Trump is pathetic
US president Donald Trump rejected claims he lied to the American people about the threat of coronavirus, as the fallout from his comments to veteran journalist Bob Woodward reverberated on Thursday.
Several interviews between the president and Mr Woodward for the latter’s new book make it appear as if Mr Trump deliberately played down the seriousness of the novel coronavirus, describing the virus as “deadly” to Mr Woodward in the spring at the same time as he was assuring the American public that there was no threat.
“I didn’t lie. We have to be calm, we can’t be panicked,” the president said in a press conference at the White House on Thursday shortly before he left for a campaign event in Michigan.
When it was pointed out to the president that other leaders such as German chancellor Angela Merkel had remained calm but also had warned their citizens about the dangers of coronavirus, Mr Trump replied that Europe was “having breakouts like you’ve never seen before. We have done much, much better than the European Union, ” he said.
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