Fact check: Trump’s campaign-style video touts coronavirus response, omits context | USA TODAY

President Trump played the video at a White House briefing, slamming what he sees as unfair media coverage of his administration's pandemic response.
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Pushing back on reporting that has questioned the scope of his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump played an unusual three-minute-plus video at the White House this week touting his efforts.

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  1. I think our governor of Michigan is doing a very good job it’s the people that are not following through what she is saying if the people would stand up and do what she wants done there would not be no problem our governor is doing a fantastic job for our beautiful state of Michigan

    1. and the people of the state of Michigan need to realize that there is no other state in the United States that has good drinking water all the way around it in our governor is doing a very good job at taking care of our Lakes

  2. Trump never takes responsibility for the harmful impacts of his actions and inaction. He is still trying to lie, blame, deny, deflect, bluster, scapegoat, obstruct, bully, insult, gaslight, and obfuscate his way out of this pandemic mess he’s created. All the while his allies, goons and lackeys flood the airwaves and social media with the same bs.

    1. He is going to get indicted by the Southern district of N.Y. on Jan 21, 2021 the day he leaves office.

    1. He need the votes bad. He called the virus a hoax because he listens to fox entertainment. He withheld medical supplies from certain states. He gave all our stored masks to china because he is such a nationalist and he sold alot of ventilators to europe. His trade wars with China started the economic collapse that left many small farmers unemployed. He wanted to cut social services during pandemic but was blocked by judges. He keeps wanting to open the country up knowing there’s no cure because his businesses lost billions. He found a loophole to the stimulus money and took 689 billion out of it. He might stall the checks because he wants to sign his name on them. He also wanted to sue a political add that clearly shows this lying monster was the one who caused the ECONOMY collapse and pandemic but hey i5s not fake news this draft dodging pos has always been known to bankrupt anything he touches. I dont care if the morons vote for.him they are the ones dying in red states the most and getting hit harder by faith based corporate idoits who dont care about them.

    2. @Nathan E And it’s just beginning to hot them. Then they’ll come to our states as soon as we relax our shelter at home status. Thus reinfecting our safer states!

  3. Wwaaaaaaahhhhh orange man mean to us….yall gonna have enough energy to throw tantrams for another four years?

    1. Do you have any reply to the ACTUAL SUBSTANCE of the content? Try to reply without using whataboutisms, denials, lies or strawman arguments. Thank you.

  4. I was watching China go into lockdown back in January an once I realized our government wasn’t stopping flights from China I took my kids out of school an the school told me were doing everything to keep the kids safe😂 no thanks a month later all the schools closed

    1. And when Trump stopped flights from China Jan. 31, Democrat politicians all over the country complained. Thank God we have President Trump or the crisis would have been much worse.

    2. @One Race Through Adam No, they didnt. Many Democrats also wanted the ban, it’s not all black and white.

    3. Same here, I took my daughter out in around the same time and was called a fear-monger for it. We live near an airport and I just didnt want to risk it.

  5. The Alberta government started ordering PPE equipment when the first repots were coming out of China in December. They are now sharing the extra PPE with other Provinces. We heard about it in BC in December as we tried to talk a family member and his wife from travelling during that time. So what I don’t understand is how come the President didn’t hear about this rapidly spreading virus in December? Or maybe he did?

    1. Remember, he only hears praises for what he thinks he is doing that he’s not doing! No praise…no glory. No actions…still he wants glory

    2. He did know. But this pandemic is proportionately killing off more voters California, New York, the poor, the ethic minorities; it distracts from his other evil deeds (eg cutting off food stamps to thousands) ; he gets to create a depression, which turns a population more fascist and right wing; the stock market makes record gains; he gets to see States fight each other over resources for further division and opportunities to lord over Governors; Democrats cannot campaign effectively and Trump gets to funnel billions of taxpayer money to corporations, banks and his billionnaire friends.

  6. Facts to the GOP? Whatever will get more votes to keep them in power. Provided they don’t kill off everyone they need to have vote for them to keep them there. But…since it’s mainly the sick and elderly that are dying…those are the ones who would vote Democrat, anyway. So it behooves the GOP to keep up the lies….

  7. Quote from his tweets when questioning him at his daily briefing which are really only election campaign rallies

  8. Don’t worry about that:”I am the present and future of this world, whoever wants to follow me will be with me in paradise” – China.

    1. No, dear. It is dems and rinos who have decades of corruption and money laundering with foreign countries. That is why Trump was elected to drain their slimy swamp and give America back to we the people..

    1. Any response to the actual SUBSTANCE of the video? Try replying below without using whataboutisms, denials, lies or strawman arguments. Thank you.

  9. Great job…. PLEASE keep producing fact checking content. This criminal and incompetent president’s daily lies must be exposed.

  10. Can’t you just try to be on America’s side USA Today? Maybe instead of criticize, think of some strategic ways for us to attempt to prosper during difficult times.

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