Trumps Off-Hand Remarks About
The Novel Coronavirus
March 17, 2020
CNN
“I’ve always known, this is a, this a real, this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a
pandemic long before it was called a ‘pandemic’.”
Really Donald? Seriously?
NO.
These are his previous remarks on the subject, verbatim:
January 22, 2020
CNBC
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person, coming in from
China. And we have it under control, it’s, uh, gonna be just fine.”
February 2, 2020
Fox News
“We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.”
February 10, 2020
Fox Business
“You know in April, supposedly it dies with the hotter weather.”
Rally in Manchester, New Hampshire
“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little
warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
February 25, 2020
New Delhi, India
“In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26, 2020
White House Briefing Room
“We’re going down not up. We’re
going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27, 2020
White House conference room
“We have done an incredible job. We’re going to continue. It’s going to
disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28, 2020
Rally in North Charleston, South Carolina
“One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to
beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia, and that didn’t work out too well. They
couldn’t do it. They tried the Impeachment Hoax. That was not a perfect
conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over, and this is
their new hoax. (The elusive, nebulous "they")
March 4, 2020
On the phone with Sean Hannity
“Personally, I would say, I would
say the number is way under 1%.”
At some point in there, he made a statement about, “… these tests are
very complex. Very complex.” Yes, so
complex that people were able to have them administered at drive-thru
emergency stations. SO COMPLEX!
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All of that while people,
hundreds of people, who had contracted the novel coronavirus began to die.
As of March 19, 2020, eleven
thousand cases have been reported in the U.S., and more than 164 have died.
As of March 26, 2020, 500,000 (that's half a million) people globally have been confirmed as having the coronavirus, and 82,000 confirmed here in the U.S.
3.3 million unemployment claims were filed last week , March 15 - 21, 2020.
And this news headline just today (03/26/2020):
"Trump says he doesn't "know" what steps are being taken to stop hate crimes against Asian Americans"
Excuse me, but, you're the President of the United States and "knowing" these things IS part of your job description, Donny. Start asking more questions AND pay attention to the answers.
As of March 26, 2020, 500,000 (that's half a million) people globally have been confirmed as having the coronavirus, and 82,000 confirmed here in the U.S.
3.3 million unemployment claims were filed last week , March 15 - 21, 2020.
And this news headline just today (03/26/2020):
"Trump says he doesn't "know" what steps are being taken to stop hate crimes against Asian Americans"
Excuse me, but, you're the President of the United States and "knowing" these things IS part of your job description, Donny. Start asking more questions AND pay attention to the answers.
All of this from an animal sold at an open-air market in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
Did it originate with that animal in China? Or elsewhere?
We're still working on that part. Hopefully we get an answer very soon.
