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April 7, 2020 – Trump blamed the World Health Organization for what he called its slow response to the pandemic.
The WHO, however, warned of a “public health emergency of international concern” weeks before Trump declared a national emergency.
“They called it wrong,” he said. “They really, they missed the call.”
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April 7, 2020 – Trump ousted the chairman of a watchdog panel that oversaw how the Trump administration managed $2 trillion in coronavirus relief.
Glenn Fine, the acting Pentagon inspector general, was chosen in March to head the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.
Fine was the second inspector general in a week to be fired by the president, after the April 3 firing of whistle-blower Michael Atkinson.
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April 6, 2020 – Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro warned the White House as early as January that the coronavirus posed a great threat to the United States.
Navarro said, “the lives of millions of Americans” could be imperiled by the pandemic.
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April 5, 2020 – The U.S. stockpiled 29 million hydroxychloroquine pills, even though health experts doubted its efficacy and warned about its dangerous side effects.
Trump pushed for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.
“What do I know?” he said at a news briefing. “I’m not a doctor. But I have common sense.”
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April 4, 2020 – After Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, confirmed there was no evidence that hydroxychloroquine could fight the coronavirus — or that it was safe — Trump said he was considering it for himself.
“I may take it, OK? I may take it," he said. “And I’ll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it.”
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April 1, 2020 – In an interview on CNN, Mike Pence said Trump had never “belittled” the coronavirus threat.
Trump made the same argument at his daily briefing. “I knew how bad it was,” he said.
Both statements contradicted what Trump had said in the past, as when he claimed on Jan. 22 that “we’re not at all worried about the virus. And we have it totally under control.”
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March 31, 2020 – Trump said his impeachment “probably” diverted his attention from dealing with the crisis more swiftly, a claim first made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“Did it divert my attention?” Trump said. “I think I’m getting A-pluses for the way I handled myself during a phony impeachment. Okay? It was a hoax. But certainly, I guess, I thought of it.”
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March 30, 2020 – The New York Times noted that "President Trump is a ratings hit.
Since reviving the daily White House briefing, Mr. Trump and his coronavirus updates have attracted an average audience of 8.5 million on cable news, roughly the viewership of the season finale of The Bachelor.”
Trump quoted this in a tweet adding, “The numbers are continuing to rise…”
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March 29, 2020 – Trump said that as many as 2.2 million Americans could have died “if we didn’t do what we’re doing.”
He added that if the U.S. was able to limit COVID-19 deaths to between 100,000 and 200,000 people, “we altogether have done a very good job.”
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March 27, 2020 – Trump boasted that “We’ve now established great testing. … We’ve tested now more than anybody.”
The U.S. did test more people for the coronavirus than South Korea, but South Koreans were tested much earlier, conducted five times as many tests per capita than the U.S., and had a per capita death toll twenty-five times lower than the United States death toll per capita.
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