President Donald Trump announced in the early morning of October 2 that he and the former had tested positive for COVID-19. Late in the afternoon, the White House said that “as a precaution,” the president had been taken to walter Reed National Army. Medical Center, where I’d spend the next few days.
Since the coronavirus outbreak, the president has downplayed the dangers of COVID-19, challenging the effectiveness of masks, touting unproven remedies, and criticizing his own fitness experts, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infections
Here is a timeline of the president’s comments on COVID-19 and the control of COVID-19 by his administration.
In the early days of what would turn out to be a pandemic, the president minimized the risk posed by the new coronavirus.
January 20 – The first case of coronavirus is reported in the United States.
January 22 – “We’ve got it completely under control. This is a user from China. We’ve got it under control. It’ll be very good. ” – Trump in an interview with CNBC.
January 30 – A public fitness emergency is concerned by the World Health Organization.
January 30 : “We think we’ve mastered it very well. We have very few challenges in this country right now, five, and all those other people are successfully recovering. But we are working hard with China and other countries, and we believe it. “it’s going to have a very smart ending for us. . . Trump in a speech in Michigan.
January 31: The US Department of Health and Human Services declares a public emergency in the United States.
January 31 – HHS Secretary Alex Azar announces restrictions starting February 2 to enter the United States.
Trump privately tells reporter Bob Woodward that the new coronavirus is “something fatal,” but goes on to say it’s “under control,” even suggesting it might disappear in the spring.
February 7: “It goes through the air, Bob. It’s harder than touch . . . Just breathe the air and that’s how it goes. And it’s a very delicate question . . . It’s also more fatal than you – you know, You, even your exhausting flu . . . It’s more fatal. It’s 5, you know, it’s 5% instead of 1% and less than 1%. You know, then, those are fatal things. – Trump in an interview with Woodward , published in September.
February 10: “Now, the virus we’re talking about has to do it, you know, a lot of other people think it disappears in April in the heat, when the heat comes. In general, this will disappear in April. However, they are in wonderful shape. We have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good condition now. – Trump in the White House. (See our article “Will the New Coronavirus Disappear” in April?”)
Feb 14: “There’s a theory that in April, when it’s hot, historically, you may just have killed the virus. So we don’t know yet; we’re not sure yet. But it’s just around the corner. ” – Trump addressing members of the National Border Patrol Council.
February 24 : “The coronavirus is well below in the United States. We are in contact with all and all countries involved. The CDC and World Health have worked hard and very intelligently. The inventory market is starting to look very smart to me!” – Trump in a tweet.
February 26: “We’re at a low level. As they get better, we remove them from the list, so soon we won’t be five others anymore. And we may only be one or two more people in the next brief time. So we were very lucky. “
“I believe that each and every facet of our society wants to prepare. I don’t think it’s going to get to that point, especially with the fact that we’re coming down, not going up. We’re going down very significantly, not up. – when asked if “US schools have been able to do so. UU. se prepare for the spread of coronavirus” ».
“I need you to sense anything that surprised me when I saw you, and I talked to Dr. [Anthony] Fauci about it, and I was surprised, and I think to the fullest other people are amazed to hear it: the flu in our country kills 25,000 to 69,000 people a year. I was surprised. And so far, if you look at what we have with the other 15 people and their recovery, one is: one is quite in poor health, but I hope it recovers, however, the others are in a wonderful way. But think about it: 25,000 to 69,000. In the last 10 years, we’ve lost 360,000. ‘
“But it’s a bit like the flu. It’s a bit like the normal flu you’re vaccinating for. And we’re going to get the flu shot pretty quickly. “- Trump at a briefing of the White House Coronavirus Working Group.
February 27: “It will disappear. Someday, it’s like a miracle, it’ll happen. “– Trump at a White House assembly with African-American leaders.
February 28: “A number that nobody has heard or heard recently, and I was surprised to hear it, an average of 35,000 people die every year from the flu. Did anyone know? . . . They say a minimum of 27, goes up to 100,000 people die a year, and so far we have not lost anyone to the coronavirus in the United States. Personalne. That does not mean that we will not do it and that we are fully prepared. That does not mean that we will not do it. But think about it, you listen to 35 and 40,000 more people and we haven’t lost anyone. You wonder, the press is in hysterical mode. “
“Now democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that, don’t they?Coronavirus, they politicize it. We did one of the wonderful jobs. You say, “How’s President Trump?”They say, “Oh, it’s not good, it’s not good, ” “They have no idea. They have no idea . . . They tried the deception of the prosecution. This is a better conversation. They tried everything. They tried again and again. They’ve been doing it since you llegó. en. Se it. Perdieron. Se’s over. Thoughts — and. This is his new deception. – Trump at a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina.
February 29 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the first death shown by COVID-19 in the United States. Subsequently, the post-mortem effects in California attributed two deaths in early to mid-February to the disease.
“No, no. A hoax that refers to the action [Democrats] are taking to blame someone because we’ve done such a smart job. Deception is not afraid of them . . . I’m not talking about what’s going on here. I’m talking about what they’re doing. It’s a hoax. – Trump in a briefing of the coronavirus briefing when asked if he regretted the word “deception” the night before.
In mid-March, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic; Trump’s leadership has taken steps to curb the spread; and the president and remaining Democratic hopefuls stopped holding public crusades. But at the end of the month, Trump spoke about reopening America and having “full churches across our country” by Easter.
March 2: Trump is holding an election rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, his last rally before the implementation of coronavirus prevention measures across the country. Estimates of the number of people ranged from 7,000 to 15,000 people, according to WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
“My management has also taken the most competitive steps in fashion history to protect Americans from coronavirus,” she says. “We had a wonderful meeting today with a lot of big corporations and they’re going to have vaccines. I think relatively soon and you’ll have anything that makes it more wonderful and that will happen, we think, even sooner. “
“I think it’s very safe,” Trump told reporters that morning when asked if rallies and a physical fitness crisis were safe.
March 4 : “[N] we have a very small number of people in this [infected] country. We have a wonderful country. The biggest effect we had was when we took another 40 people [from a cruise ship]. . . . We brought them back. We quarantined them without delay. But you put that up to the numbers. But if that doesn’t go up to the numbers, we’re talking about very small numbers in the United States. – Trump during a White House assembly with airline CEOs.
“Well, I think 3. 4% is a false figure. ” Trump in an interview on Fox News, referring to the percentage of patients diagnosed with international COVID-19 who have died, according to the World Health Organization (see our article “Trump and the Coronavirus Mortality Rate”).
March 6: “We had 11 deaths, and most of the older people are not unusually older the ones who are sensitive to what is happening. Now that would be the case, I suppose, with a normal flu as well. If a user is elderly and in a weakened state or in poor health, they are also vulnerable to non-unusual influenza. You know, I was previously told that non-unusual influenza kills other people and other elderly people are kind of a target. scale in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
March 7 : “No, I’m not involved at all. No, we did a wonderful task with that. “- Trump, asked through reporters if he was involved about the arrival of the coronavirus in the Washington, D. C. area.
March 9 – So last year, 37,000 Americans died from a common flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 consistent with the year. Nothing stops, life and the economy continue. Right now, there are 546 cases shown of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths Think about it!- Trump on a tweet.
March 10: “And we’re in a position and we’re doing a wonderful job with it. And it will disappear. Keep calm. It will disappear. – Trump after assembly with Republican senators.
March 11 – WHO declares pandemic epidemic.
Confirmed instances of coronavirus in the United States have reached 1000 and testing is still limited. According to the COVID monitoring project, there were 20,166 effects in the country, there are 31 deaths.
March 13 : Trump declares a national coronavirus-related emergency.
March 15 – “It’s a very contagious virus, it’s a very contagious virus. It’s amazing. But it’s something we have so much more about. – Trump at a White House working group briefing.
March 16: The White House announces recommendations for a 15-day era to slow the spread of coronavirus, adding staying home if you feel sick, if a family member is tested or older, or if you have a serious fitness problem.
“When I say Array, I say that we do a very intelligent task within the limits of what we are dealing with. We’re doing a very smart task. Array. . If you’re talking about the virus, no, it’s nowhere in the world. . . . I was saying that what we do is in an arrangement. ” — Trump at a White House working group press conference.
March 17: “I knew it was — it’s genuine — it’s a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. “- Trump at a White House working group press conference.
March 19: “To be fair to you, I tried to minimize it, I like to minimize it, because I don’t need to create panic. – Trump in an interview with journalist Woodward, published in September.
March 23: “People suffer from super anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have horrible savings. You have death. Probably and, I mean, they’d be in numbers much bigger than the numbers we’re talking about. “regarding the virus. ” — Trump in a White House working group briefing.
March 24: “I’m thinking about Easter Sunday and I’ve filled myself with churches all over the country. I think it would be a lovely moment. And that’s the timeline that I think is right,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.
“I brought some numbers here, we lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don’t shut down the country, I mean every year. Now that I hear the number, we have an average of 37,000 more people a year. Can you do this? And, in fact, this year we have a bad flu season, yet we’re wasting thousands of people every year because of the flu. We never shut down the country. We lose a lot more than that in car accidents. We didn’t call the automakers and said, “Stop making cars. We don’t need any more cars. ” We have to get back to work. “- Trump on a virtual Fox News from City Hall.
March 26 – The United States has 100,000 cases of coronavirus, more than any other country, and the death toll is 1,000.
March 29: “So you’re talking about 2. 2. 2 million deaths, 2. 2 million other people because of that. And so, if we can keep that figure, as we say, at a hundred, 000, it’s a terrible figure. even less, even in a hundred, 000; so we have between a hundred and 200,000, we’ve all done a very smart task together. “Trump at a press conference of the organization that runs the White House.
March 30 : The White House extends its recommendations to “slow down transmission” until April 30.
“We can expect that until June 1st we will return to normal. We think that until June 1, a lot of wonderful things are going to happen. – Trump in uttering the extension of those recommendations.
March 31: “I mean, I’ve had a lot of friends, other business people, other people with a wonderful, unusual sense, in fact, said, ‘Why don’t we get away with it?’A lot of other people I’ve said, a lot of other people have an idea about it: “Take it out, don’t do anything, just do it and think of it as the flu. “But it’s not the flu. – Trump in a briefing of the White House group of runners.
The president undermines the CDC’s advice to use mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19, urges governors to open their states, and suggests tactics for using ultraviolet rays and a disinfectant to treat COVID-19.
April 1: “Because remember, after about a month, I think once it’s over, we may not have to worry too much about the virus. “
April 2 – “We are running to expand new coverage strategies against the virus, as well as therapies, remedies and, ultimately, a vaccine. And we’re making a lot of progress. I think, medically, a lot of progress. – Trump at a press conference of an on-going organization.
April 3: The CDC recommends that others start “wearing cloth masks in public places where other social estating measures are difficult to maintain. “
“So he’s a volunteer; You don’t have to. I was advised for a while. But he’s a volunteer. I don’t think he’s going to do it . . . So with the masks, it’s really going to be voluntary. You can do it. You don’t have to. I won’t, however, other people may need to, and that’s not a problem. It can be good. He probably will. They’re doing some advice. That’s just advice. He volunteers. – Trump at a press conference of an on-going organization giving the CDC’s advice on face masks.
April 5 – “We’re starting to see the gentleness at the end of the tunnel. And I hope that in the not very remote future, we will be very proud of the paintings we have all made. We will never be satisfied when so many other people die, however, we will be very proud of the paintings we have made to minimize death, the minimal that may have happened with this horrible and horrific virus. “- Trump at a press conference of an on-going organization.
April 8: “I also spoke to more than 3,000 mayors, county commissioners, and heads of state and tribes to inventory our administration’s ongoing efforts to defeat the virus, reduce the virus. And it’s happening. And that happens, I think if you look, a little faster than other people thought. Maybe a lot faster, I hope. And it’s anything we look at all over the world, yet other people look at us and see what we’re doing, and they’re very impressed. ” – Trump at a press conference of a running organization.
April 13 – “The United States continues to make critical progress in our war against the virus. Over the weekend, the number of new infections remained strong across the country. . . This is transparent evidence that our competitive strategy to fight the virus is working” and that Americans are following the guidelines. – Trump at an on-going organization press conference.
April 16 – “At the reopening, we know that there will be continuing difficulties and demanding situations to come. Our purpose will be to temporarily identify and treat any outbreak and temporarily extinguish it. If the virus reappears in the fall, as some scientists think, those rules will make our country operational so that we can also temporarily shut it down. – Trump at a running organization press conference.
April 17 – “I don’t need other people to think it’s going to be like this forever. But, for a while, we’re going to have to keep it that way. Includes baseball and soccer games, and other things. But eventually, as this virus disappears, it will increase more and more. – Trump at a working group press conference
April 20 – “We continue to be encouraged by the fact that many of the spaces affected to the fullest by the virus seem to have cornered. “- Trump at a press conference of an on-going organization.
April 21 : “Therefore, for American workers, I will factor a transitional suspension of immigration to the United States; found out last night.
April 22 : “This virus will disappear. And if he showed up in the fall, we’ll do it very quickly. “Trump at an organization press conference underway.
April 23: “Assuming we hit the frame with a wonderful soft, either ultraviolet or just a soft fort, and I think you said it wasn’t verified, but you’re passing by to check. And then I said assuming that you bring the soft inside of the frame, what you can do through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you were going to stop by to check that out too. Sounds attractive, doesn’t it? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks her unconscious in a minute, a minute. And is there any way to do something like that by injecting or almost cleaning, because you can see it’s happening to the lungs and it’s a huge amount in the lungs?So it would be interesting to check that’s it. So you have to go to the doctors, but I find that attractive. So let’s see, however, the total concept of gentile, how he kills her in a minute. It’s pretty powerful. – Trump at a labor group press conference.
April 24 : “That’s where they came here with a final report that the sun has a huge negative effect on this virus. In other words, it does not live well with moisture and does not live well with the sun, sunlight, heat. It does not live well with heat, sun and disinfectant. And that’s what I got. And I imagine he was clear. – Trump in a rite of signing the bill, when asked to “clarify his comments on disinfectant injections” the day before.
April 28 – Confirmed instances of coronavirus in the United States reached 1 million and more than 57,000 people in the country died from the virus.
April 29 : “I don’t need other people to get used to it, because this virus happens to disappear. And when it happens, you have to get back to normal. You’re not going through to have a level 30% the duration of what it was about 3 months. If I watch Alabama play LSU, I don’t need to see another 20,000 people instead of 120,000 other people. We need it to be like this. Now let’s wait until it happens. And it’s getting past. And we’ve done a lot to get rid of him. But we — we need to open up our country. People need this country to be opened. – at a roundtable with industry leaders.
April 30: “But as for where I happen in Arizona, I’m passing by to have to look at the weather. I wouldn’t have any challenges dressed in a mask. I do not know. I intend to give a speech. I just don’t know: do I have to communicate with a mask?You’re passing through to have to tell me if that’s politically correct. I don’t know. If that’s the case, I’ll communicate with a mask. “- Trump’s comments at the White House, when asked about dressing up in a mask on his next stop in Arizona on May 5.
In May, the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 100,000 and the president revealed that he was taking an unproven remedy, hydroxychloroquine, to save him from COVID-19.
May 3: “On January 23, I was told there might be a virus, but it wasn’t important. In other words, it wasn’t, oh, we have to do something, we have to do something. It was a brief conversation. – Trump on a Fox News from City Hall, when asked about reports that he was informed of the risk of virus in January.
“Intelligence just informed me that I was right and that they didn’t bring up the coronavirus issue until the end of January, just before my Ban on China in the United States. Besides, they only talked about the virus in a very negative way. threateningly, or indeed. . . ” — Trump on a tweet.
May 5 : “You know, the virus will pass. There will be more deaths, as the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine. And I think we’re doing really well with vaccines, but with or without a vaccine, it’s going to happen and we’re going to get back to normal. But it’s a complicated process. Trump in an abc News interview.
“Will he come back modestly? But now we know a lot more about how to deal with it. You know, nobody knew at first. Now we know we can turn off the chimneys. – I call them “stews” if it’s a place for a small fireplace – or if it’s a place for a fireplace or a hot spot, we can just turn it off. – Trump at the same signing ceremony.
May 8 – “Well, I think about both vaccines and tests. He’s going on to disappear without a vaccine. He’ll disappear, and that’s — we’ll never see him again, hopefully, after a while. You can have — pushes” and I guess, you know, I’d be waiting for you. In the fall, you might have buds. Maybe not. But from what a lot of other people say, you probably will. We’ll broadcast them. ” – Trump in an assembly with Republican members of Congress.
May 11 : “Coronavirus figures look MUCH better, reducing almost everywhere. Great progress is being made!” – Trump on a tweet.
May 14 : “We have the most productive tests in the world. It may be that the evidence is, frankly, overrated. Maybe they’re overrated. “Trump in a speech at Owens Distribution Center
May 18: “I take it, hydroxychloroquine . . . Now, yes. A few weeks ago, I took a little . . . Because I think he’s smart. I’ve heard a lot of smart stories. “- Trump at a roundtable with restaurant executives (see our account “Trump’s Back Deceives Hydroxychloroquine”).
May 19: “So when we have a lot of cases, I don’t see it as a bad thing; I think that’s, in a sense, a smart thing to do because it means our tests are so much better. “- Trump at a closet meeting.
May 25: “Excellent reviews on our handling of Covid 19, known as the Chinese virus. Ventilators, testing, medical supply supply, we’ve made a lot of Governors look wonderful, and we don’t get any credit for that. Most importantly, we have helped a lot of wonderful people! – Trump in a tweet.
May 27 – More than 100,000 people have died of coronavirus in the United States.
May 29 – “Our country is still in mourning for the lives charged by the virus and mourning for families who have lost the ones they enjoyed. “- Trump at a roundtable with leaders on the reopening of the country.
About a week after the number of cases shown of COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 2 million on June 11, Trump held an indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the first since the pandemic began. He also tried to disprove the growing number of cases. falsely stating, “If we did the test, we would have no case. “
June 3 – “I also think we’ll have a vaccine until the end of the year. We’re fine. I just had an assembly yesterday. I think we’re going to have therapies, and I think we’re going to have remedies. “. So we’re going to be in very good shape. ” — Trump in an interview with Fox Radio Network.
June 5 – “I think in the fall you’ll see schools open and in the most sensible way” – Trump at a medical products company in Maine.
June 11: Confirmed to exceed 2 million.
June 17 : “I think it’s time to revive our country, basically. And can we just keep it closed longer? Personally, I don’t think so. I don’t think other people will accept it. And I don’t think it’s the right thing to do.
“On the coronavirus, I acted very temporarily and acted early. And they can’t get over it. Number one. Number two. If he hadn’t acted, we’d have had three million deaths. And instead, it’s 110,000,and we might move on to a number that’s, you know, over 150,000 to [200,000], maybe now to define how it happens. – Trump in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“Children, the number is very, very small, almost, almost non-existent. And that’s an amazing thing. His immune formula is very strong. That’s why we have to open schools. ” Trump in an interview with Fox News.
June 20: “They call me, they say that the paintings you make, here’s the side, when you check, when you do checks up to this point, you’re going to locate more people, you’re going to locate more cases. I told my team to slow down the controls, please. – Trump at an indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the first since the pandemic was the statement in March.
June 25: “We have more instances because we do the most productive controls. If we didn’t do a check, we wouldn’t have a case. Other countries, they don’t control millions. So we’re at almost 30 million controls. So when you win 30 million of them, you’ll have a child with a cold, and they’ll tell you it’s a coronavirus, as you should call it. “- Trump in a virtual televised town hall. (See our account “Trump falsely says the push of COVID-19” only “by checks, deceives deaths”)
In early July, the president spoke of “progress” and how the virus “will somehow disappear. “But then the president canceled Jacksonville, Florida’ portion of the Republican convention, with coronavirus cases in the United States exceeding four million and deaths exceeding 150,000. , the death of Trump’s supporter and former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
July 1: “Well, I don’t know if you want mandatory [conditions] because you have a lot of places in the country where other people stay for a long time. You’re talking about social estating. But I’m in favor of the mask. I think the mask’s good. I would put — if I were in an organization of other people, and I close . . . I mean, I wouldn’t have a problem. In fact, he had a mask. My appearance, okay? I think it’s okay. It’s a dark black mask, and I think it’s okay. He looked like the Lone Ranger.
“I think we’ll be very much with the coronavirus. I think at some point it will just disappear, I hope,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network.
July 4: “We’ve come a long way. Ours is progressing well. “Trump marks Independence Day with commentary in Washington, D. C.
July 9 : “They got really bad, adding the masks. Maybe they’re wrong, maybe they’re not. But many of them said, don’t wear a mask, don’t wear a mask. And now they say, put on a mask. – Trump in a phone interview with Sean Hannity, referring to scientists’ recommendations about dressing up in face masks.
“I don’t agree that if everyone wears a mask, everything disappears. Hey, Dr. Fauci said don’t wear a mask. Our general surgeon, a wonderful guy, said not to wear a mask. Wear a mask – everyone suddenly has to wear a mask, and as you know, the mask is also a problem. Having said that, I’m a supporter of the mask. I think the mask’s good. But I’ll leave it to the governors. Trump in an interview with Fox News.
July 17: “We’ve had big demonstrations in Wisconsin and across the country, and until this is resolved in Array. . . it’s going to be hard to have those giant meetings. ” Trump on a virtual tele-rally in Wisconsin.
July 20 : “We are united in our efforts to defeat China’s invisible virus, and many others say it is patriotic to wear a mask when you distance yoursing socially. There’s no one more patriotic than me, your favorite president!”- Trump in a tweet.
July 21 – “We ask everyone that when they are not going to walk away socially, put on a mask, they take a mask. Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact. They will have an effect. “- Trump at a press conference.
July 21: “Some parts of our country are doing very well, some parts are doing not so well. Unfortunately, the scenario will get worse before it gets worse, which I don’t like to say about things, but it does. . – Trump at a briefing at the White House.
“You will never hear that in the fake news about the Chinese virus, however, compared to the maximum of other countries, which are suffering a lot, we are doing very well, and we have done things that few other countries may have done!”Trump in a tweet.
July 22: “I think you’re using it, even if there’s a 1% chance I’ll help you. You know, when you look at Dr. Fauci and others, and it’s not a success, because that’s how it is” if you look, from the beginning, everyone said, don’t wear a mask. Don’t wear a mask. It doesn’t make sense to me, but don’t wear a mask. Now everyone says, wear a mask. My attitude is that it probably helps. Try it, because we have to win this. – Trump in an interview with Fox News.
July 23 : Confirmed instances achieve four million in the United States
“We are following his example. We don’t need to have other people so close to other people. “Trump, in an interview with Fox News, asked about the resolution to cancel planned convention activities in Jacksonville, Florida, and bring the occasion back to North Carolina.
July 28 : “We are seeing innovations in primary metropolitan spaces and maximum access points. You can take a look at giant portions of our country; it’s, it doesn’t have a crown,” Trump said at a White House briefing.
July 29 – Deaths in the United States attributed to COVID-19 exceed 150,000.
July 30 – “First of all, let me explain our sadness at the passing of a glorious and expensive friend of mine, Herguy Cain. She’s a very special person. I knew him very well. And, unfortunately, he died because of what’s called the Chinese virus. – Trump at a briefing at the White House, referring to former Republican presidential candidate, who attended Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
July 31 – “The most productive way to succeed over the disease is non-public responsibility. You heard me say that. In fact, you’ve heard a lot of other people say that. I urge all Americans to protect the elderly. The fact is, you have to do the social estre. It’s very important. Social distance. Wear a mask when you can’t avoid crowded places or social distance. And wash your hands as much as possible. ” Trump at a roundtable in Belleair, Florida.
The president began the month with an interview in which he said, when asked about COVID-19 deaths, “that’s what it is. “He continued to urge Americans to move socially away, but also ignored New Jersey’s demands for estating by conducting a press conference attended by enthusiasts at his state golf club. During the month, COVID-19 instances in the United States exceeded five million and, 22 days later, exceeded 6 million.
August 3 – “They die [of coronavirus]. It’s true. And that’s what it is. – Trump in an interview with Axois.
“Very, very vital, the elderly. It’s very different. Young people have a very strong immune system. We’ve learned how strong they are. But the elders. The average age of those succumbing to the virus is 78 years. “Trump at a press conference on blanks.
“With the exception of New York and some other countries, we have done MUCH more than the maximum of other countries to fight the Chinese virus. Many of these countries have been experiencing a momentary primary wave lately. Fake news is running to get the US to do so. U. S. (and I) the worst possible!- Trump on a tweet.
August 4: “People check the masks, but there’s no problem dressing with them, and you go through the masks. “Trump in an interview with Grey TV.
August 5 – “I also urge Americans to help us prevent the spread of the virus. Practice smart hygiene, stay away from social and giant crowds, and wear a mask where distance is not possible. It’s a patriotic thing. ” Trump in a white house briefing.
August 7: Trump held a news convention attended by the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey through golf club guests, many without a face mask or social estating in violation of state guidelines. When asked “why is he setting a bad example,” trump the reporter said, “You know, you have an exclusion from the law. He says “peaceful protest” or “political activity, ” doesn’t he?. . . I would call it “peaceful demonstrations” because they heard you were going up. And they know the news is false.
August 9 – The number of instances displayed in the United States exceeds five million.
“We urge all Americans to move socially away and to giant crowds and everything we communicate all the time. – Trump at a briefing at the White House.
August 10: “The underlying situations are very important. If you are – if you are in poor health in any way, if you are – yes – above all, say, center and diabetes. It’s not a smart thing if you — if you need to have this, if you need to catch it. “- Trump at a briefing at the White House.
August 11 – “America wins war with the virus. “- Trump in a speech at a tele-mitin in North Carolina.
“So we have to see school football start and a lot of wonderful people will be there. They’re going to be there, they’re going to play football and they can fight it. And I hope they probably don’t. ” brain at all. Most of them will never make it, statistically. “- Trump at a briefing at the White House.
August 13 : “So we will defeat the virus, but not hiding in our basements. He wants to get out of his basement. We will defeat this virus through a common sense mitigation effort, protecting those at peak risk and freeing medical and clinical engineering. – Trump in a blank briefing, referring to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
“Yes, I’m thinking of going straight to the United Nations to give the speech. Many other people will not be able, because of COVID, to be there, as you know. But I think, I think it’s appropriate. If we can do it, I will do it directly. – Trump in a white space briefing confirming that he sought to deliver a user speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
August 18 – “Closures are probably, or possibly, causing me much more serious disorders than the virus itself. – Trump at a local TV interview in Phoenix, Arizona.
August 19 – “Older Americans remain the most vulnerable to the virus: 92% of deaths occurred among the over-55s. . . For the elderly and others with underlying diseases, the Chinese virus is very dangerous, but for college students, the likelihood of a serious illness is less than or equivalent to the threat of seasonal influenza. “- Trump at a briefing at the White House.
August 20: “Turn off Wolf. No can do that. It’ll destroy your soul. You know, what’s going on is depression, anxiety, disorders with members of the circle of relatives, medications, attacks on the center, obesity. what are you doing? It’s more harmful than the virus. Trump prevented a crusade in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, where he criticized Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, calling him “Shutdown Wolf. “(Since July 3, all Pennsylvania counties were in the green phase of reopening with restrictions on bars, restaurants, and meetings. )
August 23 – “Today I am pleased to make a historic announcement in fact in our war against the Chinese virus that will save countless lives. The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization, and that’s such a difficult term: emergency use. “authorization – for a remedy called convalescence plasma . . . It has shown that it reduces mortality by 35%. ” Trump in a White House briefing (his claim that convalescent plasma has been shown to reduce mortality by 35% is false).
August 24: “And when we get rid of this, this virus, that will happen, and it will happen faster than other people think, and it will be with vaccines, but even without vaccines. Trump in statements in Mills River, North Carolina.
August 28 : “I need football back. They’re young, strong kids, they might not be affected by the virus. If you look at that, it’s the elderly, the elderly who have problems at the center, the ones with diabetes. “, who have problems. – Trump at an outdoor rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.
August 31 : “I’ve mobilized the biggest reaction since World War II to fight the Chinese virus and we’re doing well. Our numbers are excellent, good, and we hope to succeed on the last corner after this crisis that we were given through China. “- Trump in a virtual Tele-Rally in Nevada.
The number of shown in the United States exceeds 6 million.
On the day COVID-19 deaths in the United States exceeded 200,000, the president told a Detroit television station that “we’ve done a job. “When instances of COVID-19 were shown in the United States exceeded 7 million, the cross president in Virginia, saying “we’ve done a great job. “He also questioned the effectiveness of the mask and organized an indoor crusade meeting.
September 1: “I’m the one who says he’s playing football. I said, “They’re strong young men, they won’t have a challenge with COVID or the Chinese virus or whatever it’s called. “It’s me — and they didn’t like my story, so they just made up a story. Because if you look, Michigan is closed. All states that are closed, North Carolina is closed; States that are closed are executed through Democrats, and the explanation for why they are closed is that we have elections on November 3 and do not need state opening and do not need revenue. They need them to remain excellent and closed. ” Trump in an interview with Laura Ingraham of Fox News.
September 3 – “I’ve never noticed a boy [Biden] who enjoyed more than one mask. Look, I’m in favor. . . but have you ever noticed a guy who loves a mask as much as he does?makes a speech and has it, still doesn’t occasionally suspend it because you know what, it gives it a sense of security. If I were a psychiatrist, right? No, I’d say this guy’s in big trouble. “- Trump at a rally he attended through an estimated crowd of outdoor cargo from an airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
September 4 – “Then, on the Front of the Chinese virus, the nations of Europe experienced an excess mortality of 38% higher than the United States – 38% more excess mortality than the United States. Many of you don’t need to report this. And if we get New York out of the equation, there’s no one close to it. The paintings we’ve made are incredible. ” — Trump at a briefing on the coronavirus (it’s about comparing excess mortality; see our article “Trump Promotes a Misleading and Imperfect Statistic on Higher Mortality”).
September 4: “And we’ve done a fantastic job with this Chinese virus, the invisible enemy. I don’t have any credit for that. ” Trump a tele-mitin in North Carolina.
September 9: “I need to show calm. I’m the leader of the country, I can’t jump and scare other people. I don’t need to scare other people. I don’t need other people to panic. “And that’s exactly what I did. ” — Trump in an interview with Fox News.
September 10 : “We continue to advance in our fight against the Chinese virus. New weeklys have dropped by 44% since July. Deaths have dropped by 20% compared to last week. It decreases very quickly. Very fast. ” Trump at a press conference.
“Before the end of the year, we will have an effective vaccine and defeat the Chinese virus. “- Trump at a rally that ended with an estimated crowd of 5,000 people outdoors at an airport in Freeland, Michigan.
September 12: “But we defeated the Chinese virus. ” Trump at a rally attended by a crowd estimated at thousands outdoors at an airport in Minden, Nevada.
“We store millions of lives and close it. But they touched us, and now we’re opening it up and making records. We set records. But I need to see this state open. ” Trump in a local television interview in Reno, Nevada.
September 13: “We are preparing a vaccine in record time . . . We will be in a position before the end of the year and we will defeat the Chinese virus without problems. That is what is happening and we are in a position” to make this change. We’re doing this latest lovely trick. ”- Trump at an indoor rally in Hfinisherson, Nevada, ended through thousands of people.
September 14 – “[T]he Chinese virus was a big setback, but now we’re back in business. “- Trump at a Latin roundtable for Trump in Phoenix, Arizona.
September 15: “But we are — we’re starting to get very smart grades. “
“But if it was Dr. Fauci or anyone else, many other people were misunderstood. They talked about not wearing a mask, and now they say they’re wearing a mask. Although other people say they don’t wear a mask, you have many other ideas. . . By the way, there are now many other people who don’t need to wear a mask. There are many other people who think the mask is good. – Trump at an ABC News City Council.
September 16: “In the mask – the mask I also have disorders. And I said that the mask must be treated very gently, very carefully. I see that in restaurants there are other people with masks and they play with their mask, and they have them – their hands are on their mask and then they serve with dishes. I mean, I think there’s a lot of masked disorder. – Trump at a press conference.
September 17: “But lately we have 3 vaccines. They’re in the latter stages, clinical trials. We worked for the FDA, where it was quickly approved. They worked very fast, very fast, to degrees that no one else could. “Trump at a rally attended by an estimated crowd of thousands outdoors at an airport in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
September 18: “You don’t have to wear masks at the demonstrations. So I said,” You know, we can’t have a rally. “The maximum we can have is 10 people, but why not call it a demonstration because it is a demonstration? It is a protest opposed to stupidity. ” – Trump at an election rally in Bedmidji, Minnesota (Trump reportedly addressed a crowd of “thousands”).
Sept. 19: “We will end the China pandemic. We will end our – our scourge of China. ” – Trump at a rally that ended with another 5,600 people outdoors at an airport in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
September 21: “Now we know. It affects the elderly, the elderly with center disorders and other disorders. If they have other disorders, that’s what it affects. That’s all. You know, in some states, thousands of other people, not a young one, under the age of 18, like no one else. They have a strong immune system, who knows? They look at you, they take off their hats to other young people because they have an incredible immune system, but it hardly affects anyone. Trump at an outdoor rally at an airport in Swanton, Ohio.
September 22: “The CDC is a long time ago, long before me and I, I don’t like the fact that they’re sending conflicting messages either. They put things in, they take them out, you know, it’s, they don’t know, they’ve been there for a long time. The CDC, uh, comes out with all the other messages. Now, I’ll give you an example, um, wear a mask, don’t wear a mask. “
“Because my followers are very wise and they do, many of them wear masks and others don’t, it’s their choice. But they, you know, when you’re out, you have a lot of space, and all I” have read and all I’ve noticed is that outdoors it’s bigger in terms of COVID or as I call China virus . . . You know, in a moment, they said, don’t wear a mask. Dr. Fauci said, don’t wear a mask, everyone said the mask was a bad thing. Then they come as if the mask is the most productive thing you can do. You know, you get all those other messages. And I guess I’m somewhere in the middle, to be fair to you. “- Trump in an interview with WGN America.
“But we’ve done a task and we’re doing an amazing task. And, um, we’re going to be, um, we’re, in my opinion, completing the shift. “- Trump in an interview with a Detroit news station.
Deaths in the United States by COVID-19 exceed 200,000.
September 24 – “The Chinese virus is China, some call it coronavirus. Sounds like a great position in Italy, doesn’t it? No, he’s not from Italy. He got here from China, but this guy’s talking, we’re going to prevent it. If scientists say we avoid it, it will avoid it. No, we’re nothing definitive. . . . My plan is going to weigh the virus and we’re going to do it. Circulate the third, re-circulating the circular. ” Trump at a rally attended by an estimated crowd of thousands outdoors at an airport in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 25 – “[N] we’ve done a great job. And they will compare us to Europe and we have done very well. But now that Europe is exploding again, they no longer need to communicate it. “Trump at a rally attended by an estimated crowd of thousands outdoors at an airport in Newport News, Virginia.
The number of shown in the United States exceeds 7 million.
September 26 – “Europe has had a nearly 50% higher overmortality rate than the United States. You don’t have to listen to that, you don’t have to be told that . . . We’re going to weigh the virus. – Trump at a rally attended by an estimated crowd of several thousand outdoors in an airport hangar in Middletown, Pennsylvania (it’s about comparing excess mortality; see our article “Trump Promotes a Deceptive and Imperfect Statistic on Higher Mortality. “
September 28 : “And it is vital not to forget that as other younger, healthier people return to their paintings and we massively increase detection capacity, we will identify more asymptomatic and American cases in low-risk populations. undue alarm. The total number of instances is not the entire success metric. “- Trump in a speech at the White House.
September 29: “And now we’re a few weeks away from a vaccine. We’re already doing therapies. Fewer people die when they get sick. Many fewer people die. We did a wonderful job. “
“If necessary, I wear a mask. No, I don’t wear a mask like [Biden]. Every time he sees it, they give him a mask. He can communicate two hundred yards away — and is shown with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen. “- Trump in the presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trump’s family circle didn’t wear a mask in the debate.
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ANSWER: There is no evidence that Lincoln has said he was delayed in the nomination to allow the next president to be elected, as Harris said.