A timeline of Trump’s statements in regards to coronavirus COVID-19:
January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
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February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
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February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
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February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 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
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March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
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March 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
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March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 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!”
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March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
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March 13th: I’m declaring a national emergency.”
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