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Greg Evans
Mar 18, 2020
Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America, is now claiming that he knew to the coronavirus outbreak was pandemic, despite previously saying it was hoax.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Trump said that he had realised that COVID-19 was a pandemic long before the World Health Organisation had confirmed it as one last week.
He said:
This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries.
Trump, who not a month ago characterized Democratic criticism of the coronavirus response as a "hoax," now claims,… https://t.co/IZ6DjYxXLF— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1584463670
This is a dramatic U-turn from Trump who just a few weeks ago was claiming that the outbreak was a hoax concocted by the Democrats, which he said during a rally in South Carolina at the end of February.
Trump's reversal and blatant arrogance has understandably annoyed a lot of people, especially in a time when people need reassurance and the truth from our leaders.
By the way, this of course is just straight 💩 #smh Lying is absolutely the last thing our society needs from its… https://t.co/p2VMikEC7f— Gregg Bell (@Gregg Bell) 1584477261
There's an epidemic of lying originating in the White House. #Pandumbic Ref: https://t.co/rawvtU4O40… https://t.co/Wl5XEJpmLU— Bad Fox Graphics (@Bad Fox Graphics) 1584467459
He says it was only 15 cases and that it would “go away” on its own https://t.co/VtWcffkoqU— Asha Rangappa (@Asha Rangappa) 1584464269
Still infuriating when he does that thing where he says the exact opposite of the thing he said last week and then… https://t.co/WGmDOvjdj5— Amir (@Amir) 1584465016
What an incredible bit of lying. The chutzpah of this guy has no ends. https://t.co/fPbTa1MqkR— Eric Blake 🌀 (@Eric Blake 🌀) 1584479610
I mean. It’s just ridiculous at this point how stupid he thinks we must be. https://t.co/zA5wsZkQfy— Zack Akers (@Zack Akers) 1584463837
Trump 2/28: “They tried the impeachment hoax... They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in.… https://t.co/JMlETWRcLM— Brian Tyler Cohen (@Brian Tyler Cohen) 1584473688
The United States has begun to take firmer measures to combat the virus and Trump has considerably changed his tune on the issue, as evident in the above video but is still insistent on calling it 'Chinese-virus.'
At the time of writing the US has 6,362 confirmed coronavirus and 108 deaths since the virus was first reported in the country on January 15.
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