At a Feb. 28 rally in South Carolina, Trump accused Democrats of politicizing his lackluster coronavirus response, which he proclaimed was “one of the great jobs.”
“This is their new hoax,” he said. “We have 15 [coronavirus-positive] people in this massive country and because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.”
Nobody could have ever seen something like this coming.”
On March 25, Trump framed the pandemic as a completely unexpected problem nobody could have prepared for
"Who could have known that disbanding Obama's Pandemic Response Team would be such a terrible idea?"- Donald Trump