17 August 2020: President Trump Criticizes Cuomo's Handling of COVID in New York Nursing Homes for First Time

Now AP estimates that the real Cuomo number of people killed because of his total incompetence is 11,000, not the 6000 that was originally thought!

This entry covering President Donald Trump's first documented criticism of Governor Andrew Cuomo's handling of COVID in New York nursing homes was inserted into the timeline on 7 May 2021. The text of President Trump's tweet above is taken from the Trump Twitter Archive, where the original tweet was posted at 11:26:41 PM Eastern Standard Time on 17 August 2020. This is the earliest criticism by President Trump of Governor Cuomo's handling of COVID in New York's nursing homes. The AP report that Trump cites was published nearly a week earlier, on 11 August 2020.

HT: Bill Hammond, who presents much more information in a 5 May 2021 Twitter thread.