CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But once the virus came in — once the plague, as I call it, came in, I said, ‘How did they let that happen? How did they let that happen?’ And how come it didn’t go into other sections of China? Why did they block it from leaving Wuhan but they didn’t block it from going to the rest of the world, including the United States? Why is that? Beijing doesn’t have it; other places don’t have it. So why is it that it was blocked very effectively from leaving that area and going into China, but it went out to the rest of the world, including the United States? And why didn’t they let us go in and help them fix it? So I’m very disappointed in China.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020