Ink By The Gallon

I've covered six presidents, but I've never covered any White House briefing quite like the one tonight. Here's my take-->> https://t.co/He9R5QiuUY via @usatoday

— Susan Page (@SusanPage) April 14, 2020

CNN's Jim Acosta: "That is the biggest meltdown of a president of the United States that I've ever seen in my career. I don't think a reasonable person could watch what we just saw over the last hour and conclude that the president is in control."

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 13, 2020

The President falsely claimed today that the media ignored the coronavirus in January & February. We have receipts: https://t.co/qXilEE4q8R pic.twitter.com/WqEwyi8bFF

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) April 14, 2020

The video Trump aired during the coronavirus task force briefing is directly from the March 26 episode of Hannity pic.twitter.com/m3mvZFu0CT

— Media Matters (@mmfa) April 13, 2020

Oh, hell, let's get legal, too:

But see #SCOTUS’s decisions ruling against Presidents in such cases in:

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006);
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004);
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952);
Ex parte Endo (1944);
Ex parte Milligan (1866); and
Little v. Barreme (1804)

Among (many) others... https://t.co/oM9jeundqG

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) April 14, 2020

Trump says it’s his call when to reopen the country and that he can override decisions by governors on matters of public health.

That’s flatly wrong.

He promised to put out a paper on this. We’ll save him and Bill Barr the time. Here’s the paper: https://t.co/pQAyEPwOeS

— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) April 14, 2020

Now back to journamalism:

The problem is not that the president gets quoted out of context, as his advisers say. It’s that he gets quoted. https://t.co/VpQGwojF3H

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 14, 2020

And more fake news!

Trump says it’s his call when to reopen the country and that he can override decisions by governors on matters of public health.

That’s flatly wrong.

He promised to put out a paper on this. We’ll save him and Bill Barr the time. Here’s the paper: https://t.co/pQAyEPwOeS

— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) April 14, 2020

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

A former administration official once described the experience working at the White House as the president focused on dominance and power over others. This briefing was partly to pick a fight w press - but partly to dominate press. And Fauci. The tweet last night was too. https://t.co/VAQ9thg74W

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 14, 2020

And slowly the obvious becomes irrefutable.

The April 13 White House coronavirus task force briefing finally ended -- nearly 3 hours and 15 minutes after its scheduled start time.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2020

Yeah, nothing to see here....