David Axelrod

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

This reflects the limits of @realDonaldTrump’s reality TV approach to grim reality. You can’t spin it. You can’t hoist phony victory banners. More people are suffering. More people are dying. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Context on @POTUS’s emphasis on testing at today’s rally/presser. The CDC/Administration fell down on testing in early stages, which has contributed to the morass we’re in. This is clean up. To extent that testing becomes easier and more pervasive, it’s good news, albeit late. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Take a look at where @realDonaldTrump ratings turned from negative to positive on his handling of COVID-19. Almost precisely the moment he shifted from denial to war rhetoric and turned the briefings podium into a hit reality show. https://t.co/x2K1YP8i08 — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Going to take occasional breaks from COVID-19 w/conversations from the #AxeFiles vault. Here’s one recorded in January w/@gmbutts, longtime top adviser to Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau. Super interesting guy; amazing story. https://t.co/7DUH18yWZ2 https://t.co/9zcyMjg2A7 — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @ddale8: .@yamiche accurately recites Trump's claim on Hannity that he doesn't believe New York needs all the ventilators Cuomo said the… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

I guess the @VP is there to behave like a president is supposed to in situations like this. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Modified aspirational? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

But at least for today, the @POTUS is taking the counsel of the health care professionals, for which we should be grateful. Let’s see what tomorrow brings. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

What the @POTUS is discovering is that you can’t spin a pandemic. People are sick. People are dying. The media is covering the grim reality of the pandemic and the government’s response, which was laggard. This enrages him. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

He knows that he is liable for the six weeks he flagrantly dismissed the severity of the threat, during which we lost valuable time in subduing the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The dramatic projections of how many Americans could die without aggressive mitigation tactics are not new. They’ve been discussed for weeks. How can it be that he @POTUS just heard them, as he just suggested? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Here is the bottom line. @realDonaldTrump got out over skis when he suggested the Easter date. (See below) He got reined in by the unanimous objection of public health experts. https://t.co/NjjdiaEV4d — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

.@Yamiche is a fine reporter with extraordinary restraint. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

“Even the media has been fairer,” the @POTUS just said from the Rose Garden. Here’s what his evil twin @realDonaldTrump tweeted five hours ago. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Good that he has yielded to the advice of the public health professionals by pushing his social distancing relaxation date to April 30th. Did he speak to them BEFORE he announced Easter as the date he would pull out? Every public health professional knew that wasn’t realistic. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

.@POTUS also apparently accuses NYC medical personnel of withholding masks. What the hell is he talking about? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Headline here is @POTUS predictably walks back his Easter deadline. Now talks about June as the period in which life may begin to return to normal. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

There goes the Easter Parade! — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

He is startled that 151 countries are involved. It’s a GLOBAL PANDEMIC!! — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

I will say this, as I watch this orgy of self-congratulation from the @POTUS “No one has ever seen anything like this.” — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The @POTUS generously invites anyone who wants to toss him a bouquet to the mic. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

This is not a briefing. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

“We just were meeting in a conference room. A very nice conference, actually, called the Cabinet Room.” 🙄 — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

As the numbers of cases and casualties continue to climb, the @POTUS is tweeting about another set of numbers: His TV ratings. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The COVID-19 siege is, in part, a function of the failure to anticipate it in a timely way and plan accordingly. We know there’s election in Nov. We still may be battling the virus. As @AlHuntDC writes here, the planning should begin NOW. https://t.co/zvwC82rE0m @BrennanCenter — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

A killer virus of another kind. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

A killer virus of another kind. https://t.co/pBiuNxgU4I — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @peterbakernyt: Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built on the site where Jesus was said to be buried and resurrected, is closed due to the… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Shortly before he retired, Mr. Coburn said of Mr. Obama: “I think he’s a neat man. You don’t have to be the same to be friends. Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.” Amen to that! RIP, Senator Coburn. https://t.co/bLLtvhTytm — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Everything in @realDonaldTrump’s world has to be read upside down. His beef is not with fake news. It’s with facts he finds inconvenient, like when he testily chided the media for six weeks for suggesting that COVID-19 represented a broad threat—an assertion he deemed a “hoax.” — PolitiTweet.org