Trump's Deadly Delay - Details
Jan 3rd - CDC Director Robert Redfield was notified by a counterpart in China that a "mysterious respiratory illness was spreading in Wuhan"; he notified HHS Secretary Alex Azar, who shared the report with the National Security Council (NSC)
Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Jan 9th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16h - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 17th - Trump golfs;
Jan 18th - January 18, HHS Secretary Azar discusses the coronavirus outbreak with Trump, who criticizes Azar for being "alarmist".
Jan 19th - Trump golfs
Jan 20th - President Xi Jinping warned the public that there is a pandemic in Wuhan
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 23rd -, Chinese authorities shut down Wuhan, a city of 11 million
Jan 24th – "China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"
Jan 28th - Trump campaign rally
Jan 29th - Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, said, "The whole world needs to be on alert now. The whole world needs to take action and be ready for any cases that come from the epicenter or other epicenter that becomes established
Jan 30th – Entire Hubei province, which includes the city of Wuhan, is shut down while Trump holds a campaign rally where he states, “We think we have it very well under control.”
Feb 1st - Trump golfs
Feb 2nd - Trump goes on Sean Hannity’s show and claims: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” Trump extols our “tremendous relationship” with China, and adds: “We did shut it down, yes.”
Feb 2nd – Trump’s Executive Order banning anyone who has been in China in the previo
us 14 days with exceptions (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and their close family members - 40,000 people in total with 9,000 from Wuhan) goes into effect. There is no plan to quarantine or track them.
Feb 5th - Senate votes to acquit Trumpy on the Impeachment charges. Trump takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10th - Trump campaign rally where he states that “a lot of people” think the coronavirus “goes away in April with the heat,” adding that we only have “11 cases,” and that “we’re in great shape.”
Feb 11: WHO Director-General Tedros urges world leaders to give priority to containing the virus: "To be honest, a virus is more powerful in creating political, economic and social upheaval than any terrorist attack. A virus can have more powerful consequences than any terrorist action, and that's true. If the world doesn't want to wake up and consider this enemy virus as Public Enemy Number 1, I don't think we will learn our lessons."
Feb 12th - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15h - Trump golfs
Feb 19th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20th - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21st - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24th – Trump tweets, "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
Feb 25h - “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.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th – Trumpy states, “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner." Trump then claims the media is conspiring with Democrats to hype the coronavirus to rattle the markets. Trump also says the coronavirus is “going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: Trump hails his administration’s handling of the coronavirus saying “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
Trump, Feb. 28: Trump campaign rally where he rages at Democrats’ criticism of his response (which proved entirely accurate) is “their new hoax.”
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2nd - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
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.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “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!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6th - “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.”
March 6th - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 7th - Trump golfs
March 8th - Trump golfs
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on Corona Virus.”
March 9th - Trump dismissively compares the coronavirus with flu, claiming flu kills tens of thousands annually and that “life & the economy go on.”
March 10: Trump again hails the “great job” he’s doing on the coronavirus, and declares: “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
March 13th - [Declared state of emergency]
March 13th - Asked about the administration’s epic failure to ramp up testing, Trump declares: “No, I don’t take responsibility at all.
March 17th - “This is a pandemic," Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 18th – Trumpy’s response to his calling the coronavirus the “ChinaVirus”: “It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
March 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
March 30th - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
April 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
May 20th- Virus cases 1,400,000, Deaths 93,500 to date
May 29 - Deaths over 102,000