Breaking

Trump tweets condolences for 100,000 dead from coronavirus amid morning tweetstorm - CNN
May 28, 2020 1 min, 29 secs
At one point, he retweeted a user who said the image of Biden wearing a black mask "endorses culture of silence, slavery, and social death."

Asked on Fox News about Trump's message to families of the victims, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany noted the President's tweet and suggested that "more than just a statement, the President took action on this."

"Last week, he lowered the flag to half-staff for several days in anticipation of this number coming up," she said, going on to say that Trump should get credit for his decisions throughout the pandemic.

Trump has regularly cited the death count during the course of the pandemic as a yardstick for his administration's success.

"If you look at other countries, what they've been through, and you look at the kind of numbers and compare them to ours -- which is a much larger country than most -- the numbers are pretty amazing," Trump said at a March press briefing, when he suggested that the death toll "looks like it could be over 50,000."

At a roundtable with industry executives on reopening the economy on April 29, Trump said, "if you think that we'd be at 65 or 70 or 60 or whatever the final number will be -- one is too many."

In recent weeks, as it became clear the US would lose well over 100,000 people to the virus, he suggested that actions taken by his administration -- most notably a travel ban from China -- saved up to 2 million American lives.

Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to take part in a coronavirus task force meeting, but the only scheduled public meeting for Trump is a briefing about the upcoming hurricane season.

Trump's public schedule indicates that the President wasn't scheduled to attend any task force meetings this week.

RECENT NEWS

SUBSCRIBE

Get monthly updates and free resources.

CONNECT WITH US

© Copyright 2024 365NEWSX - All RIGHTS RESERVED