Here's what that looked like in real time Monday, shortly before close.

x The Dow, down 2700 points today alone, is now in the green by only 3.8% for Trump's term in office so far pic.twitter.com/ucMgC3D9Fu — Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) March 16, 2020

During the press conference, Trump announced new nationwide guidelines to stem the spread of the virus, including recommending against gatherings of more than 10 people. Some media seemed impressed with Trump's seriousness—as in, the fact that this is a serious and deadly problem seems to have finally breached the barricade to his brain.

"Trump has been a different person in this presser," claimed the Washington Post's Aaron Blake.

Um, sorry, but no.

One reporter revisited Trump's "I don't take responsibility at all" statement from Friday. "Does the buck stop with you, Mr. President?" he asked.

"Normally yeah but this has never been done before," Trump responded.

So, no, not different. Indeed the same person who took no responsibility "at all" last week. Trump claimed of the record-setting contagion that “a month ago [he’d] never even thought about it."

And how about his repeated claim that “everything is under control” and “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA” and “we have tremendous control”? Not so much anymore.

"That's not under control for any place in the world,” Trump said of the virus Monday, denying that he was really talking about the virus when he claimed things were “under control.”

Sounds just like a perfect 10.