March 19
WHAT TRUMP SAID AT THIS TIME:
"I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." (To Bob Woodward)
New daily cases: 4,651
"I said it’s going away and it is going away."
April 3
New daily cases: 32,076
"Today I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization."
April 14
New daily cases: 25,709
“It’s going to fade away.”
June 17
New cases: 24,001
"Look, we're going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000 people."
May 3
New daily cases: 25,707
"Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere. Big progress being made!"
May 11
New daily cases: 18,371
"Cases are going up in the US because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!"
June 23
New daily cases: 33,447
"I think we are in a good place."
July 7
New daily cases: 51,728
"They are dying. That's true. And you — it is what it is." (To Axios’ Jonathan Swan)
August 3
New daily cases: 49,713
"We have rounded the final turn."
September 10
New daily cases: 37,581
"I don’t wear a mask like him [Joe Biden]."
September 29
New daily cases: 36,947
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"We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine."
January 22
New daily cases: 0
"It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear."
February 27
"The vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low."
March 11
New daily cases: 509
New COVID-19 cases
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Jan. 22
"Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life."
October 5
New daily cases: 38,133
"I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it."
October 7
New daily cases: 50,602
“We have rounded the final turn.”
New cases: 37,581
“I don’t wear a mask like him.”
New cases: 36,947
"This is deadly stuff." (To Bob Woodward)
February 7
"Now we have tested over 40 million people. But by so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless."
July 4
New daily cases: 54,338
"I don’t agree with the statement that if everybody wears a mask, everything disappears."
July 19
New daily cases: 64,260
“The United States has among the lowest case-fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world." (The US had the 10th-lowest fatality rate of the 20 most impacted nations.)
August 27
New daily cases: 43,984
New daily cases: 24,001
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"Even without the vaccines, we're rounding the turn. It's going to be over."
October 25
New daily cases: 65,687
March 24
“I'm also hopeful to have Americans working again by that Easter - that beautiful Easter day.”
New cases: 10,769
“I said it’s going away and it is going away.”
New cases: 32,076
“Today I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization.”
New cases: 25,709
“LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”
April 17
New cases: 32,013
“Look, we're going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000 people.”
New cases: 25,707
“Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere. Big progress being made!”
New cases: 18,371
“Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!”
New cases: 33,447
New cases: 51,728
"They are dying. That's true. And you — it is what it is.”
New cases: 49,713
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
New cases: 0
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus... this is their new hoax.”
February 28
“We don’t want everybody taking this test; it’s totally unnecessary. And this will pass. This will pass through, and we’re going to be even stronger for it.”
March 13
New cases: 1,072
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"This is deadly stuff."(To Bob Woodward)
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“Look, we're going to lose anywhere from 75K, 80K to 100K people.”
May. 3
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Mar. 24
"It’s going to fade away."
Jun. 17
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Jul. 19
"They are dying. That's true. And you — it is what it is."
"The United States has among the lowest case-fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world." (The US had the 10th-lowest fatality rate of the 20 most impacted nations.)
Aug. 27
Oct. 5
“I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it.”
Oct. 7
New cases: 50,602
Oct. 25