Fact check: Trump tries to erase the memory of him downplaying the coronavirus

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Fact check: President Trump says his tone on coronavirus hasn't changed much at all. But from January until last week, Trump consistently minimized the risk the coronavirus posed to the country.

Trump was asked Tuesday about his change in tone. He responded by claiming that his tone hadn't changed much at all."I mean, I have seen that, where people actually liked it. But I didn't feel different," he said at a White House press briefing."I've always known, this is a real -- this is a real -- this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries...

Read MoreOn Monday, Trump acknowledged that the situation is"bad," that the virus is not under control, that the country might well be heading into a recession, and that American life would not get back to normal for months. He had not made such statements before.Trump has pointed to his late-January decision to restrict travel from China as evidence that he had always considered the situation"urgent." But he certainly had not clearly communicated that he felt such urgency.

 

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Give him a Nobel Prize.

Because he was playing it safe and putting on a calm face to down play everything in hopes of avoiding a panic. However,CNN on the other hand would panic the hell outta everyone w/ their bull shit news.

So he's a liar

Preach!!! You are so right. Him and his whole adminstration blew it off like it was nothing and now that want to change face.

Trump is a failure and dangerously incompetent

Please please please please I beg you to shut up.

Because he’s trying not to cause mass hysteria unlike your network! Wake up!

Stupid cn and the chances ofcontractingthevirusis stoll verry low.

Yup and I posted an article like this on Facebook and they censored it

PatriciaBuress We know he's a LIAR. Roll the FOOTAGE.

Keep reminding the American public of these critical facts! DO NOT ALLOW the president to deflect or shift blame to any country/person. This is a man that has NEVER been accountable for his horrid actions. America- do not be fooled.

He's full of s*** always has been always will be

The LIAR in chief as always...

internet got receipts bruh

Fact Check, as a leader, preventing panic is part of your job. A plus Mr. President! Fact check part 2! Your network is supposed to report the news, OBJECTIVELY! Not push an agenda...D minus at best weseeyou

If trump said it, it’s a lie.

Changed his tone? “Chinese flu”?

I have to agree he should have preached panic in the streets from the beginning Should have told the YOUNGER crowd YOU are most at risk Wonder how that would have changed things No need to answer pretty sure that would be the wrong thing to have done

Everyone except his sychophants who knows it but won’t admit it know the truth. Trump needs to be ignored.

Fake news!!!

Because he is a complete idiot

Now your fact checking his tone? He has been giving daily briefings with all of his key people, and taking questions. Yet all you report on is stupid shit like this. He hasn’t hasn’t backed away from any of this. You’re doing a disservice to us all.

He lives in the moment. His brain is broken.

Still no fact check from Sunday's debate...

Democrats didn’t even talk about it. Remember. In January Trump formed the coronavirus task force. Democrats were only talking about impeachment.

Verbally redrawing the map.

How helpful is this CNN? Stop worrying about what the evil Orange says and start putting out helpful information for once. You look so petty

Fake news ! The ones that were slow to act is the left and there minions like CNN and MSDNC were trying to pull the wool over Americans eyes what the [ nonsense impeachment } while the president was acting and placed important bans on countries with high infection rates!!!

CNN 'Fact Checking' is oxymoronic. And regular moronic.

He still thinks his response is 10/10

There are MILES of Video/News footage that show that is BS. Shows how he flip flopped and lied on almost everything he has said. He has an Aversion to Facts!

He’s been working with his team aggressively to combat it, while CNN promoted hysteria. It’s a shame CNN has become tabloid trash.

He earned our lack of trust in him.

You a CNN are wrong. You just wanted to think the worst.

This is not the time to go after him but behind him

What do you want, failure and panic. Ridiculous!

SethAbramson

FACT CHECK! CNN SUCKS!

Keep lying to us, you’re creating more Trump voters hour by hour. Who STOPPED travel from China in January? What did you report when he did it?! Lie some more now. F-K all of YOU! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Did President Trump wear the right color tie CNN? You criticize EVERYTHING elce!

You mean back when he closed travel to China to stop spread and you and the Dems all called him racist for doing so? Gotcha!!

At this point who the hell cares what he says?

FakeNewsCNN

No..iy went from nothing happening here to run for your life..i have zero confidence in thid thug

OmarKelly At at time like this Fake News CNN is still more concerned with attacking the president than spreading positive news about our situation. Hey assholes, it's not about ratings and the election right now, it's about getting people through this - a lot of whom aren't getting paid.

OmarKelly Trump may be an ass..But CNN does nothing but lie

You mean he didn’t pump up panic....like a leader!!?

Will CNN Fact Check the Biden/Bernie debate the other night!!!!!!!

Presidential comedian 😆😅😝

Having nick names for opponents he now has his own “Silly Trump”

CNN paid no attention to all the things put in place early on. Doesn’t matter cause they won’t report anything positive about anything.

In times of great fear and confusion, you guys still have nothing positive to say about this guy or his team. muppets

SethAbramson It amazes me how quickly and easily this man lies even when there is video evidence to the contrary. How anybody thought this man would be able to be president is definitely mind boggling.

He thought they were talking about the spray tan.

There is a vast difference between inciting fear and panic and being an incompetent liar.

FAKENEWSCNN

Remember CNN everyone is getting better after 3weeks with h no vaccine just rest and relaxation CNN and the deep state are on a mission to tank the economy during election year

*Global footnote: Always check anything thqt dude has said first:)

CNN breaking wind

He is trying not to panic the weak minded liberals that are still attached to the government's nipples since they cant do things themselves.

It’s a good thing he doesn’t lie often so we can have faith and believe in him 😎

People should be united instead of keeping complaining~

Can someone take him out of his own misery? That man is so stupid, it must hurt his brain.

What was that ?

Shove it and grow to hell up.

Another opinion piece attempting to masquerade as news. So transparently obvious.

Let it gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This is what needs to stop. The country needs to realize CNN is only making things worse. CNN needs to stop being part of the problem

在这近三个月中特朗普依旧没有一条有利于疫情控制的政策被落实,这样的不作为造成了美国今日的困局

No thanks we don't need the fact-checking of the Democrat media

He is trying to display calm

Every country did, including China where it came from.

The President's lies remain lies and only add to the uncertainty of the population, not these enlightening articles.😘🇪🇺🇩🇪

Because it doesn't pose much risk. It's only the media folks that are hyping up the panic.

Now he knows cus thing is out of control already😁😀

No change at all. Ignorant all the time.

If he doesn't have a tone, he's downplaying. If he does have a tone, he's fear mongering and inciting panic. If he walked on water, CNN's headline would be 'Trump can't swim'.

realDonaldTrump Hmmm.... idiotpresident

cnn is trash, still stirring division and trying to play politics in the midst of a pandemic.

Thats a load of crap......he wants people to.believe that but we know the truth.

He’s just a bare faced liar!!!

This 'panic' is his fault. He should have been honest from the beginning (early Feb.) You can't treat a serious virus as a common cold. Honesty would have prepared people to be prepared. Personal, non-scientific observations/hunches hide the truth=panic when the truth is told.

how can you instill confidence in the people you lead by crying or acting too scared

Trump looks meltdown because he did not understand and did any knowledge of nothing what so ever uneducated president just to lair to Americans people please this joke out the is laughing at trump you saw in London right they said he talks none stops because he doesn't know

He sets the standards of risk ,Anything less than 90% is not serious

A reminder to the low information liberal Democratic voters who follow the clown news Network,CNN Debbie Wasserman Shultz was cought rigging the election for the evil one hillery Clinton,wake up the Dems are doing it again!

Eleven of ten. 🙄

He never tells an untruth. He just has amnesia.

Nothing new here. The sycophants will follow everywhere.

So what? The situation has changed!

NOTICED THAT WITHOUT HIS NARCISSISTIC SUPPLY, WHICH ARE HIS FLYING MONKEYS AT HIS RALLIES USED FOR MUDSLINGING/NAME CALLING AGAINST HIS ENEMIES/WOMEN TO BOOST HIS EGO/ INCOMPETENCE, NOW HE'S BEHAVING PASSIVE & COMPLIANT TO SUGGESTIONS... JUST BAD ACTING IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS

A fresh reminder that we could have had a mature, well-informed, competent, and intelligent POTUS with integrity, but that instead we got stuck with Trump.

realDonaldTrump is hedging his bets on his supporters having the shortest span of memory. People are getting sick. People are dying. Will the survivors still believe his boldfaced lies?

When he does mistakes he fucking others but some things good happy he keeps all the credit by state government did not wait for the stupid president before save our thanks all Americans state governor great job to all of you

Question? All you people who bash CNN, why the hell do you follow them on twitter

Really?

Why don't you start shitting on the WHO? Check out their tone in January...

You are in Hell, and you don't know it yet.

The biggest liar in the world

Fact check: 'CNN has adopted a ridiculous tone for the last 3+ years.' ✔️

POTUS realDonaldTrump is the liar-in-chief, enabled by VP GOP who did not impeach him, continue to let him get away with criminal corruption, decimation brick by brick of our democratic foundation of 3 co-equal branches, rule of law, decimated by trump+family+cabinet+clones.

Nice

Trapps is a funny actor.

That great from president trump

Man let it go, CNN. Wow.

Fact check , cnn has pushed Russian collusion lies for 3 years now

He was correct to not be a fear monger!! No we have panic because of the crazy media. We can deal with this without stocking up on TP

Is it really a good idea to continue with this type of article Time to evaluate what these posts are doing to Americans.

We have tapes

Still is minimal risk

Who is that indian face, always there at background when trump speak🙄

Trump has blood on his hands

Trump policy 'no test, no case'. High confirm case number affect Trump reelection campaign. Japan Abe admin also adapted same policy, high case number affect Olympic game big event.

I’m not a fan of his either, but you can’t “Fact Check” something by saying two things that mean the same...

Give it up, CNN. You've lost all credibility by hammering Trump from day one. Look at last night's election results. Americans are rallying around him. You'd be better located at supermarket check-out counters than airports.

This is bigger than politics and bad press. Give it a rest report something important

Because you listened to WHO. You want to fact check? Go check what DrTedros said to cover China since the very beginning.

Yes, totally agree.

Trump lies. We know that, which makes the way he handled this so much scarier. Think about how many people believed him in the beginning when he said it was a hoax. How many went to his rallies, shook his hand? He posed a threat then and now.

Trump was trying to prevent panic. But note that he very early on banned traffic from China. One does not do that unless one believes the risk is serious. Same with his ban on travel from Europe. Bottom line for CNN: get with the program and help rather than harm.

Oh you mean he didn’t throw the country into a panic like the MSM has.

Fake news, ratings low u can't keep smearing president Trump, focus on ur real jobs

But he has changed. He wouldn’t say it a hoax any more.

I don’t know if it’s real or not

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