The Real Donald Trump and the Coronavirus Pandemic (2020)

Jan 20:

"I know more about viruses than anyone."

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."

Mar 6:

"Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They're there. And the tests are beautiful... . 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."

Mar 6:

"I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this?' Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."

Mar 6:

"I don't need to have the numbers double because of one 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:

"This blindsided the world."

Mar 13:

"National emergency, two big words."

Mar 13:

"I take no responsibility at all."