David 🛬🇬🇧 · @bingsuboy69
13th Mar 2020 from TwitLonger
Timeline of how Trump somehow made a pandemic worse:
2/10: Trump says without evidence that the coronavirus “dies with the hotter weather”
2/24: Trump baselessly claims the situation is “under control”
2/25: A senior White House official falsely claims the virus has been “contained”
2/25: Trump falsely claims Ebola mortality was “a virtual 100%”
2/25: Trump falsely claims “nobody had ever even heard of Ebola” in 2014
2/26: Trump wrongly says the coronavirus “is a flu”
2/26: Trump baselessly predicts the number of US cases is “going very substantially down” to “close to zero”
2/26: Trump wrongly says the flu death rate is “much higher” than Dr. Sanjay Gupta said
2/27: Trump baselessly hints at a “miracle”
2/28: Trump baselessly hints at an immigration link to the virus
2/29: Trump exaggerates Tim Cook’s comments about Apple and China
3/1: Azar wrongly says 3,600 people have been tested
3 2: Trump falsely claims “nobody knew” the number of US flu deaths
3/2: Trump says a vaccine is coming “relatively soon”
3/4: Trump falsely claims Obama impeded testing
3/4: Trump wrongly says as many as 100,000 people died of the flu in 1990
3/4: Trump says “the borders are automatically shut down”
3/4: Trump says he believes there was a coronavirus death in New York, though there hadn’t been one
3/4: Trump falsely claims the Obama administration “didn’t do anything” about H1N1
3/5: Trump misleadingly describes a Gallup poll relating to his handling of the virus
3/5: Trump wrongly claims the virus only hit the US “three weeks ago”
3/6: Azar wrongly claims there is no test shortage
3/6: As the number of cases and deaths in Italy rises, Trump says the number is “getting much better”
3/6: Trump falsely claims anybody can get tested if they want
3/6: Trump exaggerates the number of people on the Grand Princess cruise ship
3/6: Trump falsely says US coronavirus numbers “are lower than just about anybody”
3/6: Trump baselessly muses that “maybe” the coronavirus improved US jobs numbers
3/9: Pence says Trump’s “priority” was getting Americans off the ship
3/11: Trump issues a travel ban from EU to US, solving nothing
3/11: Feds inject trillions of dollars, rather than working on response
3/13: Trump prevents states from using Medicaid in order to stop coronavirus
List sourced from Reddit