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Asked about Georgia opening tattoo parlors, nail salons and other businesses where people have to be close, Trump said, "Are they doing testing before they go in? We have to find that out." He said he's going to be asking Kemp. (No, nail salons aren't doing coronavirus testing.) — PolitiTweet.org

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"Are you ready?" remains Trump's sign that he is about to offer some audaciously dishonest spin about something. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump does his usual campaign riff against spending US money in foreign countries. He says of the foreign countries: "They don't appreciate it, OK? They don't appreciate it." — PolitiTweet.org

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Some recent polling: Pew: 66% concerned about reopening too fast, 32% concerned about too slow NBC/WSJ: 58% concerned too fast, 32% too slow Yahoo/YouGov: 71% concerned too fast, 29% too slow — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "Nobody ever heard of a thing like this...distancing, what does that mean...washing your hands every 15 minutes, what does that mean." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "I'm going to make our country bigger and better and stronger. And we have to get started." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "I've watched some of the protests -- not in great detail," and they're "separated...a lot of space in between." Some groups have been spread out, some very much have not. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KannoYoungs: "It's being written now as we speak," President Trump said about an executive order that will halt the issuing of green ca… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Yamiche: President Trump on the coronavirus possibly having a second wave after re-openings: "I really believe we will be able to put o… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump touts the border wall, repeats his usual inaccurate claim that 27,000 Mexican soldiers are "on our border." It's been about 27,000 total, but about 12,000 have been on Mexico's southern border. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump again invokes the horrors of "1917" in talking about the pandemic deaths of 1918 and 1919. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "It's gonna be gone at some point. It's gonna be GONE-gone." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about concerns re Georgia opening up establishments, and how to protect people in nearby states like South Carolina, Trump says Kemp is a "very capable man" and "we're going to find out." (?) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is again touting how good the economy used to be. He's changed his usual present-tense rally boasts into the past tense. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says there are some good reports about hydroxychloroquine, but he acknowledges that "perhaps" there is "not a good report." https://t.co/Y7UwucWoJW — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "Testing is good in some cases, and in some cases it's not." He says some governors don't want to go "all out," think they can do it differently. (Again, experts generally emphasize that testing is critical.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Kim Jong Un: "I wish him very -- good luck, good luck." He says "nobody's confirmed" the reports about him being in dire health. — PolitiTweet.org

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This has been Hahn's stance from the beginning, FYI - we need clinical trials before we make a determination. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about the VA data that did not find hydroxychloroquine helpful, FDA chief Dr. Stephen Hahn says the study is small, retrospective and not definitive. He still advises doctors to consider this data. Says we need randomized clinical trials to determine safety and efficacy. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rabrowne75: President Trump: "I've asked @NYGovCuomo if we could bring the Comfort back to its base in Virginia so that we could have i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HeidiNBC: Birx: Metro areas are improving, including Chicago and Boston, which were of recent concern. *D.C. metro an exception* Als… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says people are getting "very anxious" and "want to make money" and "take care of their families." (Of course everyone does. But also worth noting that polls keep showing more people concerned about reopening too fast than about keeping restrictions too long.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "I see light at the end of the tunnel. I actually see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBCKatie: Trump says they will examine additional measures to protect U.S. workers. "We want to protect our U.S. workers, and as we mov… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBCKatie: Trump says the pause is for 60 days and will be re-evaluated "based on economic conditions," at the time. Trump says this onl… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump touts success on the provision of ventilators, says the media doesn't want to cover ventilators anymore because it's a good news story. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GeoffRBennett: NEWS: Trump says the immigration executive order, once it takes effect, will suspend immigration for 60 days. He says it… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @arappeport: Mnuchin on PPP: "We would expect this is the last tranche." Adds, they could reconsider it later. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's what Harvard told the Boston Herald about the money it got (which the Herald explained is from a different part of the relief bill, not the PPP). https://t.co/3yV3uU64wO https://t.co/YXboYbO47q — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he's going to ask big companies to give back PPP loans they got. He singles out Harvard University and its big endowment. — PolitiTweet.org