“You Should Be Saying Congratulations Instead Of Asking A Really Snarky Question”: Donald Trump Berates Reporters Challenging His Coronavirus Claims

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By Ted Johnson Monday’s daily White House briefing on the coronavirus was very much in tone with all of the others: Lots of upbeat, boastful remarks of how far the administration has come in fighting the pandemic — but also some disconcerting warnings that the worst is likely to come.

Most of the reporters at the press conference were spaced out in socially safe distances in the Rose Garden on the unseasonably warm day, and some of the journalists again proved to be Trump’s favorite foils, raining on the parade of good news he had to tell about the rising availability of coronavirus testing.

At the start of the briefing, Trump declared that the U.S. had passed the one million mark in tests performed — a milestone, he noted, that was more