Nostra
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None of those quotes back up your claim he said it was like the common flu. Try reading them next time.Fake News. I can find no evidence that he said any such thing.Don't expect Trump to gives two shits. When the first Americans were dying of Covid in Washington on Feb 28th, Donald Trump was telling supporters in a Rally in North Carolina that it was just the common flu...I must have read this wrong...keep calm and carry on sounds like the truth and not a lie. I must be a deplorable to miss your brilliant point here.
I know you heard "Keep calm and it will all just disappear, like magic!
Did you know the flu actually kills people?
Before this is over, more americans will have died of the coronavirus, than died from combat in WWII.
Pot calling the kettle black? You have yet to supply a link and pull quote to support your unsupported claim.... He was lying and he knew it...
You cannot find anywhere where Trump said is was only like the common flu? Guess you ignored a lot of stuff in the news. Trump tried to downplay this and compare it to the regular flu. He didn't say that it was deadly (other to than Woodward) until he got caught with his pants down.
All The Times Trump Compared Covid-19 To The Flu, Even After He Knew Covid-19 Was Far More Deadly
"We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don't turn the country off," Trump said in March.www.forbes.com
February 26:
"The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year," Trump said during a Coronavirus Task Force briefing." And, so far, if you look at what we have with the 15 people and their recovery, one is — one is pretty sick but hopefully will recover, but the others are in great shape. But think of that: 25,000 to 69,000." Trump then added, "And again, 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.”
February 27:
"And you know what? If we were doing a bad job, we should also be criticized. But we have done an incredible job. We're going to continue," Trump said from inside the Cabinet Room. "It's going to disappear. One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear."
February 29:
"We've taken the most aggressive actions to confront the coronavirus. They are the most aggressive taken by any country. And we're the number-one travel destination anywhere in the world, yet we have far fewer cases of the disease than even countries with much less travel or a much smaller population," said Trump on February 29th, the day which the U.S. officially reported its first coronavirus death.
March 9:
"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year," the president tweeted shortly before 11 am. "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!"