# COVID-19 response in Trump’s own word's **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 16, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608 "2020-03-16T22:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/1 "2020-03-16T22:22:20Z")
(From today’s Daily Kos): > [@](#): > > Trump’s response to the coronavirus (his words): > January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” > NO TEST KITS > February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” > NO TEST KITS > February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” > NO TEST KITS > February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” > NO TEST KITS > February 25: “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” > NO TEST KITS > February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” > NO TEST KITS > February 26: “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” > NO TEST KITS > February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” > NO TEST KITS > February 28: “We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” > NO TEST KITS > March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” > NO TEST KITS > March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” > NO TEST KITS > March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” > NO TEST KITS > March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” > NO TEST KITS > March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” > NO TEST KITS > March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” > NO TEST KITS > March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” > NO TEST KITS > March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” > NO TEST KITS > March 6: “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.” > NO TEST KITS > March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” > NO TEST KITS > March 9: “This blindsided the world.” > NO TEST KITS > March 9: "The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant.” > NO TEST KITS > March 10: “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” > NO TEST KITS ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/2 "2020-03-16T22:27:31Z")
That really tells the whole story, doesn’t it? Thanks for posting such a succinct summary of the [DEL]clusterfuck[/DEL] situation. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/3 "2020-03-18T04:32:54Z")
I should not read stuff like that just after eating. Don’t know if I have enough anti-nausea meds to handle it. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/4 "2020-03-18T05:10:27Z")
Holy fuck. Any of the past presidents since I’ve voted in the late '80s would’ve called in the task force on New Year’s Day at the very least. The wimpiest man in the world who lives off insults and inherited money was never equipped to be a leader in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/5 "2020-03-18T11:53:23Z")
And now that Trump’s realized we have a crisis on our hands, [Fox News has turned on a dime](https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1240131226268323842). Oceania has _always_ been at war with Eastasia. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/6 "2020-03-18T12:05:29Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Holy fuck. Any of the past presidents since I’ve voted in the late '80s would’ve called in the task force on New Year’s Day at the very least. Well, we used to have a Pandemic Response Team. It disappeared in 2018 and hasn’t been replaced. Regardless of it being gone because they quit or were fired, the point remains it’s gone. > [@RTFirefly](#): > > And now that Trump’s realized we have a crisis on our hands, [Fox News has turned on a dime](https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1240131226268323842). Oceania has _always_ been at war with Eastasia. At least they changed their mind. I’ve been surprised at how many right wingers I know that are on board with what’s been going on lately. I assume this is why they all seemed to have made a 180 from ‘it’s just the flu’ to ‘yeah, I guess we have to deal with this’. I’m not entirely sure why Fox and Friends made the 180, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/7 "2020-03-18T13:16:59Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > And now that Trump’s realized we have a crisis on our hands, [Fox News has turned on a dime](https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1240131226268323842). Oceania has _always_ been at war with Eastasia. Yeah yesterday I heard a clip of him talking at a press meeting and he said “I’ve called this a pandemic before anyone else was using that word.” Words cannot express how angry this makes me. This man should not be President. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/8 "2020-03-18T13:24:31Z")
So, I guess NO POLITICS was just a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/9 "2020-03-18T15:32:16Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > So, I guess NO POLITICS was just a suggestion. More what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/10 "2020-03-18T17:33:06Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > So, I guess NO POLITICS was just a suggestion. In practice, it’s impossible to keep politics out of it. Our nation’s handling of the situation is a necessary part of the conversation. Also, people are are really angry at the Trump administration, and with good reason, and expressions of that anger are going to come out. It’s up to to mods how strictly they enforce the rule, and personally I hope they’re not strict due to the reasons stated above. Having the rule in place gives them needed backup if they need to clamp down on a discussion that’s gone off the rails. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/11 "2020-03-18T17:42:00Z")
Depends on the thread. Anything identified as “Breaking News” or “Factual Only” will respectively have MPSIMS or GQ rules applied (i.e.: no politics). ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-response-in-trump-s-own-words/849608/12 "2020-03-18T22:43:10Z")
Politics? What politics? A minority of US voters in a rigged system had a luzer installed, a so-called businessman who promised to run the nation like a business. That means cutting quality and wages, over-rewarding investors, firing under-producers and bothersome folks, lining his own pockets, and never admitting error in a [del]bankruptcy filing[/del] kilobuck bailout proposal. No politics, only the usual. Ambrose Bierce defined the presidency as “the greased pig in the field game of American politics.” How appropriate.