CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “To battle a virus, my administration marshaled every resource at our nation’s disposal: public, private, military, economic, scientific, and industrial — all at your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing ramp-up since the Second World War…
In every generation, through every challenge and hardship and danger, America has risen to the task. We have met the moment, and we have prevailed…
[W]e’ve prevailed on testing, is what I’m referring to. That was with regard to testing. You never prevail when you have 90,000 people [dead], 100,000 people; when you have 80,000 people, as of today; when you have this — the kind of death you’re talking about, when you have potentially millions of people throughout the world that are dying. What I’m talking about is: We have a great testing capacity now.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Press Briefing on COVID-19 Testing,” whitehouse.gov, May 11, 2020