In a wild interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios, Trump STILL insists the coronavirus is under control. This is the same line of bullshit he has been trying to sell us since the virus first emerged:
January 22 on CNBC: "We have it totally under control"
January 30 in Warren, MI: "We think we have it well under control"
February 23 on the South Lawn: "We have it very much under control."
February 24 on Twitter: "The coronavirus is very much under control"
February 26 at the White House: "We have it so well under control"
February 29 at CPAC: "Everything is under control"
March 15 at the White House: "It's something we have tremendous control over"
March 26 on Hannity: "and they have it under control"
July 2 from the White House: "and we are likewise getting it under control"
July 10 on Telemundo: "I think we're going to have it under control very quickly"
July 19 on Fox News Sunday: "But it's going to be under control"
August 3 on Axios: "It's under control as much as you can control it"
Note to the Orangeman: This week, we are continuing to see increases in COVID-19 cases in 33 states. So no, we still don't have the Coronavirus under control-- and lying about that OVER AND OVER AGAIN doesn't make it so.
On the China travel ban:
Trump: Those people that really understand [the coronavirus], really understand it, they said it’s incredible, the job that we’ve done. ”
Swan: “Who says that?”
Trump: “Again, the ban, banning China from coming in-”
Swan: “But it [the virus] was already in here. It was already here. By the time you banned China, it came through Europe.”
Boy-- this is going as badly as the Chris Wallace interview!
On testing:
Trump: “Jonathan, we didn’t even have a test. When I took over, we didn’t even have a test.”
Swan: “Why would you have a test? The virus didn’t exist! How would you have a test?”
Trump: “I was going to say, there was no test for this new – we didn’t have a test, because there was no test.”
Swan: “Of course!”
Trump: “And in very short order, we got one test, we got another test.”
Swan: “It was broken, the first one.”
When asked how history will remember John Lewis, Trump says he doesn't know him, adding that Lewis failed to come to his inauguration or his State of the Union speeches. As if he realized that he hadn't lied yet, Trump finished by saying, "Nobody has done more for black Americans than I have."
Trump also asserted that he reads a lot and “comprehends extraordinarily well”-- but it's its fairly obvious to most of you that he is lying about that as well, so no need to go on about it.
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