TRUMP'S RESPONSES TO CORONAVIRUS
JAN 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.”
FEB 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China. It’s going to be fine.”
FEB 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA... Stock Market
starting to look very good to me!”
FEB 25: “CDC & my administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
FEB 25: “I think that's a problem that's going to go away. They have studied it. They
know very much. In fact, we're very close to a vaccine.”
FEB 26: “The 15 cases within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
FEB 26: "We're going very substantially down, not up.”
FEB 27: "One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
FEB 28: "We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that
frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering
a lot of different elements of medical.”
MAR 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or
much of an impact, on corona?”
MAR 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening
and they're happening very rapidly.”
MAR 4: "If we have thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting
around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
MAR 5: “| NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
MAR 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down... a
tremendous job at keeping it down.”
MAR 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test.
And the tests are beautiful. They are perfect just like the letter was perfect. The
transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
MAR 6: "1 like this stuff. | really get it. People are surprised that | understand it. Every
one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe | have a
natural ability. Maybe | should have done that instead of running for president.”
MAR 6: “| don't need to have the numbers double b/c of 1 ship that wasn't our fault.”
MAR 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for
our attack on Coronavirus.”
MAR 9: "The Fake News Media & their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing
everything within its semi-considerable power to inflame the Coronavirus situation.”
MAR 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
MAR 13: National Emergency Declared
