From calling coronavirus a hoax to tall claims about testing of patients, Trump has made some of the most bizarre statements during the course of the pandemic. Here are some of them.
They are dying, that's true. It is what it is. But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. It's under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague.
This was sent to us by China, one way or the other, and we are never going to forget it. Believe me, we are never going to forget it.
Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion.
Scientists should explore whether inserting light or disinfectant into the bodies of people infected with the new coronavirus might help them clear the disease.
It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle - it will disappear.
So the media likes to say we have the most cases, but we do, but we do, by far, the most testing. If we did very little testing, we wouldn't have the most cases. So, in a way, by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad.
No other country is even close to that. We've tested 60 million people -in many cases about 50 percent, now rapid fire, meaning five to 15 to 20-minute tests where you get the results almost immediately. Nobody has anything like that. Nobody. And I think we're just doing very well.
Last year 37,000 Americans died from the common flu. Nothing is shut down, life and the economy go on... Think about that.
We've taken the most aggressive actions to confront the coronavirus. They are the most aggressive taken by any country.
Ventilators are a big deal and we are now the king of ventilators. We have so many ventilators.