We’re ready for it. We’re really prepared. We have — as I said, we’ve had — we have the greatest people in the world. We’re very ready for it. We hope it doesn’t spread. There’s a chance that it won’t spread too, and there’s a chance that it will, and then it’s a question of at what level. So far, we’ve done a great job. When you have 15 people, with this whole world coming into the United States, and the 15 people are either better or close to being better, that’s pretty good. Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Conference – Feb. 27, 2020 (White House website)
When the next pandemic occurs (and make no mistake, it will) and the federal government is unable to respond in a coordinated and effective fashion to protect the lives of US citizens and others, this decision by John Bolton and Donald Trump will be why. Stephen Schwartz, May 10, 2018 Tweet
Best liar
- The Washington Post The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
- Trump made 33 false claims about the coronavirus crisis in the first two weeks of March (CNN)
- All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus (The Atlantic)
- Save time: Assume Trump is inept and lying (The Washington Post)
- Frank Rich: Trump Lies His Way Through a Pandemic (New York Magazine)
- Seth Meyers Takes a Closer Look at Trump’s Coronavirus Lies (Paste Magazine)
- Armor on the frontlines: As Trump spreads corrosive lies about personal protective equipment, others step up (New York Daily News)
Worst impression of a leader during crisis
- Trump Coronavirus Calendar (The Recount Media)
- Trump Misery Index (The Lincoln Project)
- A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus (New York Times)
- The Trump administration’s botched coronavirus response, explained (Vox)
- U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic (The Washington Post)
- Trump struggles to explain why he disbanded his global health team (MSNBC)
- Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded (New York Times)
- Of Course Trump Deserves Blame for the Coronavirus Crisis (New York Times)
- Trump keeps saying ‘nobody’ could have foreseen coronavirus. We keep finding out about new warning signs. (The Washington Post)
- This Is How Donald Trump Will Be Remembered (The Atlantic)
- Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week ‘I didn’t know about it’ (Independent)
- Rick Wilson takes a blowtorch to Trump’s COVID-19 failures (Raw Story) “When tested by the fire of crisis, Trump showed us what he’s always been; a weak, spoiled, intellectually vacant conman who has stumbled through a life of betrayal and failure papered over by bullsh*t and public relations ….”
- Trump accuses press of ‘siding with China’ amid pandemic (The Hill)
- Former intelligence chiefs: Trump’s removal of experts is deeply destructive to our nation’s safety (The Washington Post)
- Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak (Reuters)
- Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus (ProPublica)
- Trump Rejects New York’s Plea For Ventilators: ‘I Don’t Believe You Need’ That Many (Huffington Post)
- The President Is Trapped. Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally. (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s Narcissistic Punishment Of Withholding Michigan Aid (Forbes)
- The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life (The Guardian)
- White House Economists Warned in 2019 a Pandemic Could Devastate America (New York Times)
- Trump’s coronavirus death toll estimate exposes his failure (Vox)
- Commander of confusion: Trump sows uncertainty and seeks to cast blame in coronavirus crisis (The Washington Post)
- Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses (Los Angeles Times)
- More damning revelations about Trump. Yet another bogus defense. (The Washington Post)
- An outbreak of incompetence (The Washington Post)
- The worst president. Ever. (The Washington Post)
- This Is What Happens When a Narcissist Runs a Crisis (The New York Times)
- Chaos rocks Trump White House on virus’ most tragic day (CNN)
- He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus (New York Times)
- A new investigation reveals Trump ignored experts on Covid-19 for months (Vox)
- ‘It all could have been different’ (Los Angeles Times)
- Trump’s Role in the Death Toll (New York Times)
- False Prophet – Media-bashing robocalls, chloroquine Twitter trolls, briefing-room propaganda—how the president and his allies are trying to convince America he was right all along (The Atlantic)
- Trump tells a damnable and murderous lie (The Washington Post)
- ‘Nothing to worry about’ and ‘it’s being contained’: How Trump officials downplayed the coronavirus (CNN)
- An Oral History of the Pandemic Warnings Trump Ignored (Wired)
- A nation behind the curve (Los Angeles Times)
- Contradiction, chaos as crisis turns critical (Los Angeles Times)
- Trump is insane: And it’s time for leading Democrats to say that out loud (Salon)
- Trump’s Plan to Contain the Coronavirus by Unleashing Anarchy Seems Risky (New York Magazine)
- Trump’s ugly new blame-shifting scam spotlights his own failures (The Washington Post)
- The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken. (The Atlantic)
- Trump gets a smaller stage (Los Angeles Times)
- Why Trump Was Deaf to All the Warnings He Received (The Atlantic)
- ‘Absolute Clusterf–k’: Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force (Rolling Stone)
- We’re all Zelensky now (The Washington Post)
- 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America (The Washington Post)
- The President Is Unraveling (The Atlantic)
- A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis (New York Times)
- Trump’s lethal aversion to reading (The Week)
- The president who cries ‘treason’ (The Washington Post)
- Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers. (The Washington Post)
- James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution (The Atlantic)
- The central feature of Trump’s presidency: False claims and disinformation (The Washington Post)
Miscellaneous
- 10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known (The Atlantic)