CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “Do you know how hard it was for me to say, ‘We’ll shut it down’? We have the greatest economy in history. We’re blowing away China. China was supposed to overtake us 10 years ago. 2019 they were going to overtake us. They were so far behind. We left them in the dust. Now all of a sudden we have to shut it down.
But we saved, remember, 2.2 million people were going to die [from coronavirus]. We saved 2 million people and now we’re opening up and it was a great honor. We had such incredible people. Ventilators, what we did with ventilators. We didn’t have ventilators and now we’re making them for the entire world. We have all we can use in our country.”
-Donald Trump via NBC News, “Trump Delivers Remarks At New Hampshire Rally | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Oct. 25, 2020