CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t view it as an act of God; I would view it as is something that just surprised the whole world. And if people would have known about it… It could have been stopped right where it came from — China…
So we slashed red tape to develop vaccines and therapies as fast as it can possibly be done — long before anybody else was even thinking about doing this.
Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. Nobody has ever seen anything like this before.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Mar. 19, 2020