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President Donald Trump over the last week has taken to crowing about the job his administration has done in battling the COVID-19 pandemic, even as more than 67,000 people have died in less than two months. “Our death totals, our numbers per million people, are really very, very strong,” Trump said during a news conference […]

According to a report from Axios, Donald Trump is reportedly angry with FBI Director Christopher Wray for staying silent on the recent revelations in the Michael Flynn case and would like to dump him. The report, from Jonathan Swan, notes the president is being restrained from another firing by close aides and Attorney General Bill […]

If there’s one thing Donald Trump does best it’s lie about the size of things. “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver pointed out that one of the most dangerous things the president is lying about right now is the size of the group of people that will be tested for the coronavirus. When asked this […]

This week, right-wing media personality Alex Jones revealed that he’s prepared to murder his neighbors and eat them if he needs to survive the coronavirus. During the opening of his Sunday episode of “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver suggested that he consider other solutions that are likely less criminal. What was among the most puzzling […]

CNN’s Jake Tapper did a special walking through the timeline of the COVID-19 crisis and the denial from President Donald Trump leading up to the middle of March. While the virus was spreading across the world, President Donald Trump believed that all of the warnings from his government were just more from the “deep state” […]

The Department of Homeland Security released a report saying that China intentionally delayed telling the World Health Organization about the coronavirus because they wanted to stockpile masks and ventilators. The report was first released to the Associated Press, but Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan noted that there was just “moderate confidence” in the claim. “We further […]

Vice President Mike Pence was ripped to shreds after a visit to the Mayo Clinic where he refused to wear a mask. The clinic tweeted that they told the Vice President’s team that it is a hospital rule that masks be worn. Still, Pence was mask free. The Mayo Clinic has now deleted this tweet. […]

One business owner lamented that tariffs are killing his business during the coronavirus crisis. Asking his question before the Fox News town hall on Sunday, a Baltimore, MD businessman said he’s paying as much as $60,000 in monthly additional costs for his operation. Trump replied by telling the man that he gave money to farmers. […]

Sitting in front of the legendary statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump ranted about how he is treated by the press, saying that he’s treated worse than Lincoln. The question he was responding to was about being more bipartisan. “They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln, I believe I […]

President Donald Trump tried to calm American’s fears of the coronavirus crisis facing off against actual people with questions and fears about life in COVID-America. Trump was asked by a Forida restaurant owner about meatpacking plants driving up costs at a time when restaurants desperate for customers. Trump blew off the question and rambled on […]

In perhaps the most callous example of disconnectedness, President Donald Trump told an Alabama woman desperate for help that everything will be fine. During the Fox News town hall Sunday, a woman from Alabama asked Trump what she should do because she’s lost her job, is behind on her bills and is close to being […]

President Donald Trump was singing his own praises last week, noting that only 60,000 deaths weren’t that bad and claiming that the numbers wouldn’t go much higher. “So, yeah, we’ve lost a lot of people,” Trump said during a press briefing in the Rose Garden April 27. “But if you look at what original projections […]

Long before the coronavirus crisis hit, top White House aide Stephen Miller was searching for ways to shut down the United States to immigrants using a disease as an excuse. According to the New York Times, in the early days of the administration, Miller tried to use obscure laws that were meant to protect the […]

President Donald Trump has worked harder at trying to defend himself against blame for his careless response to the coronavirus than he did to protect people at the beginning of the threat. In his Sunday Washington Post column, conservative columnist Max Boot recalled that the Spanish Flu of 1918 actually began in Kansas when soldiers […]

At the end of the rally to reopen in Arizona Sunday, the speaker urged the audience to join hands and touch each other while they sang “Amazing Grace.” Very few of the attendees were wearing masks and it didn’t appear anyone was wearing gloves. Another man decided to break social distancing and provide free hugs […]