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If you don't think #Trump failed to prepare for, safeguard from, and respond to #COVID19, then let's take a look.
March 2017 - Trump’s team all but ignored a pandemic response training from the Obama administration. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-appointees-trained-pandemic-response-in-2016-2020-3
March 2017 - Trump’s team all but ignored a pandemic response training from the Obama administration. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-appointees-trained-pandemic-response-in-2016-2020-3
May 2018 - Trump fired the White House global pandemic response team. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
September 2019 - Two months before #COVID19 potentially began its advance in China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-trump-pandemic-program-viruses-detection
Jan. 22 - A reporter asks if there are worries about a pandemic. #Trump responds: "No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from #China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/cnbc-transcript-president-donald-trump-sits-down-with-cnbcs-joe-kernen-at-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos-switzerland.html
Jan. 24 - Trump tweets "It will all work out well."
Jan. 30 - Trump holds a campaign rally in Iowa - "We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five, we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it." https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-speech-kag-rally-des-moines-iowa-january-30-2020
Feb. 2 - #Trump tells Fox News host #SeanHannity, "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China." https://www.foxnews.com/travel/airlines-us-coronavirus-outbreak-travelers-china
Feb 14: Trump says "very small" number of U.S. #COVID19 cases: "We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-national-border-patrol-council-members/
Feb. 19 - Trump told a Phoenix television station, “I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.” https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-interview-fox-10-phoenix-kari-lake-february-19-2020
Feb. 23: #Trump pronounces the situation “very much under control,” and added: “We had 12, at one point. And now they’ve gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-departure-83/
Feb. 24 - The same day, Trump asks for $1.25 billion in emergency aid. It grows to $8.3 billion in Congress. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/trump-coronavirus-budget-request-117275
Also Feb 24: #Trump tweets that the virus "is very much under control" and the stock market "starting to look very good to me!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1232058127740174339
Feb. 26 - Trump says we only have 15 cases and that will be going down to zero very soon. https://twitter.com/TheDemCoalition/status/1247110420256743424
Feb. 27 - #Trump predicted: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-african-american-leaders/
Feb. 29 - #Trump said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly” and praised his administration’s actions as “the most aggressive taken by any country.” None of these claims were true. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-2/
March 2 - #Trump suggested on multiple occasions that #COVID19 was less serious than the #flu. “We’re talking about a much smaller range” of deaths than from the flu. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-members-coronavirus-task-force-meeting-pharmaceutical-companies/
March 4 - “It’s very mild,” #Trump told @seanhannity https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/05/trumps-habit-fudging-inconvenient-numbers-enters-dangerous-territory/
March 4 - In a @FoxNews interview, #Trump deflects criticism to his #COVID19 response by saying the Obama administration (including the vice president, @JoeBiden) "didn't do anything about" swine flu. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-saying-barack-obama-did-nothing/
March 4 - #Trump continues, "The #Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing." Even though the process dated back to 2006.
Obama took office in 2008. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-blames-obama-limits-coronavirus-test/
Obama took office in 2008. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-blames-obama-limits-coronavirus-test/
March 6 - Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services, told @ABC, “There is no testing kit shortage, nor has there ever been." https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-coronavirus-testing/
March 6 - #Trump, while touring the CDC, said, “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.” https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/11/donald-trump/donald-trumps-wrong-claim-anybody-can-get-tested-c/
March 7 - #Trump said, “I’m not concerned at all.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-bolsonaro-brazil-working-dinner-west-palm-beach-fl/
March 10 - #Trump says “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-republican-senators-2/?utm_source=link&utm_medium=header
March 17 - #Trump says about #COVID19 "I've always known this is real, this is a #pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/18/donald-trump/trump-says-he-always-felt-coronavirus-was-pandemic/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/18/donald-trump/trump-says-he-always-felt-coronavirus-was-pandemic/
March 17 - Asked if the World Health Organization had offered detection #tests to the United States, #Trump said WHO had not, and that the WHO #coronavirus test "was a bad #test." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/17/donald-trump/donald-trump-falsely-says-who-coronavirus-test-was/
March 30 - Trump tells Fox News: "We inherited a broken test" for #COVID19. There could be no test for the new virus. China first confirmed its existence Dec. 31, 2019, and shared its genetic sequence Jan. 7. The CDC’s first shipment of tests to states contained tainted reagents.
We're a quarter of the way through April, with no clear vision of what's to come from any of this, and he is giving daily briefings spouting terrible advice, misinformation, and lies trying to bolster his failing image any way he can.
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