we're prepared and we're doing a great
job with it and it will go away to stay
calm I want every American to be
prepared for the hard days that lie
ahead we're gonna go through a very
tough two weeks because of all we've
done the risk to the American people
remains very low absolutely critical for
the American people to follow the
guidelines for the next 30 days it's a
matter of life and death it's frankly
it's a matter of life and death with the
flu
on average we lose from 26,000 to 78,000
people here even more than that and some
some cases some years we haven't lost
anybody yet if we could hold that down
as we're saying to a hundred thousand
it's a horrible number maybe even less
but to a hundred thousand so we have
between a hundred and two hundred
thousand we altogether of done a very
good job the Democrat policy of open
borders is a direct threat to the health
and well-being of all Americans now you
see it with the coronavirus you see it
you see it with the karana my we must
put politics aside stop the partisanship
and unified together as one nation and
one family now the virus that we're
talking about having to do you know a
lot of people think that goes away in
April with the heat but they think
August could be July to be longer than
that
I don't think you'll be back because I
really think learn you know extremely
good shape today I am officially
declaring a national emergency two very
big words when you have 15 people and
the 15 within a couple of days is going
to be down to close to zero that's a
pretty good job with two I've been
watching them bring in trailer trucks
meet the freezer trucks the freezer
trucks because they can't handle the
bodies there's so many of them we've
done an incredible job we're going to
continue it's going to disappear one day
it's like a miracle it will disappear
people were saying well let's just write
it out this is not to be written out
because then you would have been looking
at potentially 2.2 million people more
2.2 million people in a relatively short
period of time he said yesterday that
they believe it's inevitable that the
virus will spread in the United States
and it's not a question of if but when
do you agree with that assessment well I
don't think it's inevitable I probably
will it possibly will the modeling
estimates that the peak in death rate is
likely to hit in two weeks
so I'll say it again the peak the
highest point of death rates
remember this is likely to hit in two
weeks we have a big one in Tampa all
sold out we have over a hundred thousand
requests for tickets but I think we'll
probably not do it because people would
say it's better than not to spoke to the
White House doctor terrific guy talented
guy
he said he sees no reason to do it
there's no symptoms no anything I also
put the test and I decided I should
based on the press conference yesterday
people were asking that I take the test
but anybody that needs a test can have a
test there also if your doctor doesn't
think you need it don't get the test
don't get the test I think it's very but
not everybody should run out and get the
test doctor foutch she said earlier this
week that the lag in testing was in fact
a failing do you take responsibility for
that and when can you guarantee that
every single American who needs a test
will be able to have a test what's the
date of that yeah no I don't take
responsibility at all we have now tested
with the best test far more than anybody
else we want to see anybody else I'm
talking about other countries no country
is even close late last night I had a
very good talk with President Xi and we
talked about mostly about the corona
virus they're working really hard and I
think they're doing a very professional
job but I'm a little upset with China
I'll be honest with you because as much
as I like President Xi and as much as I
respect the country and they should have
told us about this UK basically has been
it's got the border it's got the first
strong borders and they're they're doing
a very good job they don't have very
much infection at this point and
hopefully they'll keep it that way all
of a sudden they went hard the other way
because they started seeing things that
weren't good so they were you know put
themselves in a little bit of a problem
now Boris tested positive and I hear
he's hope he's going to be fine going to
resorts here
avoid gathering in groups of more than
ten people avoid discretionary travel
and avoid eating and drinking in bars
restaurants and public food ports and
61% of the voters approve of Trump's
handling of the corona virus and the
number one on Facebook did you know is
number one of Facebook and I just found
out I'm number one of Facebook I thought
that was very nice and this is their new
hoax
but you know we did something that's
been pretty amazing we're 15 people in
this massive country and because of the
fact that we went early we went early we
could have had a lot more than that I
want to remind everyone here in our
nation's capital especially in Congress
that this is not the time for politics
endless partisan investigations here we
go again we have a situation with the
virus we've done a great job the press
won't give us credit for I say that
you're a terrible reporter that's what I
say it's a very nasty question and I
think it's a very bad signal that you're
putting out to the American people what
do you say to Americans who are upset
with you over the way you downplayed
this crisis over the last couple of
months we have it very much under
control in this country the corona virus
is very much under control in the USA
it's going to disappear it's like a
miracle it will disappear March 4th we
have a very small number of people in
this country infected March 10th we're
prepared we're doing a great job with it
it will go away just a calm it will go
away
what do you say to Americans will they
do got this one and I do want them to
stake up as well and I do want them to
stay calm and we are doing a great job
if you look at those individual
statements they're all true stay calm
it will go away you know it you know it
is going away and it will go away and
we're gonna have a great victory and
it's people like you and CNN that say
things like that that it's why people
just don't want to listen to CN anymore
you could ask a normal question the
statements I made or I want to keep the
country calm I don't want panic in the
country I could cause panic much better
than even you I could do much I would
make you look like a minor league player
but you know what I don't want to do
that I want to have our country become
and strong and fight and win and it will
go away and it is incredible the job
that all of these people are doing
putting them all together the
that they're doing I am very proud of
the job they're doing that Mike Pence is
doing that the task force has done that
Honeywell and Proctor and Gamble and
Mike and all of these people have done
I'm very proud it's it's almost a
miracle and it is the way it's all come
together and instead of asking a nasty
snarky question like that you should ask
a real question and other than that I'm
going to go to somebody else
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