A Timeline of Failure
January 21: The first confirmed Covid-19 case in the US is reported in Washington state
January 22: While at Davos, Trump makes his first public comment on the coronavirus, "We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine."
January 24: Trump praises China’s “efforts and transparency” and thanks Chinese President Xi Jinping for his response to the virus.
January 29: Trump receives a briefing on the coronavirus, and asserts that the US is “on top of it 24/7.”
Trumps tweet, "Just received a briefing on the Coronavirus in China from all of our GREAT agencies, who are also working closely with China. We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments. We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!"
January 30: The WHO declares the coronavirus a global health emergency. Trump suggests that the coronavirus is under control in remarks at a manufacturing plant in Michigan
January 31: Trump suspends entry to the US for many — but not all — categories of people traveling from China. The Department of Health and Human Services declares the coronavirus a public health emergency.
February 4: Trump gives the annual State of the Union address and briefly mentions the US response to the coronavirus in his speech.
February 5: The Food and Drug Administration issues an emergency use authorization for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coronavirus test, clearing the way for it to be used in state labs.
February 6: The first death in the US from a confirmed case of Covid-19 is retroactively confirmed to have occurred in early February by the Santa Clara County medical examiner following an autopsy of the victim.
February 7: Trump again praises Xi’s response to the coronavirus.
February 15: The first death in Europe from a confirmed case of Covid-19 is reported in France.
February 23: Trump again claims that the coronavirus is under control
February 25: Trump requests $2.5 billion in coronavirus response funding from Congress for vaccine development, testing, PPE, and more.
February 26: The first instance of community spread in the US is confirmed by the CDC.
February 26: Trump appoints Pence to lead the coronavirus task force; during the same press conference, he again downplays the virus. This was the date that Trump made his famous, "when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, " comment
February 27: Trump predicts that the coronavirus will disappear “like a miracle.
February 28: Trump refers to the coronavirus as the Democrats’ “new hoax” at a rally in South Carolina.
February 29: "We've taken the most aggressive actions to confront the coronavirus. They are the most aggressive taken by any country."
March 3: When asked about WHO data on the virus's death rate: "I think the 3.4% is really a false number... Personally, I think the number is way under 1%."
March 5: Trump suggests that closing the US to travel from China helped to keep the number of Covid-19 cases low.
March 6: At the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Trump says that “anybody that wants a test can get a test” (not true. And he also comments that he would rather have infected people who were trapped on a cruise ship stay there to keep the number of confirmed US cases low.
March 7: "Very soon, we're going to come up [with a vaccine]."
March 9: Trump compares to covid to common flu, "Last year 37,000 Americans died from the common flu. Nothing is shut down, life and the economy go on... Think about that."
March 11: The WHO officially labels the coronavirus a pandemic.
Same day that he made his address from the Oval Office that coincides with the NBA suspending its season.
March 13: Trump declares a national emergency in response to the coronavirus
March 16: Trump announces “15 Days to Stop the Spread” CDC guidelines, encouraging social distancing.
March 18: Trump officially invokes the Defense Production Act (DPA) in order to push domestic manufacturing industries to produce badly needed medical supplies.
March 19: Trump lie claiming that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine for treating Covid-19.
Also the same day Trump labeled the coronavirus the “Chinese Virus”.
March 20: Trump closes the US-Mexico border, saying
Trump hawks hydroxychloroquine, as a Covid-19 treatment at the White House Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing
March 22: Trump tweets, "WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!"
March 24: Trump says he wants Easter Sunday, April 12, as a potential reopening date.
March 26: The US hits 1,000 reported Covid-19 deaths.
March 27: Trump attacks General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Twitter over ventilator manufacturing amid a desperate shortage of the machines, and threatens to “invoke ‘P’” — the Defense Production Act
Trump signs a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package
March 29: Trump extends CDC social distancing guidance through April 30
He also says he believes his administration will have “done a very good job” if the US avoids the worst-case 2.2 million deaths predicted by London’s Imperial College.
March 31: Trump drops his comparison to the flu, saying the coronavirus is “vicious”
April 1: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the risk from coronavirus is emphatically worse than regular flu, Trump told a White House press conference that "a lot of people" had previously suggested the country should simply let the coronavirus take its course, just like the seasonal flu.
April 4: Trump again invokes the DPA to combat the hoarding of medical supplies
April 6: The US hits 10,000 reported Covid-19 deaths.
April 13: Trump claims to have the legal right to overrule governors’ shelter-in-place orders.
This is that day he claimed his authority is total
April 14: Trump announces plans to halt funding to the WHO
April 15: The US has 25,000 official Covid-19 deaths
April 17: He tweets, "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!"
He also goes after Obama and Biden over H1N1 and the ACA website
April 22: Trump announces that he opposes Georgia reopening. This after insisting they open
April 23: Trump signs an executive order blocking green cards for most categories of prospective immigrants
It is here he floats bleach as a potential coronavirus treatment
April 24: The US hits 50,000 reported Covid-19 deaths.
Jared Kushner said the administration's response was a "great success story." At that time deaths were 58,000.
April 28: The US hits 1 million confirmed Covid-19 cases.
April 30: The Trump administration allows federal “Stay at Home” guidelines to expire.
Open Michigan rally to protest Gov Whitmer extending the stay at home order
May 3: Trump again revises his estimate on the number of Covid-19 deaths the US will suffer and predicts 85,000 to 100,000 fatalities
Again, he blames China
May 7: The US hits 75,000 reported Covid-19 deaths. The Trump administration not to follow the CDC guidelines on re-opening
May 8: Trump claims that the US is “the world leader” in responding to the coronavirus.
May 9: Many states have yet to meet the minimum requirements for re-opening based on the White House’s guidelines.
Trump pushes for the reopening of nonessential businesses, using the slogan “TRANSITION TO GREATNESS!”
May 10: Trump again criticizes Obama 's response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic' He calls it a “disaster.”
May 11: Trump says, "We have met the moment and we have prevailed," Trump says at the White House, as COVID-19 deaths go over 80,000. "
May 18: Trump tells reporters that he is taking hydroxychloroquine
May 19: Trump blasts a study that came to the conclusion that there is no benefit to coronavirus patients who were treated with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. He calls it a phony study
May 21: Trump claims falsely that he was “so early. I was earlier than anybody thought” in response to a Columbia University study suggesting that 36,000 lives could have been saved
From the q&a with reporters:
REPORTER: A new Columbia study says 36,000 lives would've been saved if social distancing measures would've been recommended just one week earlier. Do you believe that?
TRUMP: "I was so early. I was earlier than anybody thought... Columbia is an institution that is very liberal"
May 27: The US hits 100,000 reported Covid-19 deaths.
June 1: Trump has police disperse peaceful protesters near a church with tear gas, so he can have his picture taken
June 2: It is reported that the Trump administration told Dr Fauci not to do any more TV interviews.
June 2: It is reported that a group tracking the cell phones of those attending the Open Michigan rallies coincides with spikes in western and northwestern Michigan where attendees returned
June 14: The president and the vice president of the United States are seeking to assure the public that the coronavirus pandemic has passed its peak.
June 15: Trump tweets
Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword - Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!
June 20: Trump holds his Oklahoma rally
At the rally, Trump says he told administration officials to slow down Covid-19 testing because of the rising number of cases in the US.
July 4: Trump claims that 99% of coronavirus cases are harmless
July 6: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday backed President Donald Trump's claim that "99%" of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless."
He added, "Trump was "right" to downplay the risks associated with the virus."
July 8: Health officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma say the Trump rally was likely where the spike in cases came from.
July 11: Dr Fauci confirms that on June 2nd the administration told him not to do any more TV interviews
July 13: President Trump questions the expertise of his top public health officials. He retweets a conspiracy theory from former game show host Chuck Woolery, who suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the "Media, Democrats [and] our Doctors" are lying about COVID-19 in an effort to hurt Trump in November's general election.
July 14: In response to a reporters question:
Well, you know that we have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere. If you know, Biden and [former President Barack] Obama stopped their testing; they just stopped it. You probably know that. I'm sure you don't want to report it. But they stopped testing. Right in the middle, they just went, "No more testing," and on a much lesser problem than the problem that we have, obviously with respect to -- this is the worst thing that's happened since probably 1917. This is a very bad -- all over the world. It's 188 countries right now.
Sources:
Cnn
Detroit Free Press
The Independent
NY Post
ET - Economic Times
Detroit News
Reuters
NPR
NY Times
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all the research that went into this compilation of trump's Timeline of FAIL!
It's trump's "hoax" that Blew Up in his GD ASSFACE
