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From February to May, Trump continually asserted that COVID-19 would "go away". [14] [15] The CDC waited until February 25 to first warn the American public to prepare for a local outbreak of the virus. [16] In March 2020, the administration began conducting daily press briefings at the White House, [17] where Trump was the dominant speaker. [18]
As the U.S. COVID-19 daily new case count increased from about 20,000 on June 9 to over 50,000 by July 7, Trump repeatedly insisted that the case increase was a function of increased COVID-19 testing. [73] Trump's claims were contradicted by the facts that states having increased case counts as well as those having decreased case counts had ...
Starting March 16, Trump began to hold daily press briefings on the coronavirus situation, lasting from an hour to more than two hours and usually broadcast live by the television networks. [103] On March 16, Trump said for the first time that the coronavirus was "not under control", and the situation was "bad" with months of impending ...
Pelosi’s letter came as Trump presided over a Rose Garden briefing of his coronavirus task force, at which he announced a halt to U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, asserting the U ...
Trump presided over the slowest economic growth of any U.S. president since the Second World War, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic that triggered a brief recession and a 2.2% decline in real GDP growth in his last year. [241] [242] Prior to the pandemic, real GDP growth averaged 2.7% during the first three years of the Trump presidency. [243]
Trump has come under intense scrutiny for his administration's slow response to the coronavirus crisis despite reports that indicate that US intelligence warned Trump in January and February about ...
Footage of Trump's speech. The 2020 Oval Office address, officially titled On the Coronavirus Pandemic, was the second televised, prime-time Oval Office address during the presidency of Donald Trump, delivered on March 11, 2020 at 9:01PM EDT. It was released during the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 stock market crash. [1]
The Trump administration must convey to the American public that while conditions may worsen before they improve, the cost of inaction — ceding supply chains, weakening defense and risking ...