Trump Calls Coronavirus Attack Worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11
President Donald Trump acknowledged the severity of the coronavirus pandemic during a conversation with reporters this week, calling the pandemic worse than Pearl Harbor or the attack on the World Trade Centers. Asked…
President Donald Trump acknowledged the severity of the coronavirus pandemic during a conversation with reporters this week, calling the pandemic worse than Pearl Harbor or the attack on the World Trade Centers.
Asked when the country needs to re-open in order to prevent permanent damage, Trump suggested that the elderly will “stay back longer,” adding, “This virus is going to disappear, it’s a question of when. Will it come back in a small way? Will it come back in a fairly large way.”
He continued, “But we know how to deal with it much better, you know, nobody knew anything about it initially.”
Moments later, he reflected, “We went through the worst attack we’ve ever had on our country — this is worse than Pearl Harbor, this is worse than the World Trade Center. There’s never been an attack like this. And it should have never happened, it could have been stopped at the source, could have been stopped at China.”
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Trump has recently begun attacking China and the World Health Organization and blaming the spread of the coronavirus on the Asian nation, saying, “And I think the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves because they’re like the public relations agency for China.”
Trump’s attacks on China are a change from the early stages of the pandemic when he frequently praised the Chinese response to the virus and wrote that “China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus.”
A report