TIMELINE OF TRUMP'S COVID_19 STATEMENTS
JAN 22: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine."
FEB 2: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
FEB 24: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA... Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
FEB 25: "CDC and 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 in the US) 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 or hundreds of 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: "I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work."
MAR 5: "The United States... has, as of now, only 129 cases... and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!"
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."
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MAR 9: "This blindsided the world."
When your photos app gives you flashbacks to what life was like around this time 5 years ago.
That feels like so long ago but it was the same horror show.
Wonder if he will kill as many people this time around.