315810513876586496?s=20
Trump: "I've been — I guess, three or four, maybe now: Nobel Peace Prizes. Can you believe it? Four. Three."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 12, 2020
He's received nominations, not the prize itself.
Trump tells his story about he how and Melania recently watched the evening news expecting to see coverage of his Nobel nominations, but were dismayed that the news was covering a hurricane in Florida and flooding in Iowa instead. This is supposed to make the media look bad. pic.twitter.com/62gzutni0D
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020
Professional medal guy here. I’ve actually catalogued/authenticated a Nobel Peace Prize before (it brought over a million bucks at auction).
— John Kraljevich (@JohnSpiroSpero) December 29, 2020
That’s not even a Nobel Peace Prize. The medal depicted is awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature.
Idiot. https://t.co/hcQMbkypGG
Michelle Obama did not go to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams. Trump has said this repeatedly. He keeps adding her to the list with Oprah and Barack Obama. It just didn't happen.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2020
MSNBC spokesperson tells me this is not true.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 22, 2020
CNN spokesperson says, "This is completely untrue. CNN is not on a delay." https://t.co/aBdWikZjRU
Fact check: President Trump claims the U.S. is testing "more people than anybody anywhere." https://t.co/9GHwSNXFFL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 21, 2020
Trump: "I've watched some of the protests — not in great detail," and they're "separated…a lot of space in between." Some groups have been spread out, some very much have not.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020
Trump: Our "mortality rate remains roughly 1/2 that of many other countries and one of the lowest of any country in the world."
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 21, 2020
Per Johns Hopkins, we are far below the most hard-hit countries like Spain, UK, Italy. But overall, most countries are lower.https://t.co/V0lX0EfGlw
Trump lies, claims US has done more testing than all other countries combined (that's not true) pic.twitter.com/8rQestoXkI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2020
The president was told that he had a campaign rally last month. He responded that he hasn’t left the White House in months except for one non-rally.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020
The utter shamelessness of his dishonesty was on display again tonight. Latest briefing fact check: https://t.co/5by3ANibUw
Watch: Trump denies saying things he previously said about the coronavirus https://t.co/Nov4SbSc0Dpic.twitter.com/UBZ39trBmU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2020
It’s not really been remarked on enough that governors are regularly recording their calls with the president and other admin officials because they know Trump is going to lie about them and they need proof. This is not a normal thing. https://t.co/WuYDf5lPUi
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 21, 2020
Fact check: President Trump falsely claims he hasn't left the White House in "months" at a briefing with more inaccuracies https://t.co/diYjfvAYtj pic.twitter.com/5SR2bjRr1U
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 21, 2020
Trump's evolving exaggeration of what Pelosi said in San Francisco Chinatown in late February is a good little example of how he operates with dishonesty. 1/
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020
Trump repeats the most boring of his favorite false claims, the one about how there used to be a trade deficit of $500 billion with China, even up to $550 billion. (He adds that this money came "out of our hides.") There has never once been a $500 billion deficit with China.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
Missed this when I was off Friday: Trump said, again, that "175,000 people showed up" for his 9,000-capacity rally in Wildwood, NJ.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
7,725 attended the rally. Spokesman for the local tourism authority says between 5,000 and 6,000 people were in the park and parking lot outside.
No, it’s not easy to get reagents.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020
No, Trump didn’t “inherit” bad coronavirus tests.
No, Trump didn’t fully “ban” travel from China, Europe.
No, all the protesters weren’t six feet apart.
Yes, people foresaw this kind of crisis.
Fact check on tonight: https://t.co/7gOLifk4Rt
Trump makes sure to mention that he owns a hotel in Las Vegas and then falsely claims he's "not involved" in it (he still owns and profits from it) pic.twitter.com/0w7RLdX4de
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 19, 2020
Lying about we can all see with our own eyes… https://t.co/gD74C1a9yZ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 19, 2020
His rating with Republicans is very high but he still feels the need to lie about it. Sad!
Trump's imaginary Republican approval rating: a history
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020
(If anyone does find a current poll in which he's actually at 96%, please let me know. It is not Rasmussen, Fox News, Quinnipiac, CNN, Gallup, Harvard-Harris, Monmouth, Ipsos, or NBC/WSJ.) pic.twitter.com/MIBPtkryCK
Enjoyed this related piece by @pbump, a true master of thinking up Trump-related charts and quantitative measures. https://t.co/AEy4JzCpjM https://t.co/MtN5wd30Gw
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020
Trump's self-reported approval in the GOP, in order as tweeted:
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 22, 2020
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He lies about how they handled the H1N1 swine flu outbreak. He’s trying to divert attention away from his failures.
CNN's fact-check team has thoroughly vetted Trump's previous false claims about the 2009 swine flu pandemic and about the Obama/Biden response. Here is one https://t.co/YFZL8otbod and here is the second https://t.co/R3MhcuKTru https://t.co/K5NNbqVngV
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) April 17, 2020
Your dishonesty has no limits. H1N1 was an immediate top priority & handled decisively. FDA quickly approved testing kits, issued emergency authorizations & approved rapidly developed vaccines. Approval of Obama/Biden leadership was 66% at beginning of outbreak; 57% through fall. https://t.co/JNLgsxTKZm
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) April 17, 2020
Facts on #H1N1: Within 2 wks of the id of the outbreak,@FDA approved CDC-created test kits. By September 2009 FDA had approved 4 influenza vaccines. During the crisis @CDCgov released 11 million treatment courses of Tamiflu & Relenza. #Obama led & USG agencies saved lives. https://t.co/4VL8C07o8u
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) April 17, 2020
icymi
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) April 17, 2020
[April 2009]
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Obama administration is handling the swine flu situation?
Approve 66%
Disapprove 16%
(Gallup Poll, 4/28/09)
more: https://t.co/uWvCNHr6um
The H1N1 flu killed 12,456 Americans, not 17K alleged here nor the more than 31K who already have perished in the pandemic @realDonaldTrump told us in February was a “hoax.”
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 17, 2020
The @BarackObama admin mobilized quickly and was consistently led by the science. It’s a good template. https://t.co/lbYjQyRrKv
Also, the rest of the world didn’t blame America despite the fact that the H1N1 swine flu came from overcrowded factory farmed pigs in North America and was first detected in California. Nobody called it the “American Pig Flu” or tried to punish America and blame the WHO.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) April 17, 2020
In the span of 7 minutes, @realDonaldTrump:
— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) April 17, 2020
1) Claimed the federal response to H1N1 Swine Flu under a former 🇺🇸 President was a 'disaster'…
2) THEN told states the response is THEIR responsibility.
It would be helpful to clarify:
SO. WHO. IS. IN. CHARGE. OF. THE. RESPONSE? https://t.co/cf94yVEsXf pic.twitter.com/GYO0dejFeV
Approval of Obama's handling of H1N1 (@CNN Nov 2009): 57%
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 17, 2020
Approval of Trump's handling of coronavirus (@Reuters @ipsosus April 15): 48% https://t.co/3GVPdYBFRMhttps://t.co/PI3u7Xbrsx https://t.co/DTpvvmUaLs
Wonder if anyone will ask Dr. Fauci, who was there, if he viewed the Obama Admin’s handling of the H1N1 pandemic a “disaster?”
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 17, 2020
I also wonder whether @realDonaldTrump will let him answer?
Finally, I wonder why Trump feels this foolishness is helpful to him or the country? https://t.co/Jn0IAIkHBk
The official CDC number for the H1N1 swineflu was 12,000 American deaths after a year of the pandemic.
— Morten Øverbye (@morten) April 17, 2020
Current death toll of the coronavirus is 35,394 American deaths, and it is rising for every day that passes with the current incompetent handling of the pandemic.
This kind of denialism can be lethal. Pollsters found that people who watched Fox News in 2009 were less likely to say that they would get vaccinated against H1N1. Among those who advised against H1N1 vaccination on Fox News in 2009 was Donald Trump. https://t.co/CQDlO72xMb
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 17, 2020
The Obama administration was 3 months old when it called H1N1 a health emergency 6 weeks before WHO declared it a pandemic. The Trump administration was more than 3 years old when it botched the response for the coronavirus. https://t.co/22Z8sjqGeR
— Morten Øverbye (@morten) April 17, 2020
He's still comparing it to the 2009 swine flu, where a third as any people died over the course of a year? OK. https://t.co/7asu0ej6Z7
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 17, 2020
Some things dont age that well. Tronald Dump tweeting in 2009 about Swine Flu. pic.twitter.com/xsKYcH3E3g
— Real_JasonJHunter (@JJHTweets) April 17, 2020
Has any politician ever lied this much?
Trump lies that China "paid us nothing in your last administration" or in "any previous administration." In addition to the fact that the tariffs are paid by Americans, it was about $12 billion a year from China tariffs from 2007 to 2016.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020
Fact check: A list of false claims from President Trump's bitter coronavirus briefing https://t.co/N6ZqOUnPPe pic.twitter.com/IcS0hIvins
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 14, 2020
Fact Checker: Trump has made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days https://t.co/P39h4LkiWz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 14, 2020
The President falsely claimed today that the media ignored the coronavirus in January & February. We have receipts: https://t.co/qXilEE4q8R pic.twitter.com/WqEwyi8bFF
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) April 14, 2020
We’ve fact-checked this many times. It is a complete lie. https://t.co/muFURw9lXQ https://t.co/WywyOxn4cY
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) April 12, 2020
When I pressed him on voter fraud, Trump could not back up his claim of widespread vote by mail fraud at the briefing so he repeated an old lie about voter fraud in California. It's been debunked before and rated "pants on fire." https://t.co/2qTAhMkVcM
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 8, 2020
Trump falsely describes his travel restrictions as "closing it down to Europe." He has never shut down travel from Europe. He's exempted a number of countries, and a number of groups of people even from the covered countries.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2020
President Trump today after the resignation of Navy chief Tom Modly: “I don’t know him.”
— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) April 7, 2020
Trump and Modly at the Army-Navy game, four months ago: pic.twitter.com/83GGveTmsH
Just rewatched the clip: before offering the absurd spin about his previous comments about the virus being like the flu, Trump said, "Ready?"
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2020
"Ready?" has become the telltale sign that an audaciously dishonest story is coming. https://t.co/7CJC47q9rI
Trump: GM and Ford are making ventilators "right now."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 23, 2020
AP fact check: GM and Ford are not yet making ventilators. https://t.co/Dlkn4U8fB3
President Trump literally just said he doesn't praise China's transparency when he literally tweeted on January 24 praising China's "efforts and transparency." https://t.co/zVew3c212c
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 14, 2020
Trump: “We inherited a stockpile where the cupboards are bare.” This is not true. https://t.co/hdUsDOaHHA
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 13, 2020
Trump now repeating the “I inherited the broken system/empty cupboard” line about the National Medical Stockpile. Never mentions he’s had 38 months to refill it.
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) April 6, 2020
Jared Kushner said the national stockpile is “not supposed to be state stockpiles.” Here are the facts about how the stockpile is intended to help the states: https://t.co/4PPBoF7A4h pic.twitter.com/PunfzTxmPB
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) April 6, 2020
and if anyone desires to read about what @lawhawk states, pls see following:https://t.co/Vgokr4HfVZ
— Hobbes (@shadowcaver) April 5, 2020
So, you know that story making the rounds that Obama depleted the pandemic prevention stockpile and didn't replenish it?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 5, 2020
I'm sure you've seen that make the rounds.
from the thread above: “Turns out that the stockpile wasn’t replenished due to the Tea Party blocking Obama’s funding requests, coupled with sequestration and Budget Control Act that prevented a full replenishment.”
“Trump angrily defended the approach in his Friday news conference, his early sunny demeanor darkening as he was pressed on expected death rates and his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s comments suggesting the national stockpile is not intended for states” https://t.co/PWcKG0WdcA
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) April 4, 2020
Trump is now trying to blame Obama for the fact he didn't replenish the national stockpile of ventilators or masks during his first three years in office pic.twitter.com/RYKNJjTr1I
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 13, 2020
Susan Rice: "When the Obama Administration left office, we left the National Strategic Stockpile fully stocked." pic.twitter.com/yKOzFcRenc
— The Hill (@thehill) April 14, 2020
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.
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
Sad!