April 14, 2020
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But what did you do with that time that you bought? The argument is that you bought yourself some time and you didn’t use it to prepare hospitals, you didn’t use it to ramp up testing. Right now —
THE PRESIDENT: You’re so — you’re so —
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— nearly 20 million people are unemployed.
THE PRESIDENT: You’re so disgraceful. It’s so disgraceful the way you say that.
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Tens of thousands of Americans are dead.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me just — listen.
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How is this sizzle reel —
THE PRESIDENT: I just went over it.
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— or this rant supposed to make people feel confident —
THE PRESIDENT: I just went over it.
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— in an unprecedented crisis?
THE PRESIDENT: Nobody thought we should do it. And when I did it —
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But what did you do with the time that you bought?
THE PRESIDENT: You know what we did?
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The month of February. That —
THE PRESIDENT: You know what we did?
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That video has a gap. The entire month of February.
THE PRESIDENT: What do you do — what do you do when you have no case in the whole United States when you —
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You had cases in February.
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me. You reported it: zero cases, zero deaths on January 17th.
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January, February — the entire month of February.
THE PRESIDENT: January. I said in January.
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Your video has a complete gap: the month of February.
THE PRESIDENT: On January 30th —
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What did your administration do in February with the time that your travel ban bought you?
THE PRESIDENT:
A lot.
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What?
THE PRESIDENT:
A lot. And, in fact, we’ll give you a list — what we did. In fact, part of it was up there.
We did a lot.
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It wasn’t in the video. The video had a gap.
THE PRESIDENT: Look. Look, you know you’re a fake. You know that. Your whole network — the way you cover it — is fake. And most of you — and not all of you — but the people are wise to you. That’s why you have a lower — a lower approval rating than you’ve ever had before, times probably three.
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Twenty million people now are unemployed.
THE PRESIDENT: And when you ask me that questions —
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Tens of thousands of people are dead, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me ask you this: Why didn’t Biden — why did Biden apologize? Why did he write a letter of apology?
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I don’t think the unemployed people right now care about why Joe Biden didn’t apologize to you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Why did the Democrats think that I acted too quickly? You know why? Because they really thought that I acted too quickly. We have done a great job.
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So get us the list of what you did in February.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, I could’ve — I could’ve kept it open. And I could’ve done what some countries are doing. They’re getting beat up pretty badly. I could have kept it open. I thought of keeping it open because nobody has ever heard of closing down a country, let alone the United States of America. But if I would have done that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of people that would right now be dead.
We’ve done this right. And we really — we really have done this right. The problem is the press doesn’t cover it the way it should be.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-25/The problem is that COVID-19 was (and is) treated by the White House as a public relations problem more than as an epidemic disease. I don't think the Administration ever provided a list of what they did in February to prepare for a pandemic – because it doesn't appear that they did anything significant.
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