“Rage,” the follow-up to Woodward’s other book about Trump, “Fear,” is based in part on 18 on-the-record interviews Woodward conducted with the president between December 2019 and July 2020. “His attention span is like a minus number,” Fauci said, according to Woodward. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told Woodward that Trump was unfocused in meetings about the U.S. Trump addressing reporters about the coronavirus in April. “Now it’s turning out it’s not just old people,” Trump said. In the same interview, the president acknowledged that younger Americans were susceptible to contracting the deadly virus. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” “I wanted to always play it down,” he said. In another interview with Woodward, on March 19, Trump admitted that he was intentionally downplaying the threat of the virus. Trump did not declare a national emergency until March 13, more than a month after speaking to Woodward. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. On March 9, Trump tweeted: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. On March 7, when asked by reporters whether he was concerned about the pandemic affecting the U.S., Trump said: “No, I’m not concerned at all.” 7 interview with Woodward, the president suggested on Twitter that the coronavirus would disappear as “the weather starts to warm.” The president’s comments to Woodward about the coronavirus were in stark contrast with what he was saying in public: “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said, adding: “This is deadly stuff.” death from COVID-19 was announced.Īccording to audio excerpts from interviews Woodward conducted for his forthcoming book, “ Rage,” which were published Wednesday, Trump told the journalist and Washington Post columnist that he knew the virus - which has now killed more than 890,000 people worldwide and over 190,000 Americans - was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on Feb. Even as he publicly sought to downplay the threat of the coronavirus to Americans earlier this year, President Trump told author Bob Woodward that he knew the virus was serious and deadly.
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