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5/16/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/UN/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION/WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: “Why is it that China, for decades, and with a population much bigger than ours, is paying a tiny fraction of $’s to The World Health Organization, The United Nations and, worst of all, The World Trade Organization, where they are considered a so-called ‘developing country’ and…

…..are therefore given massive advantages over The United States, and everyone else? Prior to the Plague floating in from China, our Economy was blowing everybody away, the best of any country, EVER. We will be there again, and soon!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2020 12:58 pm

5/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Doing REALLY well, medically, on solving the CoronaVirus situation (Plague!). It will happen!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 17, 2020 4:01 am

5/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The number of Coronavirus cases is strongly trending downward throughout the United States, with few exceptions. Very good news, indeed!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 17, 2020 12:56 pm

5/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Behind every COVID-19 death is a family and a community that will never be the same.

Behind every unemployment claim is a life thrown into uncertainty — a person wondering how they’ll make ends meet.

There is a real human toll to this crisis. We cannot forget that.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 17, 2020 11:30 am

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world… That is why it is my duty, as President of the United States, to inform you that, if the World Health Organization does not commute to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Andrew Restuccia, Gordon Lubold and Drew Hinshaw, “Trump Threatens to Permanently Cut Funding to World Health Organization, wsj.com, May 19, 2020

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HHS/LEAKS/MEDIA/WHISTLEBLOWER: “So the so-called HHS Whistleblower was against HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE. Then why did he make, and sign, an emergency use authorization? @NorahODonnell said, ‘He shared his concerns with a reporter.’ In other words, he LEAKED. A dumb @60Minutes hit job on a grandstanding Never Trumper!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, 2020 4:44 am

5/18/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Sleepy Joe is wrong again! RT @TeamTrump

It took TWO MONTHS for Joe Biden to admit that President @realDonaldTrump‘s decision to restrict travel from China was the right call. This was a colossal fail on Biden’s part. America can’t afford Biden’s China-centric approach to every issue.”

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, 2020 4:45 am

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is not responsible for the coronavirus. But he does bear full responsibility for failing to protect our nation from the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 18, 2020 6:00 pm

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’m taking it — hydroxychloroquine…  A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it.”

[Reporter: “Why, sir?”]

“Because I think it’s good. I’ve heard a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’ll tell you right — you know, I’m not going to get hurt by it. It’s been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other things. I take it. Frontline workers take it. A lot of doctors take it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Roundtable with Restaurant Executives and Industry Leaders,” whitehouse.gov, May 18, 2020

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Companies getting relief from taxpayers have an obligation to protect workers’ paychecks, and the Trump Administration has an obligation to hold their feet to the fire to ensure they do.

We need real relief paired with real oversight—not no-strings-attached corporate bailouts.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 18, 2020 2:24 pm

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of President Trump’s top advisors admitted that this administration ‘really let the country down’ on testing.

He’s right. It’s long past time for Trump to step up and implement a national testing strategy so we can begin safely reopening the economy.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 18, 2020 6:20 pm

5/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is not responsible for the coronavirus. But he does bear full responsibility for failing to protect our nation from the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 18, 2020 9:00 pm

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “The Republican Party has been very strong on healthcare, as you know, and that includes preexisting conditions. And we have done a terrific job on healthcare. Then we got hit by a plague like nobody has ever seen before, outside of maybe 1917. And I think we’ve done an incredible job in producing ventilators and producing testing.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Addresses Farmers and Food Supply Chain – May 19, 2020,” factba.se, May 19, 2020

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/GOP/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: ”I think we just want people in this country to be healthy. How does every country address it? We want our people to be healthy. We want them to be happy and we want them to have all of the benefits that you could have including great healthcare. The Republican party has been very strong on healthcare, as you know, and that includes preexisting conditions. And we have done a terrific job on healthcare. Then we got hit by a plague like nobody’s ever seen before, outside of maybe 1917. And I think we’ve done an incredible job in producing ventilators and producing testing. Right now, you probably saw the numbers were over 12 million tests. That’s three times more, four times more than any other country in the world. And we’re talking about countries that have done a good job. Nobody’s done testing like us. Plus we have the highest quality test. So very simply we want our people to be healthy.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Supporting Farmers & Ranchers May 19,” rev.com, May 19, 2020

5/19/2020

AGRICULTURE/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[M]y administration is launching a sweeping new initiative: the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. Through this effort, we are providing $19 billion to support our nation’s agricultural producers, maintain the health of our critical food supply chains, and provide food assistance to American families. Nineteen billion dollars… I’ll tell you, you can go back to Abraham Lincoln and there’s no President that’s treated the farmers like Trump…

As part of this program, today we’re announcing 16-billion-dollar direct payments to farmers and ranchers. So $16 billion is going directly to the farmers and ranchers, and it’s authorized by the CARES Act and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. We fought hard for this. These payments will compensate farmers for losses related to the global pandemic, caused by China.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Supporting our Nation’s Farmers, Ranchers, and Food Supply Chain,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020

 

5/19/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But once the virus came in — once the plague, as I call it, came in, I said, ‘How did they let that happen? How did they let that happen?’ And how come it didn’t go into other sections of China? Why did they block it from leaving Wuhan but they didn’t block it from going to the rest of the world, including the United States? Why is that? Beijing doesn’t have it; other places don’t have it. So why is it that it was blocked very effectively from leaving that area and going into China, but it went out to the rest of the world, including the United States? And why didn’t they let us go in and help them fix it? So I’m very disappointed in China.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “The FDA has said hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of a hospital setting or outside of a research study.”] “No, that’s not what I was told. No… There was a false study done where they gave it to very sick people — extremely sick people, people that were ready to die. It was given by, obviously, not friends of the administration… So, immediately, when it came out, they gave a lot of false information, just so you understand. Great studies came out of Italy on hydroxy. You know what I’m talking about, right?…

It’s gotten a bad reputation only because I’m promoting it. So I’m obviously a very bad promoter. If anybody else were promoting it, they’d say, ‘This is the greatest thing ever.’”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [On President Trump taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus] “It’s like saying maybe if you inject Clorox into your blood it may cure you. C’mon, man! What is he doing? What in God’s name is he doing?… Look, this is absolutely irresponsible. There’s no serious medical personnel out there saying to use that drug. It’s counterproductive. It’s not going to help… It does much more harm than good. This is totally irresponsible.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by David Knowles, “Biden Blasts Trump for Taking Hydroxychloroquine: ‘C’mon Man!’,” news.yahoo.com, May 19, 2020

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “The Fake News knows this. Thanks Katie! RT @KatiePavlich

‘Survey from Jackson & Coker shows an overwhelming majority of doctors would prescribe hydroxychloroquine or another anti-malaria drug to a family member suffering from Wuhan coronavirus.’ “

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 19, 2020 6:24 pm

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The pandemic has shown once again the vital importance of economic independence and bringing supply chains back from China and other countries. I probably got elected — one of the primary reasons was that. ‘Make America Great Again,’ ‘America First’ — call it whatever you want. But we went way out of bounds; we build a car and we go to 12 countries to build a car. I want to build a car from one country: We make the parts.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020

5/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But we’ve learned a lot about the disease. We’ve learned about distancing — nobody ever heard of social distancing before. We’ve learned about the washing of hands. I used to wash my hands a lot, but I’ll tell you, right now I wash them more. We learned a lot. And we also learned how to put out the embers or the fires, whatever may come — we learned — without having to close down the whole country.

And we have big sections of our country that don’t have much of a problem. We have some sections that don’t have any problem at all. So we’re opening up our country, we’re doing really well, and most excitingly, we’re working on vaccines, therapeutics, and cures that are really moving along at a level that nobody would have thought possible.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020

5/20/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Some wacko in China just released a statement blaming everybody other than China for the Virus which has now killed hundreds of thousands of people. Please explain to this dope that it was the ‘incompetence of China’, and nothing else, that did this mass Worldwide killing!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 20, 2020 2:35 am

5/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But when you do 14 million tests, you’re going to find more cases… We’re finding a lot of people. By doing testing, you’re finding people. So we’re doing 14, Germany is doing 3, South Korea doing 3, and I think they’re number two and three. So we’re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, ‘You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.’ Well, if we didn’t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn’t have very many cases.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Governor Hutchinson of Arkansas and Governor Kelly of Kansas May 20,” whitehouse.gov, May 20, 2020

5/20/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Spokesman speaks stupidly on behalf of China, trying desperately to deflect the pain and carnage that their country spread throughout the world. Its disinformation and propaganda attack on the United States and Europe is a disgrace….

….It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 20, 2020 3:36 pm

5/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a result of the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis — made worse by President Trump’s failure to act — it is projected that one in six American households will experience food insecurity by the end of this year. Americans are lined up at food banks across the country.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Urges Donald Trump to Address Hunger Crisis,” medium.com, May 20, 2020

5/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “When we emerge from this crisis, we can’t just go back to the way things were before. We need to take this country to a place we’ve never been. Where we finally live up to our highest ideals and everyone gets a full share of the American dream.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 20, 2020 10:20 am

5/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MILITARY: “I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus….

….On Monday, the flags will be at half-staff in honor of the men and women in our Military who have made the Ultimate Sacrifice for our Nation.“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2020 12:41 pm

5/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A permanent lockdown [for coronavirus] is not a strategy for a healthy state or a healthy country. Our country wasn’t meant to be shut down. We did the right thing, but now it’s time to open it up. A never-ending lockdown would invite a public health calamity. To protect the health of our people, we must have a functioning economy. And as I said, and I’ll say it 100 times, we’re going to have an incredible year next year, right at the beginning. Even our fourth quarter is going to be very good. There’s a tremendous pent-up demand…

Americans who need and want to return to work should not be vilified; they should be supported. Unlike many politicians and journalists, for those who earn a living with their own two hands, working remotely is just not an option.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Ford Rawsonville Components Plant,” whitehouse.gov, May 21, 2020

5/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MICHIGAN: “The Wacky Do Nothing Attorney General of Michigan, Dana Nessel, is viciously threatening Ford Motor Company for the fact that I inspected a Ventilator plant without a mask. Not their fault, & I did put on a mask. No wonder many auto companies left Michigan, until I came along!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2020 5:14 pm

5/21/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was so early. I was earlier than anybody thought. I put a ban on people coming in from China. Everybody fought me on that. They didn’t want it. Nancy Pelosi, a month later, was dancing in the streets of San Francisco in Chinatown so that people wouldn’t believe what’s happening. And I don’t even blame that. But I was way early.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, May 21, 2020

5/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ve lost 36 million jobs, we have over 93,000 dead and the number’s climbing. And the way he’s [President Trump] walked away from the rest of the world… I just do not understand it…

[T]he CDC had set out and were prepared to issue some very detailed guidelines about how to reopen, under what circumstances. And the White House quashed that. So they put out a very watered-down version of what they in fact said should be the basis upon which we open— how we should reopen.”

-Joe Biden, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Joe Biden: Trump Put The Country In A Terrible Spot By Failing To Act – EXTENDED INTERVIEW,” YouTube.com, May 22, 2020

5/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: “The global pandemic has proven once and for all that to be a strong nation, America must be a manufacturing nation. We’re bringing it back. Six hundred thousand jobs. The previous administration said, ‘Manufacturing, we’re not doing that. It’s gone from this country.’ They were wrong. Six hundred thousand jobs — until we had to turn it off. And now we’re going to turn it back on like never before. You’ll see numbers that you didn’t even see the last time; we’re going to rebuild it quickly. It’s going to happen very quickly.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Ford Rawsonville Components Plant,” whitehouse.gov, May 21, 2020

5/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today I’m identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogue and mosques as essential places that provide essential services. Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It’s not right. So I’m correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now. If there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me, but they’re not going to be successful in that call.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript May 22: Says Places of Worship Must Open Immediately,” rev.com, May 22, 2020

5/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN: “In the Paycheck Protection Program, what’s happening? I see we have American Airlines Delta Airlines, etc., all up there. I got it. But what about those stores along Main Street in those small cities and towns? There’s no reason why they can’t do a little of both. The biggest corporate bailout in American history is asking next to nothing of corporate America. And besides that, the President has gone out and fired all the Inspectors General.”

-Joe Biden, “CNBC Transcript: Former Vice President Joe Biden Speaks with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Today,” cnbc.com, May 22, 2020

5/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN: “I am focused on keeping people employed. Keeping them on a payroll. So that when we get to actually recovery, we’re now just talking about a stimulus to keep things from getting worse, and the idea of putting people back to work is going to occur when we begin to really invest in America.”

-Joe Biden, “CNBC Transcript: Former Vice President Joe Biden Speaks with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Today,” cnbc.com, May 22, 2020

5/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN: “We have to move on making sure that ordinary people who are breaking their neck, people make hourly wages who are carrying the rest of us on their back in terms of this virus, that they are able to get the kind of medical help they need as it relates to this pandemic.”

-Joe Biden, “CNBC Transcript: Former Vice President Joe Biden Speaks with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Today,” cnbc.com, May 22, 2020

5/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have to continue to talk about the things that matter and the things that matter are, for example, right now there’s a study out of Columbia University and a disease control center up there. They pointed out that if he [President Trump] had listened to me and others and acted just one week earlier to deal with his virus, there’d be 36,000 fewer people dead. Dead. Dead. And you are wondering, what’s he doing? Come on, man. Get a life. Get a life.

This guy has been incredibly terrible and what we’ve had is, back in January, I said, I wrote an article back I think the 27th of January said this pandemics here. We should act. Every other country that was active around the time, it got the notice around at the time we did, they have considerably fewer deaths as a percent of the population… I tell ya, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden ‘You Ain’t Black’ Interview Transcript on Radio Show with Charlamagne tha God,” rev.com, May 22, 2020

5/22/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “It came out of China, whether we like it or not, it came out of China. It could have been stopped. It came all over the world, but it didn’t really go to China. They stopped their planes going into China, but they didn’t stop their planes and their traffic going into the rest of the world, including the United States and Europe, and Europe is decimated.

And you look at what happened all over the world, 186 countries. So now it’s a very terrible thing and they could have stopped it if they wanted to, they could have stopped it. Either it was incompetent or they didn’t want to, both are not very acceptable, by the way.”

-Donald Trump in an interview recorded on May 22, 2020, “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” YouTube.com, May 26, 2020

5/23/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MICHIGAN: “All things that I have GOTTEN DONE, including Criminal Justice Reform! RT @WhiteHouse

President @realDonaldTrump visited Detroit yesterday, where he held a listening session with African-American community leaders. He joined them in discussing the Coronavirus response, permanent funding for HBCUs, prison reform, and much more.”

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2020 2:28 am

5/23/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MICHIGAN: “All things that I have GOTTEN DONE, including Criminal Justice Reform! RT @WhiteHouse

President @realDonaldTrump visited Detroit yesterday, where he held a listening session with African-American community leaders. He joined them in discussing the Coronavirus response, permanent funding for HBCUs, prison reform, and much more.”

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2020 2:28 am

5/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The hard truth is Donald Trump ignored the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies, downplayed the threat COVID-19 posed, and failed to take the action needed to combat the outbreak.

It’s one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in our history.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 23, 2020 2:40 pm

5/23/2020

HOLIDAY/MUSLIMS/OFFICIAL STATEMENT: “On Eid al-Fitr, the First Lady and I send our warmest greetings to Muslims in the United States and around the world as they celebrate.

Known as the ‘Festival of Breaking the Fast,’ Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan—a month filled with fasting, prayer, reflection, and other traditional observances. Over the past weeks and months, as we have fought the coronavirus, we have relied on our faith, family, and friends to help guide us through these unprecedented times. As Muslims observe the day of Eid al-Fitr, we hope they find both comfort and strength in the healing powers of prayer and devotion.

Now more than ever we are reminded of the reassuring peace, uplifting love, and heartening fellowship that religion brings into our lives. We send our best wishes for a blessed and joyous Eid al-Fitr.”

-Donald Trump, “Presidential Message on Eid al-Fitr, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, May 23, 2020

5/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots. It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history. People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and ‘force’ people to sign. Also, forge names. Some absentee OK, when necessary. Trying to use Covid for this Scam!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2020 4:08 am

5/24/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple! RT @realDonaldTrump

The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots. It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history. People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and ‘force’ people to sign. Also, forge names. Some absentee OK, when necessary. Trying to use Covid for this Scam!”

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2020 2:38 pm

5/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I give, and have given from the beginning, my entire yearly salary, $400,000 to $450,000, back to our government. Last check to HHS Covid relief. My great honor!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2020 3:57 pm

5/25/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Sleepy Joe Biden (mostly his reps.) went crazy when I banned, in late January, people coming in from China. He called me ‘xenophobic’ & then went equally ‘nuts’ when we let in 44,000 people – until he was told they were American citizens coming home. He later apologized!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2020 10:00 am

5/25/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Great reviews on our handling of Covid 19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. Ventilators, Testing, Medical Supply Distribution, we made a lot of Governors look very good – And got no credit for so doing. Most importantly, we helped a lot of great people!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2020 10:16 am

5/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NATIONAL GUARD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In recent months, our nation and the world have been engaged in a new form of battle against an invisible enemy. Once more, the men and women of the United States military have answered the call to duty and raced into danger. Tens of thousands of service members and National Guardsmen are on the frontlines of our war against this terrible virus — caring for patients, delivering critical supplies, and working night and day to safeguard our citizens.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at a Memorial Day Ceremony | Baltimore, MD,” whitehouse.gov, May 25, 2020

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “Stock Market up BIG, DOW crosses 25,000. S&P 500 over 3000. States should open up ASAP. The Transition to Greatness has started, ahead of schedule. There will be ups and downs, but next year will be one of the best ever!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 3:45 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “We made most Governors look very good, even great, by getting them the Ventilators, unlimited Testing, and supplies, all of which they should have had in their own stockpiles. So they look great, and I just keep rolling along, doing great things and getting Fake Lamestream News!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 5:01 am

5/26/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NANCY PELOSI: “For all of the political hacks out there, if I hadn’t done my job well, & early, we would have lost 1 1/2 to 2 Million People, as opposed to the 100,000 plus that looks like will be the number. That’s 15 to 20 times more than we will lose. I shut down entry from China very early!

….One person lost to this invisible virus is too much, it should have been stopped at its source, China, but I acted very quickly, and made the right decisions. Many of the current political complainers thought, at the time, that I was moving far to fast, like Crazy Nancy!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 5:18 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RELIGION/SENIORS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re safely reopening our country while aggressively protecting the vulnerable, especially our seniors. We’re telling our seniors to stay back a little bit. Stay back. Let this thing pass…

We’re using every tool at our disposal to protect our nursing homes from outbreaks. You saw the disaster of how badly some of the governors handled nursing homes. It’s a disgrace what they’ve done…

We need our churches and our synagogues and our mosques… We want them open, and we want them open as soon as possible…

And if I have to, I will override any governor that wants to play games. If they want to play games, that’s okay, but we will win. And we have many different ways where I can override them.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Protecting Seniors with Diabetes,” whitehouse.gov, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Joe Biden hired a senior staffer to work on voter protection issues, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump again blasted states’ efforts to expand voting by mail in light of the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Voting rights activists have filed dozens of lawsuits around the country to increase universal vote-by-mail and other ballot access measures, which Democrats say are needed to reduce long lines at polling sites that could increase the spread of COVID-19.

But Republican Party officials argue election fraud would increase if more voters are not required to appear in person to cast a ballot.”

-Michael Martina, “Biden hires voting rights director as absentee ballot battle heats up,” reuters.com, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And, and I watched, I watched the President yesterday, wearing no mask, you know, and, and so I’m making fun of the fact I wore a mask. The truth of the matter is that I think you’re supposed to lead by example…

And so I think it’s important that look 100,000 deaths, 100,000 deaths, at least 35,000 to 50,000 were avoidable. But for lack of attention and ego I think and just…

He’s a fool, an absolute fool to talk that way. I mean, every leading doc in the world is saying we should wear a mask when you’re in a crowd. And especially when you know you’re going to be in a position where you’re going to inadvertently get closer than 12 feet to somebody.”

-Joe Biden, “The Situation Room,” cnn.com, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t how you’re separate if you’re dead, you have no economic well, being your family has no economic romaine. So first of all, I’d listen to the scientist. I tell the truth. Tell the truth.

There are ways to reopen certain areas and rationally, with distancing, wearing masks, making sure that you don’t congregate with too many people in one spot, making sure you’re in a situation where you don’t spread, you, in fact, inhibit the prospect of a spreading of this disease. This is ubiquitous disease.

And the President doesn’t seem to me to be prepared, we should be testing and tracing, before we can fully open. We should be in a position where we’re able to make sure that people have all the protective gear that are needed, the first responders don’t have — they still don’t have all that.”

-Joe Biden, “The Situation Room,” cnn.com, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are months into this crisis, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a comprehensive plan when it comes to COVID-19 or the economy. It’s unacceptable. I released a detailed plan laying out what I would do months ago, and have built on it since.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 10:30 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “1 in 4 U.S. workers has filed for unemployment benefits in the last 10 weeks. It’s a crisis unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetime — and the Trump Administration is failing to do enough to help.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 5:28 pm

5/27/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The Radical Left Lamestream Media, together with their partner, the Do Nothing Democrats, are trying to spread a new narrative that President Trump was slow in reacting to Covid 19. Wrong, I was very fast, even doing the Ban on China long before anybody thought necessary!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 3:19 am

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The tally of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. has surpassed 100,000.

Just over four months after the government confirmed the first known case, more than 100,000 people who had the coronavirus have died in the United States.”

-“Four Months After First Case, U.S. Death Toll Passes 100,000,” nytimes.com, May 27, 2020

5/27/2020

PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason.

It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person.

President @realDonaldTrump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud.

This is a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp.”

-Kayleigh McEnany, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 4:28 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re in the middle of a global pandemic — and not only is Donald Trump preventing people from getting the health insurance they need, but he’s also actively trying to terminate the insurance millions already have.

It’s morally reprehensible.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 1:00 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the last few months, countless Asian Americans have been threatened, attacked, and blamed for COVID-19. They’ve cruelly been made the scapegoat by the most powerful man on the planet, President Trump. It has to end.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 3:38 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they’re forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus.

To those hurting, I’m so sorry for your loss. The nation grieves with you.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 5:30 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/RACISM: “In the past several months, countless Asian Americans have been punched and kicked and threatened, told that they’ll be sorry if they don’t leave this country — their country. They’ve been blamed for COVID-19: yelled at by strangers in parking lots, refused service at stores and needlessly, cruelly scapegoated by the most powerful man on the planet, President Donald Trump, who has racialized the pandemic and stoked xenophobia every time he’s uttered the term ‘Chinese virus.'”

-Joe Biden and Tammy Duckworth, “Joe Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth Trump’s encouragement of racism against Asian Americans is an affront to all Americans,” nbcnews.com, May 27, 2020

5/27/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “I wear it [a mask] for the reason that I believe it is effective [against coronavirus]. It’s not 100% effective, I mean it’s sort of respect for another person and have that other person respect you. You wear a mask, they wear a mask, you protect each other.

I do it when I’m in public for the reasons that, A, I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that’s the kind of thing you should be doing.”

-Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci: I wear a mask because it’s effective,” cnn.com, May 27, 2020

5/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. To all of the families & friends of those who have passed, I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy & love for everything that these great people stood for & represent. God be with you!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 3:37 am

5/28/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “All over the World the CoronaVirus, a very bad ‘gift’ from China, marches on. Not good!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 4:34 am

5/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NATIONAL GUARD: “The men and women of the National Guard have been doing a great job fighting the CoronaVirus. This week, I will extend their Title 32 orders through mid-August, so they can continue to help States succeed in their response and recovery efforts.“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 6:20 am

5/28/2020

BRAZIL/BORDER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is having a very, very hard time, as you know, with COVID, especially along the border… with Tijuana and various places along the border. And fortunately, we have brand-new wall along there, and the wall is saving us… Sadly, the area along our border is the highest — their highest percentage of cases and problems. And we are not letting people into our country…

Brazil now — we have the ban on. The ban has been put on, and it’s a very strong ban.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence During Briefing on the 2020 Hurricane Season,” whitehouse.gov, May 28, 2020

5/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we learned that another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment last week, bringing the total number of new claims since this crisis began to more than 40 million. It’s just the latest evidence of Donald Trump’s utter failure of leadership.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 5:00 pm

5/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The best strategy for public health is to aggressively protect the most vulnerable while allowing younger and healthier Americans to work safely… To maintain the health and safety of our society, we must also maintain the health of our economy. There’s a reason why our nation’s life expectancy is closely correlated with economic development. A never-ending shutdown would increase, not reduce, the total loss of life in the United States, while failing to focus resources on the most vulnerable.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion with Industry Executives on Reopening,” whitehouse.gov, May 30, 2020

5/29/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “I think through this COVID crisis and the mishandling by the president in this, the phenomenal negative impact on the black community, how it has increased three times as many people have gotten COVID-19, the disease, the virus…

And so, I think that this is sort of, the band-aid’s been ripped off. We have to deal with this. This is an opportunity to take something horrible that’s happened and remind ourselves who we are and who we say we are. And the vast majority of the American people are decent, honorable and they want to change. Just as the majority of the police officers are not bad cops. But you have to deal with this systemic racism that continues to exist in this country.

And it’s overwhelmingly in everybody’s interest that it be done. No matter what your background. No matter what your circumstance.”

-Joe Biden, “The Situation Room,” cnn.com, May 29, 2020

5/29/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “China’s cover-up of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world, instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100,000 American lives and over a million lives worldwide.

Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the World Health Organization and pressured the World Health Organization to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered by Chinese authorities…

The world needs answers from China on the virus. We must have transparency. Why is it that China shut off infected people from Wuhan to all other parts of China? It went nowhere else. It didn’t go to Beijing; it went nowhere else. But allowed them to freely travel throughout the world, including Europe and the United States.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Actions Against China,” whitehouse.gov, May 30, 2020

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NASA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As you know, this spring, our nation has endured the pain and hardship of a global pandemic. As we usher in a new era of manned spacecraft, we are reminded that America is always in the process of transcending great challenges. Our Nation is blessed with limitless reserves of talent, tenacity, and resolve. The same spirit of American determination that sends our people into space, will conquer this disease on Earth. It should have never happened.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript at Kennedy Space Center After SpaceX NASA Launch,” rev.com, May 30, 2020

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “Trump’s Tantrum Diplomacy is eroding U.S. credibility on the international stage. Withdrawing from @WHO during a global pandemic is a recipe for disaster and increases the cost of the American response. We must instead rally the world to confront COVID-19.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 30, 2020 7:30 pm

5/30/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China’s pattern of misconduct is well known. For decades, they have ripped off the United States like no one has ever done before. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year were lost dealing with China, especially over the years during the prior administration. China raided our factories, offshored our jobs, gutted our industries, stole our intellectual property, and violated their commitments under the World Trade Organization…

The world is now suffering as a result of the malfeasance of the Chinese government. China’s cover-up of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world, instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100,000 American lives and over a million lives worldwide…

The death and destruction caused by this is incalculable. We must have answers not only for us but for the rest of the world.

This pandemic has underscored the crucial importance of building up America’s economic independence, reshoring our critical supply chains and protecting America’s scientific and technological advances.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Actions Against China,” whitehouse.gov, May 30, 2020

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “Trump’s Tantrum Diplomacy is eroding U.S. credibility on the international stage. Withdrawing from @WHO during a global pandemic is a recipe for disaster and increases the cost of the American response. We must instead rally the world to confront COVID-19.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 30, 2020 7:30 pm

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “These last few days have laid bare that we are a nation furious at injustice. Every person of conscience can understand the rawness of the trauma people of color experience in this country, from the daily indignities to the extreme violence, like the horrific killing of George Floyd…

I know that there are people all across this country who are suffering tonight. Suffering the loss of a loved one to intolerable circumstances, like the Floyd family, or to the virus that is still gripping our nation. Suffering economic hardships, whether due to COVID-19 or entrenched inequalities in our system…

We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us.”

-Joe Biden, “We are a nation furious at injustice.,” medium.com, May 30, 2020

6/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “Vaccines are coming along really well. Likewise therapeutics. Moving faster than anticipated. Good news ahead (in many ways)!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2020 4:32 am

6/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NEW YORK/PROTESTS: “NYC, CALL UP THE NATIONAL GUARD. The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart. Act fast! Don’t make the same horrible and deadly mistake you made with the Nursing Homes!!!“

 

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2020 5:10 am

6/2/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/GOP: “Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love. Now, @NC_Governor Roy Cooper and his representatives refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena – Spend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and…

…then tell them they will not be able to gain entry. Governor Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised. Would have showcased beautiful North Carolina to the World, and brought in hundreds of…
…millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of @NC_Governor, we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.”
–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2020 3:06 pm

6/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[T]he fake news makes everything look bad, no matter what you do. We did a great job on ventilators. We’re giving them now to countries all over the world, we’re making them. When I started, we had practically none. The cupboards were bare. The Obama administration left us practically nothing. You don’t hear those stories. They don’t write about that.

We tested number 16 million yesterday, much more than anybody else. You don’t hear that we’ve done well in testing. They always say, “Well, why not more?” and yet Germany is at 3 million. We’re 16 million. We have incredible testing now. We’ve done a great job, but we don’t get credit for it, but hopefully, the people understand.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Radio Interview Transcript: Admits Going to Bunker During Protests, But Was for an ‘Inspection’,” rev.com, June 3, 2020:

6/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s failures have been on full display this week. But his failures extend far beyond the last few days — Trump’s slow response to Coronavirus made the crisis worse, and he has spent the last three years favoring the super wealthy and corporations over working families and communities of color.

Trump has failed to take seriously not just the scale of this problem, but also who is most impacted. His corrupt recovery is allowing minority business owners to get shut out of COVID-19 recovery funds. We cannot allow this crisis to disempower or inflict further economic pain on Black and Brown people in our society.”

-Joe Bidem, “Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on the Latest Unemployment Numbers,” medium.com, June 4, 2020

6/4/2020

COVID-19/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “The 2019 novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing outbreaks of the disease COVID-19, has significantly disrupted the lives of Americans…

Agencies, including executive departments, should take all appropriate steps to use their lawful emergency authorities and other authorities to respond to the national emergency and to facilitate the Nation’s economic recovery.”

-Donald Trump, “EO on Accelerating the Nation’s Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Emergency by Expediting Infrastructure Investments and Other Activities,” whitehouse.gov, June 4, 2020

[Note: Read the full Executive Order signed by Donald Trump.]

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All the states are being opened, they’re making a lot of money. That’s why we had the good numbers today. You have a governor [in the state of Maine] that doesn’t know what she’s doing, and she’s like a dictator, you know?… When is she opening the state, if ever?… And you don’t have a very big problem up here. So why is she doing this?… No, no, how does she do a thing like this? She’s going to destroy your state. All right, look, I’m not a fan.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Roundtable On Supporting America’s Commercial Fishermen,” whitehouse.gov, June 5, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vaccines, by the way, I had a meeting yesterday on vaccines. We’re doing incredibly well with that. I think you’re going to have some very positive surprises. And therapeutics, likewise, we’re doing extremely well. Cures, we’re doing well. I think those two words really blend in with each other, but tremendous progress is being made on vaccines…

I hope that the lockdown — governors, I don’t know why they continue to lock down, because if you look at Georgia, if you look at Florida, if you look at South Carolina, if you look at so many different places that have opened up — I don’t want to name all of them, but the ones that are most energetic about opening, they are doing tremendous business. And that — this is what these [increased job] numbers are all about…

And, by the way, when you do more testing, you have more cases. We have more cases than anybody because we do more testing than anybody. It’s pretty simple.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the Jobs Numbers Report,” whitehouse.gov, June 8, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SENIORS: “We understand this disease [COVID-19] now. We didn’t understand it. Nobody has ever seen it before. It’s very tough, very contagious, very mean to certain people. We’ve learned a lot. We didn’t know. Nobody knew anything about it. But we learned a lot…

We knew it was highly contagious because it spread like fire. But we didn’t know that it hit certain groups of people. That helps us so much in testing and other things. So we’re going to protect our elderly. We’re going to protect, especially, our elderly with problems, whether it’s heart or diabetes or any problem. It’s like a magnet. I mean, you’re elderly and you have diabetes or you have a bad heart, it’s — it’s like a magnet. They say if you’re — if you’re heavy. So I say, ‘Thank goodness I’m in perfect shape. Thank goodness.’ But if you’re — if you’re heavy, it’s not good. It’s a — it’s a brutal, brutal thing.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the Jobs Numbers Report,” whitehouse.gov, June 8, 2020

6/5/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remember this: When you have more tests, you have more cases…

[W]e had the greatest economy in the history of our country… African American, Hispanic American, Asian American — the greatest employment and unemployment numbers we’ve ever had… But as the global pandemic has shown, once and for all, the United States must produce essential equipment, supplies, pharmaceuticals, and technologies for ourselves. And we cannot rely on China and all of these other countries that, in bad times, take advantage of us and rip us off. We don’t do that anymore. We’re moving things back into our country.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Puritan Medical Products,” whitehouse.gov, June 5, 2020