WH Holds Coronavirus Briefing | Talking Points Memo

President Trump and the White House coronavirus task force are scheduled to hold a briefing at 5 p.m. ET. Since announcing his decision to halt funds to the largely U.S.-funded World Health Organization last night, Trump is now facing backlash for making the move amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump will likely also address his urgency to reopen the economy.


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Fauci vs. Grouchy? Pass…

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Faucho: “Why, a four-year-old child could understand Trump! Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make heads or tails of this guy.”

(h/t Duck Soup)

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I’m just here for the stroke.

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I’m just here for the screaming.

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Come for the screaming…

Stay for the Adderall-induced psychotic episode with violent auditory hallucinations and self-soiling.

(The critics have weighed in: “You’ll laugh; you’ll cry; you’ll barf!”)

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You’ll pound your forehead on your keyboard!

I’ve chipped off the N and the E.

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Trump wants people to die in his quest for re-election.

Now, I cannot speak for Trumpists, but I do not share Trump’s desire for mass genocide.

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People tell me that’s why I should watch, but they won’t tell me which episode that happens. It’s kind of like having to watch the whole NASCAR season just to see the crash.

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Indiana’s Rep. Trey Hollingsworth has made it a choice between the lesser of two evils. You can probably guess which is the lesser of two evils.

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That’s about it, but we keep each other entertained in-between the crashes.

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Which are frequent.

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I am here for the off the rails responses and, of course, the shout-outs to all the corporations.
Saw a Twitter post that compared his reading of corporate names to Billy Joel’s " We Didn’t Start the Fire"

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It was much more monotone (in between the sniffs) - like he was reading the phone book.

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I’m here for the snark

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“The new phonebook’s here! The new phonebook’s here!”

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Betcha twenty bucks those monitors are for more A.V. B.S. about timelines and Trump never did one wrong thing and is a total genius of amateur epidemiology because he just had a feeling what to do, even when that was weeks and weeks of nothing.

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If only we had a PM Trudeau…

p.s. He’s looking quite dashing with his new beard. I love the touch of grey.

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I’m concerned for the F, the U, the C, and the K. They’re getting used beyond the rated capacity I’m sure.

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Easy there, girl…

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