Trump Says US Press Treats Him Worse than Lincoln

"It's - I don't think it's ever been done, what we're doing tonight here". "I used to say 65,000", the president said, pointing to a total he promoted just a few days earlier.

"It's devastatingly worrisome to me personally, because if they go home and infect their grandmother or their grandfather who has a comorbid condition and they have a serious or an unfortunate outcome, they will feel guilty for the rest of our lives", Birx said.

"I've been talking about that for years", President Trump says.

Pressed for details about the program's operations and budget in her first press briefing on Friday, McEnany offered scant details but told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl to "rest assured we're on an accelerated pace to a vaccine at least for this phase 1 portion of clinical trial". "You see demonstrations all over the country and those are meaningful demonstrations", he said. Now we have to get it open. Opening up about his loss during the pandemic, the US President admitted to have lost three friends.

He said, "you're gonna have all those seats" at restaurants like before.

She urged Trump to "let go of those behaviors that are turning people away from you". This virus started in China, and it should've been stopped long before it spread rapidly across the globe.

As of Sunday, the disease has infected more than 1.1 million people in the U.S. and killed more than 67,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

"We're going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to a 100,000 people".

"We're seeing pretty consistently somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a week - there are not a lot of reasons to expect it's going to drop quickly", Reich said.

A cyclist in facemask rides past the Million Dollar Theater, closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, with words on the marqee calling for togetherness and positivity, on May 4, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. "They come at me with questions that are disgraceful".

Trump on Sunday night singled out Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, also a Democrat, for criticism even as he praised the federal co-ordination with most governors.

After more than a month of being cooped up at the White House, Trump returned from a weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for the virtual town hall hosted by Fox News Channel. I think some of that frustration is warranted.

Dr Fauci has previously said a vaccine will take up to 18 months to develop, while Professor Whitty said last month that the chances of having an effective vaccine or other treatment within the next year were "incredibly small".

He added that beyond its public health goal, wearing the mask carried important symbolic weight as well.

"It's really a statement about the American people, the way they have been willing to step forward, practice social distancing and wear masks in settings where they can't do that", he said.