Reading Time: 3 minutes Donald Trump has nearly 80 million Twitter followers, and the social media platform is one of his primary ways of communicating to the American people. As COVID-19 began to spread, how did President Trump use this platform to communicate with the public? WhoWhatWhy analyzed the tweets generated by the president between February 1 and April 13, as the pandemic moved from its initial stages to a full-blown crisis claiming tens of thousands of lives.