Trump's quotes below...
Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.โ
Jan 22: โWe have it totally under control. Itโs one person coming in from China. Itโs going to be just fine.โ
Feb 2: โWe pretty much shut it down coming in from China.โ
Feb 24: โThe Coronavirus is very much under control in the USAโฆ Stock Market starting to look very good to me!โ
Feb 25: โCDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.โ
Feb 25: โI think that's a problem thatโs going to go awayโฆ They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, weโre very close to a vaccine.โ
Feb 26: โThe 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.โ
Feb 26: โWe're going very substantially down, not up.โ
Feb 27: โOne day itโs like a miracle, it will disappear.โ
Feb 28: โWe'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.โ
Mar 2: โYou take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?โ
Mar 2: โA lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and theyโre happening very rapidly.โ
Mar 4: โIf we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work โ some of them go to work, but they get better.โ
Mar 5: โI NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.โ
Mar 5: โThe United Statesโฆ has, as of now, only 129 casesโฆ and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!โ
Mar 6: โI think weโre doing a really good job in this country at keeping it downโฆ a tremendous job at keeping it down.โ
Mar 6: โAnybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. Theyโre there. And the tests are beautifulโฆ. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.โ
Mar 6: โI like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, โHow do you know so much about this?โ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.โ
Mar 6: โI don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.โ
Mar 8: โWe have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.โ
Mar 9: โThis blindsided the world.โ
Mar 13: โNational emergency, two big words.โ
Mar 13: โI take no responsibility at all