For those who can’t figure out how to access a web page, here’s a
timeline featuring some of the lies the toadstool-in-chief has told
about the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a work in progress.
Ordinary black text indicates true facts, context, and background
information. Red indicates outright lies. Blue indicates statements
that are scandalous, even though they are true or matters of opinion.
Throughout January and February: US intelligence agencies were
issuing ominous classified warnings about the global danger posed by
the coronavirus. [Reference]
- January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” [Reference]
- January 24: All senators briefed, in private, about the
seriousness of the threat. [Reference]
- January 24: Senator Kelly Loeffler begins unloading
millions of dollars’ worth of stock in companies that would be harmed
by a pandemic, and buying stock in companies that would benefit, such
as PPE manufacturers. [Reference] [Reference]
- January 27: Already 5 confirmed cases in the US. Front-page
article in USA Today, discussing the seriousness of the threat.
[Reference]
- January 30: “We only have five people. Hopefully everything’s going to be great.” [Reference]
- February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” [Reference]
- February 5: Final impeachment vote in the senate. [Reference]
- February 5: Senator Chris Murphy tweeted:
“Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren’t taking this seriously enough. Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.” [Reference]
- February 7: Senator Richard Burr wrote in a Fox News op-ed:
“No matter the outbreak or threat, Congress and the federal
government have been vigilant in identifying gaps in its readiness
efforts and improving its response capabilities.” [Reference]
Note: During February, Burr was receiving, on a daily basis,
classified briefings about the true nature of the pandemic. [Reference]
What he was saying in public is starkly inconsistent with what he was
doing in private and saying in private.
- February 10: “You know in April, supposedly, it dies with
the hotter weather.” [Reference]
- February 10: “You know, a lot of people think that goes
away in April with the heat – as the heat comes in. Typically, that
will go away in April.” [Reference]
- February 10: “Looks like by April, you know, in theory,
when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” [Reference]
- February 13: “we think and we hope, based on all signs that the problem goes away in April” [Reference]
- February 14: “There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm — historically, that has been able to kill the virus.” [Reference]
- February 13: Senator Richard Burr sold off a significant
percentage of his stocks. About a week later, the market began a
steep, deep decline. [Reference] [Reference]
What he was doing in private is starkly inconsistent with what he was
saying in public.
- February 17: In the context of disbanding the White House
pandemic office: “Some of the people we cut, they haven’t been
used for many, many years. And if — if we have a need, we can get
them very quickly. And rather than spending the money — and I’m a
business person — I don’t like having thousands of people around
when you don’t need them. When we need them, we can get them back
very quickly.” [Reference]
Note: This is inconsistent with what he said on March 13th.
- February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control
in the USA” [Reference]
- February 24: “Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” [Reference]
Note: Over the next month the Dow lost 1/3rd of its value.
- February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” [Reference]
- February 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.” [Reference]
- February 26: Referring to coronavirus cases in the US:
“when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is
going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve
done.” ... “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” [Reference]
- February 26: “This is a flu. This is like a flu.”
[Reference]
- February 27: “One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” [Reference]
- February 27: Senator Richard Burr privately told a group
of wealthy businessmen “There’s one thing that I can tell you
about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than
anything that we have seen in recent history.” ... “It is probably
more akin to the 1918 pandemic." [Reference]
Note: He didn’t say anything similar to the public. This conflicts
with what he said to the public on February 7th.
This seems like the poster child for insider trading. [Reference]
- February 28: “And this is their new hoax.” [Reference] [Reference]
- March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
- March 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.”
Note: This conflicts with what he said on March 5th.
- March 4: “I think we went as high as 100,000 people died
in 1990, if you can believe that.” [Reference]
- March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
Note: This conflicts with what he said on March 4th
- March 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!”
Note: Johns Hopkins says there were 217 “confirmed” cases and 12
deaths on March 5th. The number of actual infections was surely
much larger.
- March 6: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.
That’s what the bottom line is.” [Reference]
- March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this
country at keeping it down. We’ve really been very vigilant, and
we’ve done a tremendous job at keeping to down.” [Reference]
- March 6: “Anybody right now and yesterday — anybody
that needs a test gets a test. We — they’re there. They have the
tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a
test.” ... “But anybody that needs a test can have a test. They’re
all set. They have them out there. In addition to that, they’re
making millions of more as we speak. But as of right now and
yesterday, anybody that needs a test — that’s the important thing”
[Reference]
- March 6: “and the tests are all perfect” [Reference]
- March 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.” [Reference]
- March 6: “I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship. That wasn’t our fault,” [Reference]
- March 6: “I hear the numbers are getting much better in Italy” [Reference]
- March 6: “something that came from out of nowhere” [Reference]
- March 7: “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not. No,
we’ve done a great job.” [Reference]
- March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan
at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” [Reference]
- March 9: P’ence said: “Over a million tests
have been distributed. Before the end of this week, another 4 million
tests will be distributed.” [Reference]
Note: More than two weeks later, on March 26th, the CDC said fewer than 100,000 tests had been performed.
- March 9: “This blindsided the world.” [Reference]
Note: This is inconsistent with the classified
warnings, January 2017 workshop, and the
September 2019 report.
- March 9: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the
common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is
shut down, lifethe economy go on. At this moment there are 546
confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 death. Think about that!”
[Reference]
- March 10: “I’ve been briefed on every contingency you
can possibly imagine. Many contingencies. A lot of positive.
Different numbers. All different numbers. Very large numbers. And
some small numbers too, by the way. [...] It’s really working out.
And a lot of good things are going to happen.” [Reference]
- March 10: “I’d rate it a 10. I think we’ve done a great job. ” [Reference]
- March 11: “We’re having to fix a problem that, four weeks ago,
nobody ever thought would be a problem.” [Reference]
Note: Again, this is inconsistent with the classified warnings, January 2017 workshop,
and the September 2019 report.
- March 13: Declared state of emergency. [Reference]
- March 13: “no, I don’t take responsibility at all” [Reference]
- March 13: In the context of disbanding the White House pandemic office: “I could perhaps ask Tony about that because I don’t know anything about it. I mean, you say – you say we did that. I don’t know anything about it.” [Reference]
Note: This is inconsistent with what he said on February 17th.
- March 14: “It’s something that nobody expected.” [Reference]
- March 15: “This is a very contagious — this is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.” [Reference]
- March 16: “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment – try getting it yourselves.” ... “Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.” [Reference]
- March 19: “chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine” ... “They — they’ve gone through the approval process; it’s been approved.” [Reference]
- March 23: “America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting.” [Reference]
- March 23: “The hardship will end, it will end soon. Normal life will return” [Reference]
- March 24: “So I think Easter Sunday and you will have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time and it is just about the timeline that I think is right.” [Reference]
- March 24: Referring to governors who are urgently
requesting aid: “But, you know, it’s a two-way street.
They have to treat us well also.” [Reference]
- March 26: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.” [Reference]
- March 26: “our people want to go back to work. I’m
hearing — I’m hearing it loud and clear from everybody.” [Reference]
- March 27: “We have done a hell of a job” [Reference]
- March 27: “I say Mike, ’Don’t call the governor of
Washington. You’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in
Michigan”’ [Reference]
- March 29: Denied saying what he said about
Inslee and Whitmer: “But I didn’t say that. I
didn’t say that.” Also denied saying what he said about ventilators
not being needed: “I didn’t say that.” [Reference]
- March 29: “Where are the masks going? Are they going out
the back door?” ... “people should check that because there’s
something going on” [Reference]
- March 29: “And as you know, even before this development,
we’ve been doing more test – tests than any other country anywhere in
the world. It’s one of the reasons that we have more cases than other
countries, because we’ve been testing. It’s also one of the reasons
that we’re just about the lowest in terms of mortality rate, because
we’ve been doing more testing. So we have bigger numbers to look
at.” [Reference]
- March 29: “And so, if we can hold that down, as we’re saying, to 100,000 — that’s a horrible number — maybe even less, but to 100,000; so we have between 100- and 200,000 — we all, together, have done a very good job.” [Reference]
Note: I rate that a lie, because 100,000 preventable deaths is not a
very good job. It doesn’t count as a matter of opinion, because it’s
not an honest opinion.
- March 30: Today we reached a historic milestone in our war
against the coronavirus. Over 1 million Americans have now been
tested — more than any other country, by far; not even close — and
tested accurately. [Reference]
- March 30: “I haven’t heard about testing in weeks. We’ve
tested more now than any nation in the world. We’ve got these great
tests, and we’ll come out with another one tomorrow, that’s almost
instantaneous testing. But I haven’t heard about testing being a
problem.” [Reference]
- March 31: In the context of impeachment distracting from
the coronavirus, Moscow Mitch McTurtle said “I think it diverted
the attention of the government because everything every day was all
about impeachment.” [Reference]
Note: Look where the impeachment vote sits on
this timeline: February 5th.
- March 31: In the context of impeachment distracting from
the coronavirus, spanky said: “I think I handled it very well,
but I guess it probably did.”
Note: Again, look where the impeachment vote sits
on this timeline: February 5th.
- April 1: P’ence said: “I don’t believe the president has ever belittled the threat of the coronavirus.” [Reference]
Note: This gives new meaning to the term Große Lüge. In fact he
belittled it on numerous occasions, including:
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January 22
- January 30
- February 2
- February 10
- February 10
- February 10
- February 13
- February 14
- February 17
- February 24
- February 25
- February 25 again
- February 26
- February 26 again
- February 27
- February 28
- March 2
- March 4
- March 5
- March 6
- March 6 again
- March 7
- March 8
- March 9
- March 23
- March 23 again
- March 24
- March 26
- March 29
- March 30
- April 2: Referring to doctors and nurses who are working
48-hour shifts, risking their lives to help others: “Some have
insatiable appetites & are never satisfied” ... “The complainers
should have been stocked up and ready long before this crisis hit”
[Reference]
- April 19: “As of today, we’ve tested 4.18 million Americans.
That’s a record anywhere in the world. The United States has now
conducted more total tests than all of the following nations combined:
France, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India,
Austria, Australia, Sweden, and Canada.” [Reference]
- April 23: “So, supposing we hit the body with a
tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light
— and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re
going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light
inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some
other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too.” [...]
“So we’ll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills
it in one minute, that’s — that’s pretty powerful.” [Reference]
- April 23: “And then 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 would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re
going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds
interesting to me.” [Reference]
- April 24: When asked to clarify his comments about injections of
disinfectant: “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters
like you, just to see what would happen.” [...] “But I was
asking a sarcastic — and a very sarcastic question to the reporters
in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it,
and it would kill it on the hands, and that would make things much
better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the
reporters.” [Reference]
- April 27: “The United States has now conducted more than 5.4 million tests — nearly double the number tested in any other country. More than twice as much as any other country. Think of that.” [Reference]
- April 28: When asked about the need for 5 million tests per
day, he said “Well, it will increase it and it’ll increase it by
much more than that in the very near future. We’re way ahead of
everyone on testing.” [Reference]
- April 28: “We are way ahead on testing. We are the
best in the world on testing. We’ve tested much more than anybody
else, times two — or every country combined. We’ve tested more than
every country combined.” [Reference]
- April 29: Appearing on Fox&Friends, Jar-Jar said: “So, the government, federal government rose to the challenge and this is a great success story and I think that that’s really what needs to be told.” [Reference]
- April 30: “Let me just tell you, we have — we started off with empty cupboards. The last administration left us nothing. We started off with bad, broken tests and obsolete tests.”
Jim Acosta followed up:
Q: “And as for, you say, broken tests, it’s a new virus. So how
could the test be broken when you needed a new test?”
A: We had a broken — Jim, we had broken tests.
[Reference]
- May 8: “This is going to go away without a vaccine. It’s going to go away, and it’s — we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time.” [Reference]
- May 11: “If somebody wants to be tested right now, they’ll be able to be tested.” [Reference]
- May 22: “Nancy Pelosi, a month later, was in Chinatown in San Francisco. She’s dancing in the streets of Chinatown, trying to say, ‘It’s okay to come to the United States. It’s fine. It’s wonderful. Come on in. Bring your infection with you.’” [Reference]
- June 17: “If you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. It’s dying out. … We’re not concerned. Actually, Oklahoma has had a very low rate relatively speaking. It is a little spike, a small spike for a specific reason. We’ll go there, everyone is going to be safe.” [Reference]
- June 17: “it’s fading away. It’s going to fade away”
[Reference]