CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don’t turn the country off, I mean every year… We lose much more than that to automobile accidents. We didn’t call up the automobile companies, say, ‘Stop making cars. We don’t want any cars anymore.” We have to get back to work…
I would love to have it [the country] open by Easter. I will tell you that right now. I would love to have that. It’s such an important day for other reasons, but I’ll make it an important day for this too. I would love to have the country opened up and they’re just raring to go by Easter…
But our country has to get back to work, otherwise it’s going to be very hard to start it up again.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Town Hall Transcript March 24: Trump Wants to Restart the Economy by Easter,” rev.com, Mar. 24, 2020