Trump hasn’t talked about that new milestone much, any more than he did as the figure approached 50,000. Over the course of the past two weeks, Democrats in the House and Senate have tweeted about or retweeted tweets mentioning the death toll 184 times. One reason that Democrats are mentioning the milestone so often, of course, is that they are tying Trump’s handling of the pandemic specifically to the death toll. Democrats see the death toll as a point of criticism of the president — and Trump, Republicans and Fox News seem as if they probably agree. It was a tweet that followed Trump’s formal expression of grief by casually blaming the toll on China.

Source: Washington Post May 28, 2020 16:08 UTC