CORONAVIRUS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Media should view this as a time of unity and strength. We have a common enemy, actually, an enemy of the World, the CoronaVirus. We must beat it as quickly and safely as possible. There is nothing more important to me than the life & safety of the United States!” –Donald […]
Category: Coronavirus
3/11/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My fellow Americans: Tonight, I want to speak with you about our nation’s unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world. Today, the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic… To keep new cases from entering our shores, we […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 2:18 pm […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to thank all of our Great Government officials on the CoronaVirus Task Force who are working around the clock, in response to the CoronaVirus. Continue to check https://t.co/boZM2NePJW for updates, and follow all recommendations that are available….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 2:17 pm […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….We have the greatest healthcare system, experts, scientists and doctors anywhere in the world. Together, we will PREVAIL!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 2:17 pm […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Together we are putting into policy a plan to prevent, detect, treat and create a vaccine against CoronaVirus to save lives in America and the world. America will get it done!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 1:52 pm […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Someone needs to tell the Democrats in Congress that CoronaVirus doesn’t care what party you are in. We need to protect ALL Americans!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 1:50 pm […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vanity Fair Magazine, which will soon be out of business, and their third rate Fake reporters, who make up sources which don’t exist, wrote yet another phony & boring hit piece. The facts are just the opposite. Our team is doing a great job with CoronaVirus!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 […]
3/11/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you Gavin. Team is doing a great job! https://t.co/gMeoMXT5Fe“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2020 9:08 am […]
3/10/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our CoronaVirus Team has been doing a great job. Even Democrat governors have been VERY complimentary!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2020 9:44 am […]
3/10/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This was something that came out of China, and it hit us and many other countries. You look at the numbers; I see the numbers with just by watching you folks. I see it — it’s over 100 different countries. And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I mean, there’s no sense of urgency. The American people, I think, want to know that their president is on top of this, understands it and that he’s being guided by science… And the American people are just saying wait a minute, what’s going on here? What’s happening?… And the other […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The BEST decision made was the toughest of them all – which saved many lives. Our VERY early decision to stop travel to and from certain parts of the world!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2020 8:16 am […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great job being done by the @VP and the CoronaVirus Task Force. Thank you!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2020 8:11 am […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, ‘The risk is low to the average American.’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2020 6:20 am […]
3/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 9, 2020 10:47 am […]
3/8/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus. We moved VERY early to close borders to certain areas, which was a Godsend. V.P. is doing a great job. The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to make us look bad. Sad!” […]
3/8/2020
ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: [Dr. Jon LaPook, chief medical correspondent for CBS News: “There’s a lot of confusion among people, and misinformation, surrounding face masks. Can you discuss that?”] Anthony Fauci: “The masks are important for someone who’s infected to prevent them from infecting someone else [with coronavirus]… Right now in the United States, people should not […]
3/6/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID/FEDERAL FUNDING/LEGISLATION: “Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 [H.R. 6074] Became law March 6, 2020 [signed into law by Donald Trump] Provided $8.3 billion to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the United States by funding vaccine and testing development.” -Nicholas Wu and Javier Zarracina, “All of the COVID-19 stimulus bills, visualized,” usatoday.com, […]
3/6/2020
CALIFORNIA/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Spoke to Governor @GavinNewsom early this morning about the cruise ship quarantined off the California Coast. CoronaVirus test kits have been delivered, testing is taking place now. https://t.co/Pqda00HVCC“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 6, 2020 10:47 am […]
3/6/2020
CORONAVIRUS/HHS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is FAKE NEWS that @HHSGov @SecAzar is ‘sidelined’ from the great job he is doing on the CoronaVirus Task Force. He has the total confidence of the @VP and myself, and is doing a fantastic job, as the numbers would indicate!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 6, 2020 10:38 am […]
3/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gallup just gave us the highest rating ever for the way we are handling the CoronaVirus situation. The April 2009-10 Swine Flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the U.S., was poorly handled. Ask MSDNC & lightweight Washington failure @RonaldKlain, who the President was then?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 5, 2020 3:34 […]
3/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With approximately 100,000 CoronaVirus cases worldwide, and 3,280 deaths, the United States, because of quick action on closing our borders, has, as of now, only 129 cases (40 Americans brought in) and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 5, […]
3/5/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’I want to commend the President for how he has handled the CoronaVirus situation, especially his early decision to shut down access into our Country from China, despite strong opposition to that decision.’ @SenTomCotton Thank you Tom!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 5, 2020 10:53 am […]
3/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work. This is just more Fake News and disinformation put out by the Democrats, in particular MSDNC. Comcast covers the CoronaVirus situation horribly, only looking to do harm to the incredible & successful effort being made!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 5, […]
3/4/2020
CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress has agreed to provide $8 Billion to fight Coronavirus! This means @CDCgov, @HHSGov, and @DHSgov will have the resources they need to Keep America Safe and keep the risk to workers and families very low. This is great news for our Health, our Economy, and our Nation!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March […]
3/4/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I think the 3.4 percent [global death rate] is really a false number… So, if we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better…But again, they don’t […]
3/3/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We made an early decision based on a little bit of luck, I suspect, but that was the original decision on China itself. And China, in all fairness to them, they never blamed us. It was, you know, a tough decision for them, but they fully understood. They were very reasonable about […]
3/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e’re working very hard to expedite the longer process of developing a vaccine. We’re also moving with maximum speed to develop therapies so that we can help people recover as quickly as possible. We have a lot of recovery going on. We want to see if we can advance that. It’s likely […]
3/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We had a great meeting today with a lot of the great [pharmaceutical] companies and they’re going to have vaccines. I think relatively soon and they’re going to have something that makes you better and that’s going to actually take place, we think, even sooner.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: […]
3/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And so, what, look, here, we knew this was coming. We knew that this was coming. Back as far as January. They didn’t even begin to prepare the testing kits. I mean, this is something that is kind of elementary. We talked about the testing kits. We’re now going to get […]
3/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: [Jake Tapper: “What, if anything, do you think you would be doing differently if you were president right now? “] “I know what I would have done differently, what we did in the Ebola crisis. They used — I heard the vice president say they set up an office in the White House. […]
3/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We knew that this [coronavirus] was coming. Back as far as January. They didn’t even begin to prepare the testing kits… Donald Trump said just several days ago this was a Democratic hoax. What in God’s name is he talking about? Has he no shame?” -Joe Biden as quoted by Devan Cole, “Biden […]
2/29/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hours after officials confirmed the first death in the country from the coronavirus, President Trump moved on Saturday to calm public fears and demonstrate aggressive action against the illness, including by issuing new restrictions on foreign travel. Presiding over an abruptly announced news conference in the White House briefing room and flanked […]
2/29/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[O]ur relationship with China is very good. Maybe it’s closer because of what’s happened here, because it was — you know, in a certain way, this can bring the world closer, if you want to know. It can really do that.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members […]
2/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The stock market is swooning. Consumers are stockpiling masks and antibacterial gels. President Trump’s response to a global epidemic has done little to quell fears. In the right-wing media universe, however, the commotion over the coronavirus is hardly a crisis for the White House. Instead, it’s just another biased attack on […]
2/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump complained on Friday [2-28-20] that Democrats and the news media were trying to scare Americans about the coronavirus to score political points against him but asserted that the outbreak had been relatively limited because of his action to stem infections…Speaking on the White House lawn before heading to South Carolina […]
2/28/20
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right?… One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation… And […]
2/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No one takes the president’s word for these things. He at a minimum exaggerates everything, and the idea that he’s going to stand there and say ‘everything’s fine, don’t worry?’ Who’s going to believe that? Let the experts speak like we did in our administration. Let the experts take this [coronavirus […]
2/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, & anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER & FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus. Dems called it VERY wrong!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
2/28/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of ‘Trump’.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 28, […]
2/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Diagnosis positive: @CNN is infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. I’m calling out CNN for irresponsibly politicizing what should be a unifying battle against a virus that doesn’t choose sides.’ @trish_regan @FoxNews Like I say, they are Fake News!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 27, 2020 10:41 pm […]
2/27/2020
CDC/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations and thank you to our great Vice President & all of the many professionals doing such a fine job at CDC & all other agencies on the Coronavirus situation. Only a very small number in U.S., & China numbers look to be going down. All countries working well together!” –Donald Trump, […]
2/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting their time on the Impeachment Hoax, & anything they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early boarder & flight closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with the Coronavirus. Dems called it very wrong!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
2/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Anti-Trump Network @CNN doing whatever it can to stoke a national Coronavirus panic. The far left Network pretty much ignoring anyone who they interview who doesn’t blame President Trump.’ @trish_regan @FoxNews Media refuses to discuss the great job our professionals are doing!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 27, 2020 8:53 pm […]
2/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the end, President Donald Trump got a coronavirus czar — without having to call it a czar. Vice President Mike Pence, whom Trump appointed Wednesday to lead his coronavirus response, announced a global health official as the ‘White House coronavirus response coordinator’ — installing a czar-like figure under him to […]
2/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/HHS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House announced Thursday [2-27-20] that they had named a coronavirus ‘coordinator’ to lead response to the health crisis. Ambassador Debbie Birx, who serves as the U.S. government’s leader for combatting HIV/AIDS globally, will report to Vice President Mike Pence, the administration’s point person for the response. She will also […]
2/27/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a situation with the virus. We’ve done a great job. The press won’t give us credit for it… And actually, the Democrats said I was a racist. Not from black-people standpoint, but from Asian-people standpoint, from Chinese-people standpoint. They said I was a racist because I closed our country to […]
2/26/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]hen you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done… It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in […]
2/26/2020
CDC/CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! @CDCgov…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 26, 2020 8:03 am […]
2/26/2020
CDC/CORONAVIRUS/INDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just landed. India was great, trip very successful. Heading to the White House. Meetings and calls scheduled today. @CDCgov, @SecAzar and all doing a great job with respect to Coronavirus! Briefing this afternoon.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 26, 2020 6:39 am […]
2/26/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’U.S. acted on the Coronavirus very, very quickly.’ Gordon Chang @IngrahamAngle” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 26, 2020 2:19 am […]
2/26/2020
CDC/CORONAVIRUS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump named Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday [2-26-20] to coordinate the government’s response to the coronavirus, even as he repeatedly played down the danger to the United States of a widespread domestic outbreak. The president’s announcement, at a White House news conference, followed mounting bipartisan criticism that the administration’s […]
2/25/2020
CDC/CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus, including the very early closing of our borders to certain areas of the world. It was opposed by the Dems, ‘too soon’, but turned out to be the correct decision. No matter how well we do, however, the…..” –Donald Trump, […]
2/25/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Democrats talking point is that we are doing badly. If the virus disappeared tomorrow, they would say we did a really poor, and even incompetent, job. Not fair, but it is what it is. So far, by the way, we have not had one death. Let’s keep it that way!” –Donald Trump, […]
2/25/2020
CHUCK SCHUMER/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is complaining, for publicity purposes only, that I should be asking for more money than $2.5 Billion to prepare for Coronavirus. If I asked for more he would say it is too much. He didn’t like my early travel closings. I was right. He is incompetent!” –Donald Trump, […]
2/25/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has privately expressed frustration in recent days about some of the ways his administration is confronting a spreading coronavirus outbreak, according to people familiar with the conversations. Publicly, he has expressed optimism that the virus is ‘going to go away.’ Trump was initially upset that some Americans who tested […]
2/25/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [2-25-20] predicted the coronavirus is ‘going to go away’ despite warnings from Democrats that his White House is asleep amid cresting fears in Washington that the outbreak could spark a pandemic. The President maintained his sunny optimism about the virus that is showing signs of spreading around […]
2/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 24, 2020 4:42 pm […]
2/24/2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Monday [2-24-20] sent lawmakers an urgent $2.5 billion plan to address the deadly coronavirus outbreak, whose rapid spread and threat to the global economy rocked financial markets. The White House budget office said the funds are for vaccines, treatment and protective equipment. The request was immediately slammed by […]
2/23/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There is an increasing probability of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls.” -Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, as quoted by Jonathan Swan and […]
2/18/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: Some people don’t seem to trust the data coming out of China. Are you worried about that?] “Look, I know this: President Xi loves the people of China, he loves his country, and he’s doing a very good job with a very, very tough situation.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump […]
2/13/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e’re working on it very closely. I spoke to President Xi two days ago. They’re working on it very professionally. It’s a problem, we think and we hope, based on all signs that the problem goes away in April because — which is not too far down the road, because heat kills […]
2/10/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control. I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that’s a beautiful date to look forward to. But […]
2/10/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape though. We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and […]
2/7/2020
CORONAVIRUS: [Bob Woodward: “What was President Xi saying yesterday?”] “Well, we were talking mostly about the virus, and I think he’s going to have it in good shape, but you know it’s a very tricky situation. It [coronavirus] goes through air, Bob, that’s always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you don’t have […]
2/7/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “[Question from reporter: Are you concerned that China is covering up the full extent of coronavirus?] No. China is working very hard. Late last night, I had a very good talk with President Xi, and we talked about — mostly about the coronavirus. They’re working really hard, and I think they […]
2/5/2020
CORONAVIRUS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican and Democratic U.S. senators will introduce legislation on Friday [2-7-20] seeking to reaffirm the country’s commitment to global health amid the coronavirus crisis, including reestablishing a panel – similar to one disbanded by President Donald Trump – charged with preparing for pandemics. Republican Senator Mitt Romney and Democrat Chris Murphy will […]
2/4/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/STATE OF THE UNION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Protecting Americans’ health also means fighting infectious diseases. We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in China. My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in State of the […]
2/2/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Well, we pretty much shut it [coronavirus] down coming in from China. We have a tremendous relationship with China, which is a very positive thing. Getting along with China, getting along with Russia getting along with these countries.” -Donald Trump, “President Trump sits down with Sean Hannity for Super Bowl interview,” foxnews.com, […]
2/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Feb. 1, 2020 5:01 […]
1/31/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of all aliens who were physically present within the People’s Republic of China, excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, during the 14-day period preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States is hereby suspended.” -Donald Trump, […]
1/31/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have, right now, a crisis with the coronavirus. This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia – and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.” -Joe Biden as quoted by Trevor Hunnicutt, “Biden Slams Trump for Cutting Health Programs before Coronavirus Outbreak,” […]
1/30/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now we’re working very strongly with China on the coronavirus — that’s a new thing that a lot of people are talking about. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as some people think it could be. But we’re working very closely with them and with a lot of other people and a […]
1/29/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just received a briefing on the Coronavirus in China from all of our GREAT agencies, who are also working closely with China. We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments. We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 29, 2020 […]
1/29/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I think our relationship [with China] has never been better. We’re very much involved with them, right now, on the virus that’s going around. We’re working very closely. I spoke to President Xi. We’re working very closely with China.” -White House, “Remarks by President Trump at a Signing Ceremony for the United […]
1/27/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are in very close communication with China concerning the virus. Very few cases reported in USA, but strongly on watch. We have offered China and President Xi any help that is necessary. Our experts are extraordinary!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 27, 2020 9:56 am […]
1/27/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[President Trump is] the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health challenge… The outbreak of a new coronavirus, which has already infected more than 2,700 people and killed over 80 in China, will get worse before it gets better. Cases have been confirmed in a dozen countries, […]
1/24/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 24, 2020 4:18 pm […]
1/22/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Maria Bartiromo: “So, do you think that people should be worried [about coronavirus] when they’re traveling in the airport?”] “No, not at all. I don’t think they should be worried. This is one person out of tens of millions of people that travel and we just announced it yesterday, and it’s all taken care […]
1/22/2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Maria Bartiromo: “What about this coronavirus?”] “Yes, we have one person right now, as you know, quarantined, and we got lucky, actually. But, we’re in great shape. We have — CDC did a fantastic job. Immediately got the person and we think we’re in good shape. And I think China’s in good shape too, […]
1/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the final days of December, and no later than January 1, a warning [about coronavirus] would have appeared in the President’s Daily Brief—the classified summary of international developments distilled from all intelligence agencies and passed to the president and a handful of advisers. ‘It was in the briefings by the beginning […]
10/25/2019
[Note: On Oct. 25, 2019, Joe Biden retweeted an Oct. 24, 2020 Washington Post article, “None of these 195 countries — the U.S. included — is fully prepared for a pandemic, report says,” along with his own comment as shown below. Although COVID-19 was about two months away at the time of Biden’s quote, we decided to […]