Trump’s Statements About the Coronavirus

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-the-coronavirus/

“This is a pandemic,” President Donald Trump said at a March 17 press conference. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

While it’s not possible to know what Trump “felt,” there’s no doubt that Trump had minimized the threat of the new coronavirus for weeks in statement after statement.