On 22 Feb 2021, Aaron Thomas said the following...
I'm not going to defend everything Trump did or didn't do, but saying "He didn't have a plan for the pandemic" is a ridiculous attack.
Ok, let's try something else.
January 22, 2020: "We have it totally under control. It's one person
coming in from China. It's going to be just fine." (0 dead)
January 24, 2020: "China has been working very hard to contain the
Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!" (0 dead)
February 2, 2020: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China." (0 dead)
February 7, 2020 (in private): "It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu... This is deadly stuff" (0 dead)
February 10, 2020: "I think the virus is going to be -- it's going to be
fine." "Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little
warmer, it miraculously goes away." (0 dead)
February 24, 2020: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the
USA... the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!" (0 dead)
February 25, 2020: "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of
handling Coronavirus." "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." (0 dead)
February 26, 2020: "The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is
going to be down to close to zero." "We're going very substantially down,
not up." "Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're
finding very little problem. Very little problem." "This is a flu. This is like a flu." (0 dead)
February 27, 2020: "It's going to disappear. One day, it’s like a
miracle, it will disappear." (0 dead)
February 28, 2020: "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." (0
dead)
March 2, 2020: "You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could
have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?" "A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they're
happening very rapidly." (6 dead)
March 4, 2020: "Now, and this is just my hunch, and -- but based on a lot
of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild." "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." (11 dead)
March 5, 2020: "I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to
work." "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!"
(12 deaths)
March 6, 2020: "I think we're doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down... a tremendous job at keeping it down." "You have to be
calm. It'll go away." "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." "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." "I don't need to have the numbers double because of
one ship that wasn't our fault." (14 dead)
March 7, 2020: "No, I'm not concerned at all." (17 dead)
March 8, 2020: "We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus." (21 dead)
March 10, 2020: "Just stay calm. It will go away." (28 dead)
March 11, 2020: "It goes away... It's going away. We want it to go away
with very, very few deaths." (33 dead)
March 12, 2020: "You know, you see what's going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that's what we've done.
We've stopped it." (43 dead)
March 13, 2020: "I don't take responsibility at all." (51 dead)
March 14, 2020, rating his own COVID response: "I'd rate it a ten." (58 dead)
March 15, 2020: "Relax." “This is a very contagious virus. It’s
incredible. But it's something that we have tremendous control over." (70
dead)
March 16, 2020: "Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment -- try getting it yourselves." (97 dead)
March 17, 2020: "The only thing we haven't done well is get good press." "I felt like it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." (134 dead)
March 22, 2020: "WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF."
(588 dead)
March 24, 2020: "I'm also hopeful to have Americans working again by that Easter - that beautiful Easter day." "We’ve never closed down the country
for the flu. So you say to yourself, what is this all about?" (1020 dead)
March 25, 2020: "The faster we go back, the better it's going to be." (1350 dead)
March 26, 2020: "I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they'll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they're saying, 'Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'" (1767 dead)
March 29, 2020: "Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back
door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?" "Unfortunately the enemy is
death. It's death. A lot of people are dying. So it's very unpleasant." (3528 dead)
March 30, 2020: "Stay calm, it will go away. You know it -- you know it is going away, and it will go away, and we're going to have a great victory."
“I haven't heard about testing in weeks. We're testing more than any
other nation in the world. We've got these great tests...But I haven't
heard about testing being a problem." "We inherited a broken test — the
whole thing was broken." (4237 dead)
April 2, 2020: "Massive amounts of medical supplies... are being delivered directly to states... Some have insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?). The complainers should have been stocked up and ready long
before this crisis hit." (8170 dead)
April 6, 2020: "LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!" (14547 dead)
April 7, 2020: "So, you know, things are happening. It's a -- it's -- I
haven't seen bad. I've not seen bad." (17127 dead)
April 9, 2020, on his own COVID response: "I couldn't have done it any
better." (21480 dead)
April 13, 2020: "But I guess I'm doing OK, because, to the best of my knowledge, I'm the President of the United States, despite the things that
are said." (29685 dead)
April 22, 2020: "If [coronavirus] comes back though, it won't be coming
back in the form that it was, it will be coming back in smaller doses that we can contain... it's also possible it doesn't come back at all." (50155 dead)
April 23, 2020: "I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside
or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that." "So,
supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether its ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said, that hasn't been checked but
you're gonna test it. And then I said, supposing it brought the light inside the body, which you can either do either through the skin or some other
way..." (52620 dead)
April 27, 2020, in response to the influx in poison control calls about disinfectant: "I can't imagine why." (59436 dead)
April 29, 2020: "It's gonna go away, this is going to go away." (64062 dead)
May 3, 2020: "Look, we're going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to
100,000 people." (71150 dead)
May 5, 2020: "Well run States should not be bailing out poorly run States, using CoronaVirus as the excuse!" "I always felt 60, 65, 70, as horrible as that is. I mean, you’re talking about filling up Yankee Stadium with death! So I thought it was horrible. But it’s probably going to be somewhat higher than that." "There'll be more death, that the virus will pass, with or
without a vaccine. And I think we're doing very well on the vaccines but,
with or without a vaccine, it's going to pass, and we’re going to be back
to normal." (74747 dead)
May 8, 2020: "This is going to go away without a vaccine. It is going to go away. We are not going to see it again." (80709 dead)
May 9, 2020: "This is going to go away without a vaccine." (82250 dead)
May 11, 2020: "Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down
almost everywhere. Big progress being made!" "We have met the moment and we have prevailed." (84255 dead)
May 14, 2020: "Could be that testing's, frankly, overrated. Maybe it is overrated." "Don't forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world.
But why? Because we do more testing." (89344 dead)
May 15, 2020: "Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. And we're starting the process. In many cases, they don’t have vaccines and a virus or a flu comes and you fight through it." (91005 dead)
May 16, 2020: "We’ve done a GREAT job on Covid response, making all
Governors look good, some fantastic (and that's OK), but the Lamestream
Media doesn't want to go with that narrative, and the Do Nothing Dems
talking point is to say only bad about 'Trump'. I made everybody look
good, but me!" (92267 dead)
May 29, 2020: "We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization." (106399 dead)
June 15, 2020: "At some point this stuff goes away and it's going away." (119297 dead)
June 17, 2020: "It's fading away. It's going to fade away." (120840 dead)
June 18, 2020: "And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good." (121531 dead)
June 20, 2020: "Testing is a double-edged sword... When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases, so
I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.'" (122743 dead)
June 23, 2020: "It's going away." (124214 dead)
July 1, 2020: "I think we're going to be very good with the
coronavirus. I think that, at some point, that's going to sort of
disappear, I hope." (128660 dead)
Shall I go on?
Jeff.
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