CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We just got hit by a vicious virus that should have never been allowed to escape China. They should have stopped it at the source. They didn’t do that. A hundred and eighty-four countries have been devastated by it, including China, by the way. Because I looked at their numbers, and their numbers are terrible. And it’s just a very tough situation for the people of our country. All the loss, the death, it’s a terrible thing.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Governor Murphy of New Jersey,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 30, 2020