When you get caught sayin somethin stupid, the last resort is always “i was just joking!”
@rebeccaballhaus
Trump asked a reporter in the Oval Office to take off her face mask so he could hear her question, per pool.
12:56 - 24 Apr 2020
When you get caught sayin somethin stupid, the last resort is always “i was just joking!”
@mkraju
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Yet moments later, Trump again floats disinfectant as treatment. “I do think the disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. Bill is going back to check that in the laboratory.”
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@mkraju
Trump takes almost 24 hours to say his comment was “very sarcastic” about using disinfectant as a treatment, even though his tone and demeanor were serious at the briefing. “I thought it was clear,” he tells reporters in the Oval
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@mkraju
Trump adds: “So I said, how do we do it inside the body or even outside the body with the hands - and disinfect, I think would work. .. Maybe there’s something there.”
13:36 - 24 Apr 2020
@peterbakernyt
Trump: "You know the way it was asked. I was looking at you."
Reporter: "No you weren't sir. I wasn't there yesterday."
14:21 - 24 Apr 2020
@NatashaBertrand
Stephen Miller told WH supporters in a private call this week that Trump’s new executive order curbing immigration will usher in broader long-term changes he has advocated for years, even though the 60-day measures were publicly characterized as a “pause” https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...af59ba-8631-11ea-9728-c74380d9d410_story.html …
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NEW: Members of President Trump’s coronavirus task force and aides in the West Wing were shocked Thursday when he suggested looking into the use of light and disinfectant to treat the deadly respiratory illness, according to administration officials. Trumps remarks on disinfectants left even close aides shocked
@NBCNews
As President Trump went off script, White House officials began texting one another to ask where he got that idea because they thought, as one adviser put it, “this was going to be bad.” Trumps remarks on disinfectants left even close aides shocked
@politico
President Trump said today that he would not approve any bailout for the U.S. Postal Service unless it dramatically increases its priceshttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-us-postal-service-coronavirus-bailout-206851 …