Four years ago today, President Trump considered imposing a quarantine on New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut but later retracted the idea. He also extended federal social-distancing guidelines due to COVID-19. Trump focused on TV ratings during press briefings despite PPE shortages and rising death tolls.
One million Americans would die. But Trump’s primary focus was on the TV ratings for his press conferences. We were watching because we were worried. But to Trump the pandemic was yet another opportunity to exploit a tragedy. https://t.co/S7oXfCLnza
7 years ago today: Trump's daughter to become federal employee 6 years ago: Debate over alleged pardon dangle 5 years ago: Trump attacks media, says "Russian hoax is finally dead," rally crowd chants "Lock them up" 4 years ago: Trump brags about ratings of COVID press briefings https://t.co/UxYNYFwAwo
Four years ago today, while Americans were dying without PPE and other life-saving supplies Trump: All you hear is, 'can I get some more?' There's something going on. I don't think it's hoarding, I think it's maybe something worse than hoarding https://t.co/uMCUihGzPd
four year ago today, Trump held one of his covid disaster-conferences and blamed nurses for PPE shortages https://t.co/A3s4pirmjD
He cared about the TV ratings for his press briefings as people were dying because he turned them into campaign speeches and took advantage of the fact that people who were out of work watching. It’s always only about him. We were not better off 4 years ago. https://t.co/FIyV4lqTxr
Four years ago today: Mr. Trump extends federal social-distancing guidelines to April 30. “We had an aspiration of Easter but when you hear these kind of numbers and you hear the potential travesty,” Mr. Trump said, “we don’t want to have a spike up.” https://t.co/3CRMtC7mah
Four years ago today, as Americans were dying and jobless, Trump tweeted about how high the ratings were for his disastrous press briefings, tweeting they were “roughly the viewership of the season finale of The Bachelor" https://t.co/KWEnR3zCtL
7 years ago today: Trump sought to block Yates from testifying on Russia 6 years: Trump lawyer mentioned pardons to Manafort/Flynn lawyers 5 years: Questions re: Barr letter as Mueller report known to be 300+ pages 4 years: Trump floats quarantine of NY, NJ, CT, then backs off https://t.co/mulw7d8J3Y
4 years ago today, President Trump mused about imposing a quarantine on the state of NY to own the libs (he was feuding with Andrew Cuomo at the time) https://t.co/GBSVrKzsLE