President Donald Trump with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, right, and other members of the president's coronavirus task force speaks during a news conference at the Brady press briefing room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Washington.
“This will end,” Trump said of the outbreak at a White House news conference. “You don’t want to see panic because there’s no reason to be panicked.” More than 81,000 cases of COVID-19, an illness characterized by fever and coughing and in serious cases shortness of breath or pneumonia, have occurred since the new virus emerged in China.
Trump spent close to an hour discussing the virus threat, after a week of sharp stock market losses over the health crisis and concern within the administration that a growing outbreak could affect his reelection. He blamed the Democrats for the stock market slide, saying, “I think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the Democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves.
Without a vaccine, CDC’s Schuchat advised people to follow “tried and true, not very exciting” but important precautions: Wash your hands, cover your coughs and stay home when you’re sick. “Instead of listening to public health and medical experts, the president has been downplaying the potential impact of the virus for over a month,” said Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The only thing that will reassure me would if trump resigned and a qualified adult took over.
Pravda would be proud
Thw risk of the president there is very high.
Who in their right mind is going to believe him.
😬🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
JonLemire He should stay on that plain and go back to India and stay there he’s such a damn disgrace
BREAKING NEWS: Mexico will build a wall in the northern border to stop zombies from traveling south🤣😆🤣
In before all the commies hoping the virus spreads just to prove Trump wrong. Oh too late.
Originated in china and now is almost around the world so there is no treat to us 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Jeeze, this is bad reporting. Just because he said it doesn't make it true, and you're dealing with people's lives here.
Waste of time
Stop normalizing Trump's insanity and unfitness for office, please. Thank you.
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This is your summary? You make up stuff as much as he does.
JonLemire Why is she wearing sunglasses at night
He wants lots of people at his rallies
LIAR
'very low risk,' ey? let's see Trump go visit some Covid-19 patients in the hospital, then--no hazmat suit
This is irresponsible reporting. What did the informed experts say? THAT is the story.
Until he goes in racist rant against Asians! Cus that’s coming!!!
_Politics Clearly trump cares more about his reelection and the Stock Market then concern for every American!
JonLemire He of course is lying through his sneering leering teeth. This is no ordinary virus. In crowds of people you will encounter someone who has been in contact with someone who has been in contact with someone. That's how contagious it can be. How dire is it? It's no Olympics dire.
JonLemire “Trump seeks to reassure Americans [who are wealthy enough to gamble their fortunes on Wall St.] about the possible threat of coronavirus.” Fixed it for ya.
JonLemire This headline is a total, 100% lie. Do better.
JonLemire Wtf Spreading his lies ffs Trump seeks to calm stock market fall by lying to Americans
Did we see the same press conference? The pros contradicted him entirely!
JonLemire 'President Trump seeks to reassure' Ya, when he speaks, that never happens.
Nobody wants to come to USA now anyway
Too bad we can’t believe him.
Low risk is anyone but him.
Is this a tweet from the Ministry of Propaganda?
Sleeping so much better tonight.
Gotta make you cry - The President, the Vice President and one of the unqualified Acting Secretaries got up, praised Trump and said everything was under control. Then the CDC Physicians stood up and without spewing unwarranted praise for Trump, contradicted the politicians.
He’s so full of crap even a toilet won’t take him
Zero credibility. The man doesn't even believe in vaccines.
COVIDー19 seems to be quite smart enough...
you are suppose to inform readers, not spread disinfo on trumps behalf and put people in danger do better with your headlines or dont expect to be taken seriously
True motive: “Calm DOW-n” 👁💰
Send all the corona virus people to the White House and trump rallys. Since he says it’s all fine
idiot
Mexico will pay for the wall too
No worry, the stop-it-all Wall will protest us!
“We’re very, very ready for this, for anything,” even if it’s “a breakout of larger proportions,” coronavirus
He said much more than that
Fact check him. This is irresponsible to spread this shit.
Oh whew! That’s re-assuring. Because HE IS SO BELIEVABLE!!!!
That would be a lie.
So after 16 thousand lies were supposed to trust him now?
Trump is LYING.
Just a flu, bro.
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