President Trump said Tuesday that he “played” COVID-19, after telling Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that he “always sought to minimize it. “Trump made comments on an ABC News in the city corridor with unsafe voters.
“I didn’t downplay it. In fact, I interpreted it in many ways,” the president told the voter and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, who hosted the town hall.
Trump has given overly positive evidence of the pandemic’s trajectory and added in February, when there were only 15 cases shown in the United States, that the number of cases in the country would be reduced to 0 “in a few days. “There have been more than 6. 6 million cases shown and more than 195,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a johns Hopkins University account.
Trump also held a face-to-face demonstration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June, long after maximum states implemented blocking measures to prevent large rallies and curb the spread of the virus. Health officials said the collection “probably contributed” to Herman Cain, who attended the rally and photographed with an organization of others without masks, later died of COVID-19.
At City Hall, Trump also repeated his statement that the virus would simply “disappear. “The president said the population would expand a “herd mentality,” referring to the concept of group immunity.
“And it will grow, the herd will expand — like a herd mentality. It’s going to be — it’s going to be the evolved herd and it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen,” the president said.
Trump also said he has no regrets about the federal reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, and said his administration had done a job.
The CBS News ballot suggests that the electorate is not very happy with the president’s handling of the pandemic, the president’s approval and disapproval of the president’s functionality largely falls into partisan lines.