CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “The FDA has said hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of a hospital setting or outside of a research study.”] “No, that’s not what I was told. No… There was a false study done where they gave it to very sick people — extremely sick people, people that were ready to die. It was given by, obviously, not friends of the administration… So, immediately, when it came out, they gave a lot of false information, just so you understand. Great studies came out of Italy on hydroxy. You know what I’m talking about, right?…
It’s gotten a bad reputation only because I’m promoting it. So I’m obviously a very bad promoter. If anybody else were promoting it, they’d say, ‘This is the greatest thing ever.’”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, May 19, 2020