Trumps and Corona.... a timeline
Trump Timeline
Dec 18 - House Impeaches Trump
Jan 8 - First CDC warning on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Jan 9 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16 - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18 - Trump golfs
Jan 19 - Trump golfs
Jan 20 - first case of COVID-19 in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22 - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 28 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 31 - Announces China travel restrictions
Feb 1 - Trump golfs
Feb 2 - Starts China travel restrictions
Feb 2 - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5 - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 5 - HHS Secretary Azar requested $2 billion to buy respirator masks & other supplies for the national stockpile. Trump cut request by 75%
Feb 10 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 11 - At a rally, Trump says the virus will 'miraculously go away' with warmer weather. Meanwhile, the white house releases fiscal budget plan which proposes large budget cuts to the CDC and NIH
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/925130 Feb 12 - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15 - Trump golfs
Feb 19 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24 - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25 - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 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.”
Feb 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
Feb 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
Feb 27 - “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 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.”
Feb 28 - "The press is in Hysteria mode!" Over covid19
Feb 28 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 29 - First COVID-19 death in US
Mar 2 - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
Mar 2 - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 5 - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
Mar 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!”
Mar 6 - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 6 - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
Mar 6 -"It came out of China... we closed it down, we stopped it."
Mar 7 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 9 - “This blindsided the world.”
Mar 10 - "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
Mar 12 - Finally ordered N95masks
Mar 13 - [Declared state of emergency]
Mar 13 - " I dont take responsibility at all."
Mar 14 - Young Asian-American family of 4 stabbed in TX Sam's Club by man who thinks they're responsible for COVID.
Mar 15 - "It's a very contagious virus. It's incredible. But it's something we have tremendous control of."
Mar 15 - 3,613 COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths
Mar 17 - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
Mar 18 - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
Mar 19 - "And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — they’ve gone through the approval process. It’s been approved."
Mar 19 - FDA "Chrloroquine has not been approved for use against COVID-19."
Mar 20 - Trump says he is going to enact the Defense Production Act
Mar 23 - Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
Mar 23 - "You look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we're talking about. That doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody no more driving of cars. So we have to do things to get our country open."
Mar 25 - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
Mar 26 - “You call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is...”
Mar 27 - Activates Defense Production Act
Mar 30 - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
Apr 1 - "Did you know I was number one on Facebook?"
Apr 2 - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
Apr 3 - 270,062 COVID-19 cases, 6,927 deaths.
Apr 4 - “Maybe we could allow special, for churches, maybe we could talk about it. Maybe we could allow them, with great separation outside, on Easter Sunday. I don’t know, it's something we should talk about,” he said.
“We have to get this country open. This country was not designed to be closed...we're paying people to stay home...and they want to go to work.”
Apr 5 - More then 9000 deaths in US from Covid-19. More than active service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Apr 6 - "I answered this 15 times. You don't have to answer." -- Trump prevents Dr Fauci from answering a question about hydroxychloroquine
Apr 7 - Trump threatens to pull funding from WHO
The whole Hannity interview. Just a couple snippets. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-sean-hannity-coronavirus/index.html
Apr 10 - Trump administration announces employers dont have to report corona virus cases unless you are in the health care industry.
“This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it’s a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it."
He added: “We’re fighting – not only is it hidden, but it’s very smart. Okay? It’s invisible and it’s hidden, but it’s – it’s very smart.”
Apr 11 - Trump asked White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci, “Why don’t we let this wash over the country?”
Apr 13 - Trump claims absolute authority over states governors
Apr 13 - "The media minimized the risk from the start."
Apr 14 - Trump announces USA will stop funding WHO
Claims mail in voting us fraudulent after voting by mail
Tests still not available for most people.
Dec 18 - House Impeaches Trump
Jan 8 - First CDC warning on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Jan 9 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16 - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18 - Trump golfs
Jan 19 - Trump golfs
Jan 20 - first case of COVID-19 in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22 - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 28 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 31 - Announces China travel restrictions
Feb 1 - Trump golfs
Feb 2 - Starts China travel restrictions
Feb 2 - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5 - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 5 - HHS Secretary Azar requested $2 billion to buy respirator masks & other supplies for the national stockpile. Trump cut request by 75%
Feb 10 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 11 - At a rally, Trump says the virus will 'miraculously go away' with warmer weather. Meanwhile, the white house releases fiscal budget plan which proposes large budget cuts to the CDC and NIH
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/925130 Feb 12 - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15 - Trump golfs
Feb 19 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24 - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25 - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 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.”
Feb 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
Feb 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
Feb 27 - “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 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.”
Feb 28 - "The press is in Hysteria mode!" Over covid19
Feb 28 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 29 - First COVID-19 death in US
Mar 2 - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
Mar 2 - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 5 - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
Mar 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!”
Mar 6 - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 6 - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
Mar 6 -"It came out of China... we closed it down, we stopped it."
Mar 7 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
Mar 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.”
Mar 9 - “This blindsided the world.”
Mar 10 - "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
Mar 12 - Finally ordered N95masks
Mar 13 - [Declared state of emergency]
Mar 13 - " I dont take responsibility at all."
Mar 14 - Young Asian-American family of 4 stabbed in TX Sam's Club by man who thinks they're responsible for COVID.
Mar 15 - "It's a very contagious virus. It's incredible. But it's something we have tremendous control of."
Mar 15 - 3,613 COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths
Mar 17 - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
Mar 18 - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
Mar 19 - "And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — they’ve gone through the approval process. It’s been approved."
Mar 19 - FDA "Chrloroquine has not been approved for use against COVID-19."
Mar 20 - Trump says he is going to enact the Defense Production Act
Mar 23 - Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
Mar 23 - "You look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we're talking about. That doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody no more driving of cars. So we have to do things to get our country open."
Mar 25 - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
Mar 26 - “You call it a germ, you can call it a flu, you can call it a virus. You know, you can call it many different names. I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is...”
Mar 27 - Activates Defense Production Act
Mar 30 - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
Apr 1 - "Did you know I was number one on Facebook?"
Apr 2 - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
Apr 3 - 270,062 COVID-19 cases, 6,927 deaths.
Apr 4 - “Maybe we could allow special, for churches, maybe we could talk about it. Maybe we could allow them, with great separation outside, on Easter Sunday. I don’t know, it's something we should talk about,” he said.
“We have to get this country open. This country was not designed to be closed...we're paying people to stay home...and they want to go to work.”
Apr 5 - More then 9000 deaths in US from Covid-19. More than active service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Apr 6 - "I answered this 15 times. You don't have to answer." -- Trump prevents Dr Fauci from answering a question about hydroxychloroquine
Apr 7 - Trump threatens to pull funding from WHO
The whole Hannity interview. Just a couple snippets. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-sean-hannity-coronavirus/index.html
Apr 10 - Trump administration announces employers dont have to report corona virus cases unless you are in the health care industry.
“This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it’s a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it."
He added: “We’re fighting – not only is it hidden, but it’s very smart. Okay? It’s invisible and it’s hidden, but it’s – it’s very smart.”
Apr 11 - Trump asked White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci, “Why don’t we let this wash over the country?”
Apr 13 - Trump claims absolute authority over states governors
Apr 13 - "The media minimized the risk from the start."
Apr 14 - Trump announces USA will stop funding WHO
Claims mail in voting us fraudulent after voting by mail
Tests still not available for most people.
