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- The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency can be traced back to something Trump said one year ago this week about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
- On January 22, 2020, Trump told CNBC that the US has COVID "totally under control."
- As the Trump presidency comes to an end and the Biden-Harris administration begins, around 400,000 Americans thus far have died from COVID-19 since early 2020.
If you had to look back and pinpoint one moment above all others that marked the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency, you could do a lot worse than the moment President Trump uttered a now-infamous phrase about the coronavirus pandemic one year ago this week.
Speaking with CNBC's Joe Kernen from the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, 2020, Trump downplayed the nascent threat of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The virus, which had at the time killed only a small number of people (we thought) and infected hundreds more, Trump assured Kernen: "It's one person coming in from China. We have it totally under control. It's going to be just fine."
Only two weeks later, though, Trump would tell famed Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward in a phone call, which went unreported at the time, that COVID-19 seemed to be airborne and very dangerous. "You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump told Woodward in an interview for his book, Rage, which was released in September 2020 and which painted a damning picture of the Trump presidency. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
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The end of Trump’s presidency began one year ago this week originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 16:23:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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