The MOST Stupid Presidential Quotes during a Pandemic
#10: March 10: “We need the Wall more than ever!”
#9: March 13: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
#8: March 19: “It could have been stopped, could have been stopped pretty easily if we had known, if everybody had known about it… Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic… of this proportion.”
#7: February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
#6: March 27: “You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus…. I’m not sure anybody even knows what it is.”
#5: March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
#4: March 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.”
#3: March 13: “When you compare what we’ve done to other areas of the world, it’s pretty incredible.”
–2 weeks later, the US becomes the #1 country with Covid-19 cases in the world
#2: March 26: “It can’t be managed by the federal government.”
#1: January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Donald Trump Quotes During the #CoronavirusOutbreak by date:
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.”
February 10: “A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 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.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We’re going very substantially down, not up.”
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 like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
February 28: “The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus…. They tried the impeachment hoax…. They tried anything…. This is their new hoax.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
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 go to work, but they get better.” NOTE: The CDC advises people displaying symptoms to stay home and self-quarantine unless seeking medical care.
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!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 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.”
March 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.”
March 6: “When I was hearing the amount of people that died with the flu, I was shocked to hear it… I would have said, ‘Does anybody die of the flu?’ I didn’t know people died from the flu.”
March 6: “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
Current status: As of noon March 8, 2020, coronavirus is in 30 states plus the District of Columbia. Known U.S. cases exceed 400. The death toll stands at 19.
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 10: “Be calm. It’s really working out and a lot of good things are going to happen.”
March 10: “We need the Wall more than ever!”
Current status: As of March 10, 2020, U.S. coronavirus cases exceed 700. The death toll stands at 27. NY Governor Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to a command post in New Rochelle, a New York City suburb with at least 108 known cases of COVID-19.
March 11: “We’re having to fix a problem that four weeks ago nobody ever thought would be a problem.”
March 12: “We need a little separation until such time as this goes away. It’s gonna go away, it’s gonna go away… But in the meantime, we want to lose as few people as possible, so important.”
March 12: “Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth… we’ve done a good job on testing.”
Current status: As of March 12, the CDC had completed only 3,903 COVID-19 tests, with US public health labs completing an additional 9,721, for a total of 13,624. Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on that America’s lack of testing compared to other countries was “a failing. Let’s admit it.” Ohio’s top public health official estimated that the unchecked spread of coronavirus meant that 117,000 people were now infected in Ohio alone.
March 13: “When you compare what we’ve done to other areas of the world, it’s pretty incredible.”
March 13: “Five million (tests) within a month… I doubt we’ll need anything near that.”
March 13: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
March 14. “It’s something that nobody expected… it’s one of those things that happened. It’s nobody’s fault.”
March 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over”
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