welcome to unhingery: Trump says “Staying at home leads to death.”

Trump says it's true that opening up could lead to death, but: “Staying at home leads to death also. And it's very traumatic for this country. Staying at home, if you look at numbers, that leads to a different kind of death, perhaps, but it leads to death also.”— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 10, 2020

Trump rambles about ‘genius’ coronavirus during long-winded briefing: ‘The germ has gotten so brilliant’ https://t.co/ZUyzSSohly

Antibiotics kill bacteria. Viruses are not bacteria. They're viruses. Viruses are not smart because, as @sciam once wrote, they exist somewhere in the “gray area between living and nonliving.” https://t.co/wRKBWZk3BQ https://t.co/ZKzaQLhpMn

The look on the reporter's face is really something.

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President Trump says he has “absolute authority” to ease social distancing guidelines.

“I don't know that I have had a bigger decision,” he said. “Hopefully it's going to be the right decision.”

He points to his head & says he will be using metrics in his mind to re-open.

Trump closes with this: “We have to get back to work. We have to get our country open. But we could have lost 2 million people … so I'm very honored by our decisions, all of us … I have a big decision coming up. And I only hope to God that's it's the right decision.” pic.twitter.com/byldZVbEDq

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 10, 2020

Trump claims that doctors and elected officials say on CNN that they don't have enough materials because they know they won't get on TV unless they say it.

😳Trump’s face as @Acosta asks about his “happy talk” painting a rosy picture of medical supplies & #Coronavirus testing.

Trump denies problems, claims “we have everything we need,” governors are “very happy” w/ “incredible job.” Calls the question “insulting to a lot of people” pic.twitter.com/KWdlxazhpL

Thousands have died in nursing homes around the U.S. But the federal gov't isn't tracking them. He likes the numbers where they are. https://t.co/GlWZKIchfP

Trump was asked a question about if it's appropriate to cut funding to the World Health Organization during a pandemic. He responded by offering up this rant about trade. pic.twitter.com/iGqbeKKAV1

Trump's assertion that the US lost lots of cases at the WTO before him is contradicted by a report by his own White House: