President Donald Trump was ridiculed and scorned in equal measures on Thursday over this tweet about testing for the coronavirus:
Trump’s repeated falsehood that the United States is only seeing a spike in new infections because more testing is being carried out was met with anger.
Met with mirth was the president’s claim that he was trying to set the record straight “for the 1/100th time.”
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