An image on social media falsely purports to show a tweet from Donald Trump in 2009, saying he “would never let thousands of Americans die from a pandemic while in office.” There is no evidence Trump ever posted that tweet.
At a White House briefing March 19, President Donald Trump said, “Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion.” But that’s simply not the case.
President Trump said on March 17, “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” But he had minimized the threat of the new coronavirus for weeks. We compile some of those past statements in this video.
President Trump now says, “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” We don’t know what he "felt,” but there’s no doubt that he had minimized the threat of the new coronavirus for weeks. We compiled his public statements.
