9/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “[W]hat I said to Woodward was actually good, I said calm, we need calm, we don’t need panic [about coronavirus]. They want me to jump up and down and start screaming, is everyone going to die, is everyone going to — that’s not what leadership is about. I’m a cheerleader for the country. We need calm, that’s all I’ve said. And by the way, that was done after. That was done after I had already banned China from coming into the country…

Well, go out and look at the great leaders of the world. Winston Churchill stood on the rooftops in London very calm, making speeches, Winston Churchill. You want calmness, you don’t want somebody that’s going to be jumping up and down. I could do that too, I could jump up and down, say oh this is terrible, this is terrible. We want strength, we want leadership and we don’t want panic.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Jeanine Pirro Interviews Donald Trump at The White House – September 12, 2020,” factba.se, Sep. 12, 2020