A brief history of Trump's coronavirus remarks

January 22 “We have it totally under control.” Washington Post

January 30 “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it. So that I can assure you.” Politico

February 7 “Nothing is easy, but [Chinese President Xi Jinping] …will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone.” FactCheck.org

February 10 “I think the virus is going to be — it’s going to be fine.” FactBa.se

February 14 “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.” WhiteHouse.gov

February 19 “I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.” Reuters

February 24 “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Twitter

February 26 “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low…When 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." WhiteHouse.gov

February 28 “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” CNN

February 28 "Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus...This is their new hoax" NBC News

March 5 “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.” Twitter

March 7 “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not. No, we’ve done a great job.” USA Today

March 9 “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!” Twitter

March 10 “As you know, it’s about 600 cases, it’s about 26 deaths, within our country. And had we not acted quickly, that number would have been substantially more.” WhiteHouse.gov

March 11 “I think we’re going to get through it very well.” WhiteHouse.gov

March 14 “SOCIAL DISTANCING!” Twitter

March 15 “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.” Vox

March 16 “If you’re talking about the virus, no, that’s not under control for any place in the world...I was talking about what we’re doing is under control, but I’m not talking about the virus.” WhiteHouse.gov

March 17 "This is a pandemic...I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." New York Times

March 18 "The big day is — the big thing we can do is get rid of this horrible — I call it the “unseen” — the unseen enemy. You call it — there’s a thousand different terms for it, but whatever — it snuck up on us." WhiteHouse.gov

March 20 "What do you say to Americans who are watching right now and are scared?"



"I say you're a terrible reporter." White House Briefing (YouTube)

March 22 "Romney's in isolation? Gee...that's too bad." Twitter VIdeo