CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TWITTER: [Reporter: “can you clarify your position on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine after you retweeted a video making claims that it is effective?”] “I wasn’t making claims. It’s recommendations of many other peoples and — people, including doctors. Many doctors think it is extremely successful — the hydroxychloroquine — coupled with the zinc and perhaps the azithromycin. But many doctors think it’s extremely good, and some people don’t…
I happen to believe in it. I would take it. As you know, I took it for a 14-day period, and I’m here. Right? I’m here. I happen to think it’s — it works in the early stages. I think frontline medical people believe that too — some, many. And so we’ll take a look at it.
But the one thing we know: It’s been out for a long time, that particular formula, and that’s what — essentially, what it is, the pill. And it’s been for malaria, lupus, and other things.
It — it’s safe. It doesn’t cause problems. I had no problem. I had absolutely no problem, felt no different. Didn’t feel good, bad, or indifferent. I — and I tested, as you know. It didn’t — it didn’t get me, and it’s not going to hopefully hurt anybody.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020