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
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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.
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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
Covers: John Hardy
“John Hardy” is an American folk song which, like many others, is based on a true story. The song has been recorded many times since the 1920s. I like the alt-country version by Uncle Tupelo. It’s loud, stripped-down and fast.
Remembering Doc Watson, born on this day in 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina. Here he is playing “John Hardy” with Earl Scruggs, his sons Randy and Steve, and Doc’s son Merle in 1972. pic.twitter.com/xXnyt9K4JV
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) March 3, 2020
Trump benefits from misleading headlines and tweets
The media doesn’t always point out that his comments are lies or misleading.
This is similar
Headline choices can be easy to Monday morning quarterback, but this is a great example of how we all need to up our game – and make sure accuracy is not eclipsed by the ideal of objectivity – all typically well expressed by @AdamSerwer https://t.co/FZS61dHI7g
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) March 31, 2020
Or, "Republicans Insist on a Heavily Criticized Plan That, Critics Say, Rewards Corporations at the Expense of Workers, Blocking Passage of Stimulus Package; Democrats Continue to Negotiate." C'mon @nytimes. https://t.co/tSSIfxTU5c
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) March 23, 2020
omg these are such incredibly irresponsible headlines. Trumps views don’t “contrast” with health officials. They are outright wrong and misleading! This pathological habit of continuing to present Trumps dishonesty and ignorance as an equal counterpart to truth is so dangerous https://t.co/tkKbWjTxc2
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) February 26, 2020
I just don’t get what the NYT is doing. The headline adopts Trump’s pejorative conspiracy term for our independent civil service and the subhead describes a norm breaking and unlawful abuse of power as “determination.” I mean seriously what is this @deanbaquet? pic.twitter.com/htk11vcW7s
— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) February 12, 2020
Headlines, in print and on screens, provide a snapshot of news delivered to a fractured nation. My column (with a first-time-for-me dateline of Rensselaer, NY) https://t.co/WOChwrfMKt
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) December 11, 2019
What Trump said isn’t accurate and instead of point that out, @AP prints his willfully incorrect statements here without context as if they’re accurate. This is irresponsible to the max. Have news organizations truly learned nothing? https://t.co/wwZA9sVOnp
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) February 27, 2020
I feel like “Trump Assigns Pence Coronavirus Response” or “Trump Open to Larger Supplemental,” while technically accurate, serve to mislead readers who didn’t see the tour de force of insanity that was that press conference. Journalists: It’s ok to describe things accurately.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) February 27, 2020
Wow! That headline was so bad it makes my head hurt. https://t.co/zj8UCWZ3ri
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 28, 2020
These @nytimes headlines are simply nuts. The effect is to just launder bad faith right wing propaganda. pic.twitter.com/0AY7y0Redy
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 29, 2020
I’m not sure outlets should even be elevating the misinformation from Trump admin on coronavirus. What’s the value of a headline like this? We’re always criticizing outlets for posting what Trump says as a headline w/o clarification but it’s gonna be more of a prob w pandemic https://t.co/gNAGiXBI5c
— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) February 28, 2020
If you want to know why Trump tells lies, this is why …
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 5, 2020
… sometimes if you say something untrue you can get a headline, a dek, and a two-paragraph lede repeating your lie only to have it debunked further down. pic.twitter.com/MZyb4MnuIC
Still marveling over yesterday's example of the New York Times amplifying his lying, deflection and misinformation because, you know, he's the president and all. pic.twitter.com/QAFPPcD6Tu
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 6, 2020
Folks, this is going to become a major deal. Headlines will say: "Trump questions Biden's mental fitness for presidency," totally uncritically, with zero context illustrating the deep absurdity of this.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 6, 2020
This is made possible by the utter failure to reckon with Trump's unfitness. https://t.co/uWAmk2gG2z
Which would be unmitigated bullshit, but the @nytimes cannot help itself, so they frequently give you the President’s pov on every story.
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) March 13, 2020
Please stop sucking. https://t.co/uGJOpI33F3
This is not nearly enough pushback for a flatly INSANE AND WRONG Trump assertion. This is nowhere close to true! https://t.co/7qRUDwtYhB pic.twitter.com/k3DFJBvOwa
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) March 30, 2020
Trump lies update 1/20/20
He lies more than ever.
Trump takes advantage of the fact that if the media keeps accusing him of lying, he and his supporters will say they’re biased. The media understates what a liar Trump is in order to appear balanced and fair. It took most of the media years to call him a liar. They used much wimpier terms instead of stating the truth. Nobody will confront Trump and call him a liar to his face. Trump wins on this one.
NEW –> President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years https://t.co/p5HiSDpSzt
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 20, 2020
In mid-November, I published a list of 45 ways Trump had been dishonest about Ukraine and impeachment.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 20, 2020
It’s now 65 ways. Here’s the updated version, with quick fact checks of all 65: https://t.co/Hsxx7N6OBS
CNN's @ddale8 and @tarasubramaniam counted 81 false claims from Trump last week. "Trump is now up to 1,636 false claims since July 8, an average of about nine per day…" https://t.co/gJ9bkG1lKw
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 19, 2020
Honoring the LSU national championship football team, Trump falsely claims the USMCA and his preliminary China deal are the two biggest trade deals in history. Ignoring GATT/WTO rounds: the Trans-Pacific Partnership included all three USMCA countries and also nine others.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 17, 2020
"That’s one of the reasons why Trump kind of wants you to watch CNN instead of MSNBC," Lawrence O’Donnell said in a new interview https://t.co/Hc0AW96qVW
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 14, 2020
Fact-check: 5 times President Trump misquoted his allies and critics on impeachment https://t.co/jBtSB6lpOW pic.twitter.com/laZFjtnQSX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 13, 2020
“If nothing the president says can be trusted, reporting what the president says becomes absurd. You can still do it, but it’s hard to respect what you are doing. If the president doesn’t know anything, the solemnity of the presidency becomes a joke. That’s painful.” https://t.co/bFBKTutCeU
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 12, 2020
Fact check: Trump made 15 false claims during a quiet week in Florida https://t.co/5AYBTVIrDr pic.twitter.com/6KvqCv2MAI
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 11, 2020
Trump is not at 53% approval in any recent poll I can see; he’s at 48% even in the latest Rasmussen daily tracker. (Please let me know if I’m missing a poll.) He’s also still not at 95% with Republicans. Also, 95% with Republicans wouldn’t be a record; GWBush hit 99% post-9/11. pic.twitter.com/vxLDdDMXZm
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020
Preliminary report: Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last night was extremely dishonest. At least 15 false claims.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020
Trump continues to claim that median family income has increased by $10,000 under him. What happened: he took a research firm's estimate of around a $5,000 pre-tax increase, which is much higher than the Census Bureau estimate, and added another $5,000 for nonsensical reasons.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 9, 2020
Update on farmers 10/3/19
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that there are no guarantees that smaller dairy farms will survive:
— Axios (@axios) October 2, 2019
"In America, the big get bigger and the small go out." https://t.co/lnKA0tdcEb
In Wisconsin, 1,200 dairy farms have gone out of business in the last 2 years. Here’s the sympathetic response from Trump’s Ag Secretary:
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 2, 2019
“In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.”https://t.co/5Scaieyv0h
It takes a rare fella to say so plainly that America is essentially a monopoly culture, and that the ultimate goal of a free market is to achieve the absolute minimal amount of actual competition. https://t.co/xVgIizVGMy
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 1, 2019
U.S. farmers receive $14.03 billion so far in government trade aid https://t.co/ZOO0AIU460 pic.twitter.com/Q7iRWjlLmy
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 2, 2019
NEW: In Iowa, farmers are turning on Trump. It's not just trade. Trump is undercutting ethanol
— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) October 1, 2019
"I supported Trump in the last election. Today, if the election were held, I don’t think I could vote for him,” said Kelly Nieuwenhuis, a corn & soybean farmerhttps://t.co/tUhKxR5E3x
This is a curious re-election message for farmers.
— Alex Wayne (@aawayne) October 1, 2019
(551 Wisconsin dairy farms have disappeared so far this year, up from 465 the year Trump took office.)https://t.co/5rQpcCO3sR
Trump's Ag secretary Sonny Perdue in visit to Wisconsin says dairy farms may need to get bigger to survive.
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) October 1, 2019
Wisconsin dairy farmer at Dem presser: "What I heard today from the secretary of agriculture was there's no place for me." https://t.co/5dabWBKSWj via @patrickdmarley
Farmers find another reason to get frustrated with President Trump https://t.co/Adnr1sNGVO pic.twitter.com/GKaxMk782k
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 29, 2019
Just so that you know where all this money is going: “More than 92% of the country’s 2.1 million farmers are non-Hispanic whites, and more than 86% of those farm operators are men.” https://t.co/X9s0vbfRwK
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) September 23, 2019
Update on Trump’s lie about the hurricane
"The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama," @NYTimes reports.https://t.co/nzHml32iJx
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 9, 2019
A top NOAA scientist is probing why NOAA put out bad info to back up Trump.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 9, 2019
Worse, he flatly stated that the public now has reason not to have confidence in the agency's info.
Here are numerous other examples of the suppression of good data under Trump:https://t.co/102nyz9Wkd
As I said yesterday, the Trump-installed NOAA leaders who threw integrity out the window, endangered public safety, and stabbed our scientists in the back—must be held accountable for betraying the public trust and undermining faith in our institutions. They should resign now. https://t.co/E7D9WoOpcF
— Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) September 9, 2019
NWS director Louis Uccellini praised the staff from @NWSBirmingham – who corrected Trump's false claim – and asked them to stand, prompting "a standing ovation from hundreds of forecasters." https://t.co/SwZdyOMvvI
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 9, 2019
Contradicting the president's lies is apparently a firing offense in this administration. Probably because if you start doing it, you won't have time to do anything else.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) September 9, 2019
The use of the word "However," here is also unfortunate, since it suggests this anonymous Trump aide's claim deserves equal weight as an equally likely or plausible explanation for what happened. https://t.co/HUe2wzupYi
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) September 9, 2019
New trove of NOAA FOIA emails from “Sharpiegate” illustrate the fickle nature of scientific credibility under Trump admin. Agency officials, public lamented loss of hard-earned trust https://t.co/vlRk9PXow5
— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) February 29, 2020
