On April 14 AEST, United States President Donald Trump held a press conference totalling two hours and 23 minutes

On April 21 AEST, he finished the day’s briefing with an eight and a half minute uninterrupted monologue covering Nancy Pelosi, the media and for five full minutes, he repeated how millions would have died from COVID-19 without his leadership.

Plus, sandwiched in between those conferences, held a week apart, Trump saida lotmore.

Some of it isn’t true. Some of it doesn’t make sense. Some more is just downright dangerous.

Let’s keep it simple, with a list of the most ridiculous things to come out of the mouth of Donald Trump in just the past seven days:

On April 14, Trump said the United States economy was the best it had ever been, which is incorrect. He then went on the say the US has the best of everything. But it doesn’t have TimTams, so that’s objectively false.

In the same press conference Trump claimed no expert told him to limit travel from China but he did it based on his own smarts.

Lots –lots– of people are asking for ventilators.

These four quotes, all said during the April 14 briefing (it was more than two hours long, remember, there’s a lot to cover) are all incorrect. And scary.

A very informative, very decisive way to end a press conference.

Trump tweeted these during a Twitter storm on April 18. The exclamations were met with swift disapproval from commentators and governors, who were already dealing with protests and dissent within their states about social distancing measures.

Washington governor Jay Inslee toldABC NewsTrump’s message was “dangerous”.

“I don’t know any other way to characterise it,” Inslee said, expressing disbelief at seeing the “president of the United States basically encourage insubordination” against laws “designed to protect people’s health”.

“It is dangerous because it can inspire people to ignore things that actually can save their lives,” he said.

On April 19, Trump told reporters (and tweeted) that the US was king of the ventilators and would use its supply to help other countries. He came after weeks of governors asking the federal government for help amid a shortage.

On April 19, Trump once again praised protesters protesting again government measures to keep them safe. And Trump is the head of the government.

Over the weekend, Trump retweeted a tweet from conservative writer Paul Sperry that suggested Muslims could get preferential treatment during Ramadan (April 23-May 23).

When asked about it, Trump replied with the above. He then clarified he didn’t believe Muslim religious leaders would break social distancing rules.

“I don’t know what happened with our country, but the Christian faith is treated much differently than it was, and I think it’s treated very unfairly,” he said.

Overall, not the worst thing we’ve ever heard him say about the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

At the end of the April 21 (AEST) press conference, Trump was asked about how his relationship with Democrats had changed for the better and after stating there was some bipartisanship then… well, then he attacked Pelosi.

Did you know Trump hates the ‘lamestream media’?

Trump said without his intervention, millions of people could’ve died. Instead, they’re looking at 50,000-60,000.

A video from theWashington Postfrom the press conference then showed Trump repeat the same assertion, that millions would’ve died, over and over again for more than five minutes.

And while curves are flattening around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. At least for Donald Trump, that means he can keep on talking for hours and hours… and hours.

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