Trump Touts Testing, Ventilators, Pushes to Reopen Country on Twitter

President Donald Trump (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

By    |   Monday, 18 May 2020 09:36 AM EDT ET

President Donald Trump called attention to a front page article in the Washington Post in a Monday morning tweet.

“Wow!” Trump tweeted. “The Front Page Washington Post Headline reads, 'A BOOST IN TESTS, BUT LACK OF TAKERS.' We have done a great job on Ventilators, Testing, and everything else.”

The article highlights a survey the newspaper conducted of governors’ offices and state health departments that found at least a dozen states where there are more tests than people waiting to be tested. 

He blames Obama for leaving "little" and praises the more than 11 million tests and counting that are “more than all countries in the world, combined.”

His tweet about testing comes on the heels of two tweets where he urges the country to reopen and then makes an all-caps reference to a “TRANSITION TO GREATNESS.”

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President Donald Trump called attention to a front page article in the Washington Post in a Monday morning tweet. "Wow!" Trump tweeted. "The Front Page Washington Post Headline reads, 'A BOOST IN TESTS, BUT LACK OF TAKERS.' We have done a great job on Ventilators,...
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