"You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”
“The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.” 24 February.
“Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.”
“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
27 February.
“I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic.”
19 March.
“I don’t think I’m going to be doing it … I don’t know, somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful resolute desk, the great resolute desk. I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens. I don’t know, somehow I don’t see it for myself. I just, I just don’t.”
3rd April
“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”
“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light … and then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body,
23 April.
“Now we have tested almost 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless.”
4 July.
“My administration has a different approach: we have urged Americans to wear masks. And I emphasised this is a patriotic thing to do. Maybe they’re great and maybe they’re just good. Maybe they’re not so good.”
13 August.
