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  • 2020-03-17 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Timeline of Trump’s COVID-19 Statements’ Meme – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • ‘Timeline of Trump’s COVID-19 Statements’ Meme Claim United States President Donald Trump made several statements downplaying the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting As criticism spread against United States President Donald Trump’s administration for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March 2020, one graphic disseminated on social media listed his multiple attempts to downplay the disease: In this case, the graphic is completely accurate. The various statements are correctly attributed to Trump, and each has been verified in independent timelines compiled by news outlets. January 22: 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. Taken from a Trump interview with CNBC. February 2: We pretty much shut it down coming in from China. Taken from an interview with Fox News. February 24: The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA ... Stock Market starting to look very good to me! Taken from Trump’s Twitter. February 25: CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus. Taken from Trump’s Twitter. February 25: I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away. Taken from a press conference Trump delivered in India. February 26: The 15 [US COVID-19 cases] within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero; We’re going very substantially down, not up. Taken from a press conference led by Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. February 27: One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. Taken from remarks Trump gave during an event commemorating Black History Month. February 28: We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of — a lot of 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. Taken from remarks Trump made to reporters. 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. — Trump on the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/id6YLzbmRE — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2020 March 2: You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?; And we’re going to be very successful. A lot of things are happening. A lot of very exciting things are happening, and they’re happening very rapidly. Trump made these remarks during a public meeting with leaders from pharmaceutical companies. 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. Taken from another Trump interview with Fox News. March 5: I never said people that are feeling sick should go to work. Taken from Trump’s Twitter. 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; Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there; I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it; I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault. Taken from a press conference Trump gave at the Centers for Disease Control. March 8: We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus. Taken from Trump’s Twitter. March 9: This blindsided the world. Taken from Trump’s remarks at a press conference. A video with similar content, posted by writer Lindsay Holst and featuring audio of several of Trump’s remarks alongside a graph showing the spread of the disease, has been shared thousands of times on Twitter : 57 days later. pic.twitter.com/umsfZHyBuo Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — Lindsay Holst (@LindsayLHolst) March 17, 2020 On March 17 2020, journalists asked Trump why his tone had shifted so quickly and dramatically regarding the epidemic. He told reporters, I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. I’ve always viewed it as very serious. Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged coronavirus , covid-19 , pandemic , President Donald Trump , trump administration (en)
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