5/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A permanent lockdown [for coronavirus] is not a strategy for a healthy state or a healthy country. Our country wasn’t meant to be shut down. We did the right thing, but now it’s time to open it up. A never-ending lockdown would invite a public health calamity. To protect the health of our people, we must have a functioning economy. And as I said, and I’ll say it 100 times, we’re going to have an incredible year next year, right at the beginning. Even our fourth quarter is going to be very good. There’s a tremendous pent-up demand…

Americans who need and want to return to work should not be vilified; they should be supported. Unlike many politicians and journalists, for those who earn a living with their own two hands, working remotely is just not an option.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Ford Rawsonville Components Plant,” whitehouse.gov, May 21, 2020