Trump’s lies about coronavirus

204 lies about coronavirus, out of 2,526 false or misleading claims on the topic (8% rated lies). Each one links to the fact-check.

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  1. Aug 10, 2026 · RemarksWhen the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are given together in the combined MMR vaccine, “there could be a possibility they’re quite lethal.”
  2. Aug 10, 2026 · RemarksThere are vaccines the size of a “bottle of soda … poured into a little child’s body.”
  3. Jan 5, 2026 · Social postThe former U.S. childhood vaccine schedule called for babies to get “72 injections.”
  4. Sep 21, 2025 · Press conferenceSmall children are given “80 different vaccines.”
  5. Jan 23, 2024 · SpeechDemocrats “used COVID to cheat” in the 2020 election.
  6. Sep 14, 2023 · Interview“I really don’t know who gave (Dr. Anthony Fauci) the commendation.”
  7. Sep 14, 2023 · Interview“Florida sort of had a mandate because they were giving the vaccine, they were demanding everybody take the vaccine.”
  8. Jan 12, 2021 · Speech“As you probably know, in Tijuana, various parts of Mexico, the COVID -- it's got about 24 names I can call it, from 'COVID' to "China virus." I can call it the 'plague.' I call it the 'China plague.' A lot of…
  9. Dec 29, 2020 · Social post“Biden failed with Swine Flu!”
  10. Dec 11, 2020 · Social post“The Swine Flu (H1N1), and the attempt for a vaccine by the Obama Administration, with Joe Biden in charge, was a complete and total disaster.”
  11. Nov 26, 2020 · Remarks“Joe Biden failed with the swine flu, H1N1, totally failed with the swine flu.”
  12. Nov 21, 2020 · Social postJoe Biden was a total disaster in handling the H1N1 Swine Flu, would never have produced a Vaccine in record time (years ahead of schedule), and would do a terrible job of Vaccine delivery - But doesn't everybody…
  13. Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“You know, Joe Biden, he handled the Swine flu as one of the great catastrophes.”
  14. Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden personally ran the swine flu, right, the swine flu, H1N1, which he can never remember. He never says it. He says it, he goes N1H1. I said, "No." He failed horribly and he was a laughingstock all over…
  15. Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“Can you imagine, during the pandemic, there's, you know, Mexico's very heavily, unfortunately, infected. And it was a good thing that we had it up.”
  16. Nov 2, 2020 · Rally“Biden wouldn't have this stuff done for years. Well, he had his chance with the swine flu and totally blew it. Right. It was a disaster. It was a disaster anyway....he failed horribly. And he was a laughingstock all…
  17. Nov 2, 2020 · Social post“Biden was a pathetic laughing stock all over Washington for the horrible way he handled the H1N1 Swine Flu.”
  18. Nov 1, 2020 · Social post“Biden did a very POOR job of handling H1N1 Swine Flu, yet all he talks about is Covid, Covid, Covid, like he would actually know what he is doing. He doesn't.”
  19. Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“And he had his chance with the H1N1, he calls it... Swine Flu, which was a disaster.”
  20. Oct 30, 2020 · Rally“If Biden was in charge of this vaccine, just like the swine flu, he was in charge of -- H1N1, right, which he can never get right. He can't remember it. It's always messed up. Sometime he does N1H1, and I say, 'No.'…
  21. Oct 28, 2020 · Rally“We started doing ventilators. We didn't have ventilators.”
  22. Oct 28, 2020 · Rally“Remember Joe Biden with the H1N1, which he always reverses. H1N1, right? He goes N1H1, I said, 'No, Joe, it's the other.' The swine flu, right? It's the swine flu. He was a disaster.”
  23. Oct 27, 2020 · Remarks“Now Biden had the swine flu. He did the worst job that anybody has ever seen. Had no idea what he was doing.”
  24. Oct 27, 2020 · Social post“Joe Biden FAILED BADLY with the Swine Flu Epidemic. He knows nothing. All talk and no action!”
  25. Oct 27, 2020 · Rally“And he had a thing called the swine flu. It was a disaster, much less lethal.
  26. Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“We weren't prepared with ventilators. Our hospitals didn't have them, our governments didn't have them, our federal government didn't.”
  27. Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“Same with Pelosi, she was dancing in the streets. Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy. Crazy. She's crazy as a bedbug.”
  28. Oct 26, 2020 · Rally“If he would've done it like he did the h1n1 Swine Flu, one of the worst handled. That was an epidemic, it was a disaster. He had no idea what the hell he was doing, but you know that.”
  29. Oct 25, 2020 · Rally“Ventilators, what we did with ventilators. Nobody had -- we didn't have ventilators.”
  30. Oct 24, 2020 · Rally“The Covid has been very tough for them. Very, very tough. And frankly, it's a great time to have the wall, but Mexico has been very, uh, really hit hard. Hit very hard.”
  31. Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“Then [Hunter Biden] goes, he has no knowledge of energy whatsoever, anybody in this audience knows more. They didn't go to China. Let's go to China. He gets $1.5 billion to manage, meaning millions of dollars a year…
  32. Oct 23, 2020 · Social post“Joe Biden’s response to the H1N1 Swine Flu, far less lethal than Covid 19, was one of the weakest and worst in the history of fighting epidemics and pandemics. It was pathetic, those involved have said. Joe didn't…
  33. Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“And by the way, [Biden's] record H1N1 -- which he always reverses -- swine flu, was horrendous.”
  34. Oct 23, 2020 · Rally“And by the way when he did his H1N1, he calls it the opposite, right? The swine flu. It was one of the great, and far less lethal by the way, but it was one of the great catastrophes. Nobody knew what the hell they…
  35. Oct 22, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi said the same thing. She was dancing on the streets in Chinatown in San Francisco.”
  36. Oct 22, 2020 · Interview“And they didn't have the pandemic, although Biden did have a big problem with H1N1, which he says in reverse. With the H1N1 Swine Flu, and it was a disaster.”
  37. Oct 22, 2020 · InterviewFrankly, he ran the H1N1 swine flu and it was a total disaster, far less lethal. But he -- it was a total disaster.”
  38. Oct 17, 2020 · Rally“And I want to thank the President of Mexico, who happens to be a great guy and they do have a big COVID problem. This is a good time to have a wall because you know, we have that wall and it is not penetrable, it is…
  39. Oct 15, 2020 · Interview“Look how badly Biden handled -- I mean, he was so bad in handling the Swine flu, H1N1. Which he reverses, he can't get it right, he can't remember that -- I said, Joe, the H comes first before the N. But the H1N1…
  40. Oct 11, 2020 · Interview“In fact, she was dancing on the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco. And the reason she was, because she wanted the business to come in. She didn't want to close up the country.”
  41. Oct 9, 2020 · Interview“Biden did one of the worst jobs ever with the H1N1 Swine flu. Did a terrible job.”
  42. Oct 8, 2020 · Social post“Joe Biden has no plan for Coronavirus - ALL TALK! He was a disaster in his handling oh H1N1 Swine Flu.”
  43. Oct 8, 2020 · Video“He [Biden] had his chance with H1N1 Swine Flu, and it was one of the great disasters.”
  44. Oct 8, 2020 · Interview“He [Biden] did a horrible job of running it [swine flu].”
  45. Oct 7, 2020 · Social post“DEMS WANT TO SHUT YOUR CHURCHES DOWN, PERMANENTLY. HOPE YOU SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. VOTE NOW!”
  46. Sep 22, 2020 · Rally“What he doesn't say is, he did the worst job in the history of an epidemic or a pandemic with the swine flu.”
  47. Sep 22, 2020 · Interview“Joe Biden, if you look at what he did with the Swine flu, it was a disaster.”
  48. Sep 21, 2020 · Rally“What we've done in a very safe manner is amazing. Now remember this, Biden was in charge of the swine flu, right? It's called the H1N1, remember? He calls it the N1H1. I said, no, no, no, no, H comes before the N…
  49. Sep 21, 2020 · Interview“If Biden, who ran the swine flu -- he was the swine flu. It's the H1N1, which he reverses. He calls it the N1H1 because he doesn't have a good memory. But if Biden -- on the swine flu, if he ran this like he did the…
  50. Sep 20, 2020 · Interview“The trending in Twitter is just some guy -- I think I know who it is just picking whatever he can, like hydroxychloroquine. They had it trending for weeks and weeks and weeks. That's not a trend. They just try to make…
  51. Sep 18, 2020 · Social post“Sleepy Joe doesn't have a clue, just look at what his own people said about his handling of the Swine Flu. It was a disaster!”
  52. Sep 18, 2020 · Remarks“Joe Biden. He had a thing called swine flu. It was a disaster. Much easier to handle. Much less severe. But it was a disaster.”
  53. Sep 17, 2020 · Rally“You know this guy [Biden] did the swine flu, right? It was a catastrophe.”
  54. Sep 16, 2020 · Interview“If you go to the last administration, the FDA was a disaster. They were a disaster on the swine flu, and the swine flu, which is H1N1.”
  55. Sep 16, 2020 · Press conference“I was reading where Biden was saying that, oh, he's going to have a plan. They did so bad on swine flu, you wouldn't even believe it.”
  56. Sep 15, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi was standing in the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco late -- a month -- more than a month after that -- saying this thing's totally exaggerated.”
  57. Sep 13, 2020 · Rally“I was months early [in calling for closures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus]. Nancy Pelosi was a month and a half later saying, ‘Come to Chinatown. Let's come to Chinatown.’”
  58. Sep 12, 2020 · Rally“When Biden was vice president, he was a complete disaster on the swine flu, which was a much easier thing to handle.”
  59. Sep 10, 2020 · Press conference“We had no ventilators, Jon.”
  60. Sep 10, 2020 · Rally“They needed a ventilator and we had nothing.”
  61. Sep 10, 2020 · Press conference“The swine flu was a disaster, you remember, when -- not nearly as deadly, not -- not the same world. But when Joe Biden was Vice President, his failed approach to the swine flu was disastrous. He called it -- he…
  62. Sep 3, 2020 · Interview“Wall will be finished very, very shortly. Had a huge impact. The border is now secure, and especially with the pandemic, because Mexico's a very heavily infected country.”
  63. Sep 3, 2020 · Rally“Then two months later, two and a half, three, and Nancy Pelosi was having dances in Chinatown, right? A month later.”
  64. Sep 3, 2020 · Rally“Joe Biden got the worst marks you've ever seen for his handling of the H1NI Swine Flu.”
  65. Sep 3, 2020 · Social post“'Sleepy Joe Biden' was acknowledged by his own people to have done a terrible job on a much easier situation, H1N1 Swine Flu. The OBiden Administration failed badly on this, & now he sits back in his basement and…
  66. Aug 22, 2020 · Social post“Many doctors and studies disagree with this! [FDA is revoking its emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine]!”
  67. Aug 18, 2020 · Remarks“Well, they [Obama] get very bad reviews [on H1N1 flu]. If you look at the Gallup poll -- Gallup poll did a review of them. Now, you have to understand, that was a far lesser vicious disease. It was not the same -- in…
  68. Aug 18, 2020 · Social post“Looking back into history, the response by the ObamaBiden team to the H1N1 Swine Flu was considered a weak and pathetic one. Check out the polling, it’s really bad. The big difference is that they got a free pass from…
  69. Aug 17, 2020 · Interview“We have a stockpile. We had no stockpile; we had nothing in this country. And now we have a stockpile, a tremendous stockpile that can handle anything...we didn't have ventilators and neither did governors have…
  70. Aug 17, 2020 · Rally“We didn't have very many ventilators at all. Way under-supplied.”
  71. Aug 17, 2020 · Interview“Those 280 miles I built have stopped like hundreds of thousands of people. Mexico is heavy, heavy COVID territory. They are highly infected. I built the wall and that wall has stopped people from coming in.”
  72. Aug 17, 2020 · Remarks“They needed a lot of help because they [ventilators] weren't stockpiled, and we now stockpile them.”
  73. Aug 17, 2020 · Rally“Lucky we have the wall, we're up to 300 miles almost. If we didn't have that wall, we would be inundated with people and unfortunately, and we're helping them, we sent them a lot of ventilators and other equipment…
  74. Aug 17, 2020 · Rally“He was, by the way, a disaster on swine flu. He got a horrible rating in Gallup. Look at the Gallup poll. So they call it H1N1 right? You remember? H1 swine flu, H1N1.”
  75. Aug 11, 2020 · Interview“This hydroxychloroquine, a lot of doctors swear by it, by my saying, it's good...As soon as I came out with it, they said, 'Oh, it doesn't work.' They went crazy. They still are on Twitter. It's number one all the…
  76. Aug 10, 2020 · Remarks“We're getting close to 280 miles, 280 miles [of wall] in the most important areas. So that's helping us a lot in terms of not having people come into the country who are infected with the coronavirus.”
  77. Aug 10, 2020 · Remarks“And at the beginning there was a big shortage of ventilators. Nobody had stockpiles or anything comparable to what you had to have.”
  78. Aug 6, 2020 · Speech“And you remember, at the very beginning, when you first heard about this whole horrible situation with the China virus, ventilators -- they weren't around.”
  79. Aug 5, 2020 · Interview“What we've done, from ventilators, where we had nothing, to making them now for the world.”
  80. Aug 5, 2020 · Interview“We're up to 276 miles of wall now. Thank goodness we have it, because Mexico is heavily infected, and we'd have a surge.”
  81. Aug 4, 2020 · Interview“But you would think -- and -- and because of the pandemic, because, as you know, Mexico is very heavily infected -- because of the wall, we're not getting a huge negative impact from Mexico, which is a tremendous…
  82. Aug 3, 2020 · Remarks“Hydroxy has tremendous support... Many doctors have come out strongly in favor of it. They want it very badly. It's a great malaria drug....Interestingly, a great doctor, from what I understand -- a great doctor from…
  83. Jul 31, 2020 · Remarks“We started off with essentially very little, and we've become a ventilator manufacturer, so to speak.”
  84. Jul 29, 2020 · Remarks“And with hydroxy, all I want to do is save lives. I don't care if it's hydroxy or anything else. All I want to do is save lives. If we can save lives, that's great. … But I happen to be a believer in hydroxy. I used…
  85. Jul 28, 2020 · Press conference“Many doctors think it is extremely successful -- the hydroxychloroquine -- coupled with the zinc and perhaps the azithromycin. But many doctors think it's extremely good, and some people don't. Some people -- I think…
  86. Jul 21, 2020 · Press conference“Under the old system, it would be a year to two years before you can even think about using the word 'testing.'”
  87. Jul 19, 2020 · Interview“But you take a look, why don't they talk about Mexico? Which is not helping us. And all I can say is thank God I built most of the wall, because if I didn't have the wall up we would have a much bigger problem with…
  88. Jul 14, 2020 · Interview“So the radical left Democrats, whoever you call them, anything you want, they had a thing about hydroxychloroquine because of the fact that I, one day said, hey, I think it's good. I heard good things. There was some…
  89. Jul 14, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi, a month later, was talking about there's no problem. She was celebrating on the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco.”
  90. Jul 14, 2020 · Press conference“Nancy Pelosi was dancing on the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco a month later, and even later than that, and others too. They all thought what I did was a terrible mistake.”
  91. Jul 14, 2020 · Press conference“And if you look at the job he did on swine flu -- I looked at a poll -- they have polls on everything nowadays -- and he -- they got very bad marks on the job they did on the swine flu, H1N1. He calls it 'N1H1.' H1N1.…
  92. Jul 14, 2020 · Press conference“And by the way, the wall was so timely, because it stopped people coming in from heavily infected areas of Mexico. If we had that, we would be in trouble like you wouldn't believe. You wouldn't believe.”
  93. Jul 10, 2020 · Remarks“We literally had no ventilators.”
  94. Jul 10, 2020 · Remarks“Especially with covid -- that turned out to be very lucky for us that we had the wall, or we would have been inundated, because they do have some big problems.”
  95. Jul 6, 2020 · Social post“‘Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System.…
  96. Jul 6, 2020 · Social post“The highly respected Henry Ford Health System just reported, based on a large sampling, that HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE cut the death rate in certain sick patients very significantly. The Dems disparaged it for political…
  97. Jul 4, 2020 · Speech“We've made ventilators where there were none by the tens of thousands, to the point that we have far more than we need.”
  98. Jul 4, 2020 · Speech“We show cases, 99 percent of which are totally harmless.”
  99. Jun 25, 2020 · Interview“You take the virus and you have open borders. We would be in trouble like you've never seen because you know the trouble that Mexico's got.”
  100. Jun 25, 2020 · Speech“We're now making thousands of ventilators a week. When we started, we weren't making ventilators. We didn't have them and other people didn't have them. We had very few.”
  101. Jun 25, 2020 · Interview“We did the ventilators. We didn't have any ventilators. We did the ventilators. We did so much.”
  102. Jun 25, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi and many other people, including Republicans were -- months later, they were saying, you know, ‘Let's go to Chinatown and celebrate.’ Nancy Pelosi was celebrating on the streets of … in the streets of…
  103. Jun 23, 2020 · Remarks“Using our emergency public health authorities, we prevented a coronavirus catastrophe on the southern border, shutting down human smuggling and swiftly returning the crossers. … Without these public health measures…
  104. Jun 23, 2020 · Speech“Nancy Pelosi. She wanted to dance in the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco, long after I banned China from coming here.”
  105. Jun 18, 2020 · Social post“Biden got failing grades and polls on his clueless handling of the Swine Flu H1N1. It was a total disaster, they had no idea what they were doing. Among the worst ever!”
  106. Jun 17, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi was dancing in the streets of Chinatown at the end of February.”
  107. Jun 15, 2020 · Remarks“We've had some great reports [on hydroxychloroquine] from -- coming out of France, coming out of Spain, coming out of other places. The only place we don't get necessarily reports are coming out of Alex's agency or…
  108. Jun 3, 2020 · Interview“We did a great job on ventilators. We're giving them now to countries all over the world -- we're making them. When I started we had practically none.”
  109. May 28, 2020 · Remarks“Fortunately, we have brand-new wall along there, and the wall is saving us.”
  110. May 26, 2020 · Social post“Joe Biden’s handling of the H1N1 Swine Flu was a complete and total disaster. Even polls on the matter were terrible!”
  111. May 24, 2020 · Interview“I've heard tremendous reports about it [hydroxychloroquine]. Frankly, I've heard tremendous reports. Many people think it saved their lives. Doctors come out with reports. You had a study in France, you had a study in…
  112. May 23, 2020 · Social post“Many physicians agree with you. Also, some very good studies! @SteveFDA @US_FDA [quoting a tweet that says hydroxychloroquine ‘Is Most Effective EARLY For #COVIDー19’]”
  113. May 22, 2020 · Speech“We didn't have ventilators.”
  114. May 22, 2020 · Speech“Nancy Pelosi, a month later, was in Chinatown in San Francisco. She's dancing in the streets of Chinatown, trying to say, 'It's okay to come to the United States. It's fine. It's wonderful. Come on in. Bring your…
  115. May 21, 2020 · Remarks“Nancy Pelosi, a month later, was dancing in the streets of San Francisco in Chinatown so that people wouldn't believe what's happening.”
  116. May 21, 2020 · Speech“As you remember, we took over empty cupboards. The cupboards were bare. And we got into the business of ventilators and testing and all of these other things.”
  117. May 20, 2020 · Social post“The Fake News knows this. Thanks Katie! [quoting a tweet that says, ‘… an overwhelming majority of doctors would prescribe hydroxychloroquine or another anti-malaria drug to a family member suffering from Wuhan…
  118. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“We had none [no ventilators], essentially. We had very few, and they were obsolete. They were broken.”
  119. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“There was a false study done where they gave it to very sick people -- extremely sick people, people that were ready to die. It was given by, obviously, not friends of the administration. And the study came out. The…
  120. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“And if you look at the one survey, the only bad survey [of hydroxychloroquine], they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old, almost dead.”
  121. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“And [hydroxychloroquine is] just a line of defense. I'm just talking about it as a line of defense [against covid-19].”
  122. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“A lot of our frontline workers take [hydroxychloroquine] because it possibly, and I think it does, but you know, people are going to have to make up their own mind.”
  123. May 19, 2020 · Remarks“ But [hydroxychloroquine] seems to be very safe. But that study was a phony study put out by the VA.”
  124. May 18, 2020 · Social post“Wow! The Front Page @washingtonpost Headline reads, “A BOOST IN TESTS, BUT LACK OF TAKERS.” We have done a great job on Ventilators, Testing, and everything else. Were left little by Obama.”
  125. May 18, 2020 · Remarks“I'm taking it -- hydroxychloroquine. Right now. Yeah. A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it....Because I think it's good. I've heard a lot of good stories. And if it's not good, I'll tell you right -- you know…
  126. May 18, 2020 · Remarks“He took a ventilator job where the country basically had no ventilators.”
  127. May 15, 2020 · Remarks“You know, if you remember where we started, we had no ventilators.”
  128. May 14, 2020 · Remarks“So we have had some great response, in terms of doctors writing letters and people calling on the hydroxychloroquine. And this guy [former BARDA director Rick Bright] is fighting it. There's no reason to fight it.…
  129. May 14, 2020 · Remarks“But during the H1N1 -- and that's the swine flu -- and it was a pandemic in '09 that was not well handled at all. It got very poor marks.”
  130. May 10, 2020 · Social post“… the Obama/Sleepy Joe disaster known as H1N1 Swine Flu. Poor marks, bad polls - didn't have a clue!”
  131. May 8, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi a month later was saying 'let's go to Chinatown and dance in the streets' because she wanted people, you know, and I'd understand that, nobody thought it would be like this.”
  132. May 8, 2020 · Remarks“Late in February, she [Nancy Pelosi] was in Chinatown in San Francisco celebrating, because ‘this disease is going to be nothing.’”
  133. May 6, 2020 · Remarks“When we started, we didn't have ventilators.”
  134. May 5, 2020 · Interview“Nancy Pelosi was out there at the end of February, talking about let's go dancing in Chinatown in San Francisco, because she wanted to prove that there was no problem. But there was a problem.”
  135. May 3, 2020 · Interview“We had no -- there were no ventilators.”
  136. May 3, 2020 · Interview“Way early, I closed our country to China. Nancy Pelosi was a month later saying, it's going to pass....On, I think, it was February 26, Nancy Pelosi is, let's dance in the streets of Chinatown to show that it's not…
  137. May 3, 2020 · Interview“One study. One study. But there were studies that came out that say it's -- it's [hydroxychloroquine] very good too. And I will tell you what. I have had three calls in the last three days, four days, of people that…
  138. May 3, 2020 · Interview“Look how badly they did on swine flu, the H1N1, which he calls the opposite -- H1 -- it's H1N1, swine flu. Look how badly they did on that.”
  139. Apr 30, 2020 · Remarks“We had a ventilator problem that was caused by the fact that we weren't left ventilators by a previous administration. The cupboards were bare, as I say often.”
  140. Apr 30, 2020 · Remarks“But here's what's very important: If you take a look at the swine flu, H1N1 -- or, as Joe Biden would say, N1H1, but it's actually wrong. He didn't even know the name, okay? H1N1, the swine flu -- the Obama…
  141. Apr 28, 2020 · Remarks“Well, I think [about covid-19] probably a lot more to the Democrats, because a month later, Nancy Pelosi was saying, 'Let's dance in the streets of Chinatown.'”
  142. Apr 27, 2020 · Press conference“But I could tell you that Nancy Pelosi was dancing in the streets in Chinatown. She wanted to go, 'Let's go out and party.' That was late into February.”
  143. Apr 24, 2020 · Remarks“I never spoke to a scientist. But I will tell you this: I did speak with the President of Honduras just a little while ago, and I didn't bring it up; he brought it up. He said they use the hydroxychloroquine. And he…
  144. Apr 22, 2020 · Press conference“When Nancy Pelosi, as an example -- you don't say this -- when she's having her rally in San Francisco -- in Chinatown, in San Francisco. Nobody wants to say that.”
  145. Apr 21, 2020 · Press conference“Plus, we put the ban on so much earlier. When Nancy Pelosi, as an example -- you don't say this -- when she's having her rally in San Francisco -- in Chinatown, in San Francisco. Nobody wants to say that. If we didn't…
  146. Apr 20, 2020 · Press conference“Nancy Pelosi was having -- she wanted to have a street party in Chinatown in San Francisco at the end of February. That's a month later.”
  147. Apr 19, 2020 · Press conference“But I closed it up long before Pelosi -- Listen. Long before Pelosi. You know, she was having parties in San Francisco. ‘Let's all go to Chinatown.’ And that was a long time after the first.”
  148. Apr 17, 2020 · Social post“Biden/Obama were a disaster in handling the H1N1 Swine Flu. Polling at the time showed disastrous approval numbers. 17,000 people died unnecessarily and through incompetence! Also, don’t forget their 5 Billion Dollar…
  149. Apr 16, 2020 · Social post“Crazy Nancy Pelosi deleted this from her Twitter account. She wanted everyone to pack into Chinatown long after I closed the BORDER TO CHINA. Based on her statement, she is responsible for many deaths. She’s an…
  150. Apr 15, 2020 · Press conference“I did that very early. By the way, I did that very early, while Nancy Pelosi was trying to have, in San Francisco, parties in Chinatown. Because they -- she thought it would be great. She wanted to show that this…
  151. Apr 14, 2020 · Remarks“We have tremendous endorsements [of hydroxychloroquine]. But if it were somebody else other than President Trump that put it forward -- if some other person put it forward, they'd say, ‘Oh, let's go with it.’ You…
  152. Apr 13, 2020 · Press conference“They had the H1N1, which is swine flu, and that was a big failure. That was a tremendous failure.”
  153. Apr 13, 2020 · Press conference“But, in February, Nancy Pelosi said we should come to Chinatown. This is late February. 'Come to Chinatown. We think it's very safe. Come here. Let's all have the big parade -- Chinatown parade.'”
  154. Apr 13, 2020 · Press conference“And you combine [Hydroxychloroquine] with Z-Pak, you combine it with Zinc -- depending on your doctor's recommendation. And it's having some very good results, I'll tell you.”
  155. Apr 8, 2020 · Press conference“My administration is taking unprecedented actions to make new therapies and treatments available without delay. The doctors, the lab technicians, the companies -- I spoke to them yesterday; I spoke again today. They…
  156. Apr 7, 2020 · Press conference“The side effects? The side effects are the least of it. You have people dying all over the place. And generally, the side effects are really with the Z-Pak having to do with the heart. The Z-Pak -- that's the…
  157. Apr 7, 2020 · Interview“But the combination -- and some people add zinc. But the combination has been pretty amazing [that hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin cure covid-19].”
  158. Apr 7, 2020 · Interview“And they're finding that people that -- like in the malaria countries, that it doesn't seem that those countries have been hit, because the people take it. You have countries that have massive malaria problems and…
  159. Apr 6, 2020 · Press conference“Take a look at the swine flu. Right? That's H1N1. Take a look at that. And it's not the other way around, by the way. It's H1N1. Take a look -- you know what I mean by that. Take a look at the swine flu. It was a…
  160. Apr 5, 2020 · Press conference“No, [hydroxychloroquine is] not going to -- it's not going to hurt people. It can help them, but it's not going to hurt them.”
  161. Apr 5, 2020 · Press conference“And the other thing that we bought a tremendous amount of is the hydroxychloroquine -- hydroxychloroquine -- which I think -- as you know, it's a great malaria drug. It's worked unbelievably. It's this powerful drug…
  162. Apr 4, 2020 · Social post“I agree with [Hydroxychloroquine being the most effective therapy]. Watch!”
  163. Apr 4, 2020 · Press conference“And there's also other studies, you know, with the malaria, that the malaria countries have very little -- people that take [hydroxychloroquine] for malaria, which is very effective for malaria -- that those countries…
  164. Apr 4, 2020 · Press conference“And there's a -- there's a study out that people with lupus aren't catching this horrible virus. They're not -- they're not affected so much by it. Now, maybe that's correct; maybe it's false. You're going to have to…
  165. Apr 4, 2020 · Press conference“And the hydroxychloroquine is a -- I hope it's going to be a very important answer. We're having some very good things happening with it, and we're going to be distributing it through the Strategic National Stockpile.…
  166. Apr 3, 2020 · Press conference“Hydroxychloroquine -- I don't know, it's looking like it's having some good results. That would be a phenomenal thing.”
  167. Apr 2, 2020 · Press conference“I cut off China very early. And if I didn’t, we would have a chart that you wouldn't believe. So how would I know to do that? ...I mean, you have to make a decision. People knew that some bad things were going on, and…
  168. Mar 30, 2020 · Interview“When you look at South Korea, we'll do more [covid-19 tests] in eight days than they do in eight weeks.”
  169. Mar 26, 2020 · Press conference“So in eight days -- in eight days, we do more testing than [South Korea] did in eight weeks.”
  170. Mar 26, 2020 · Interview“Now, I think that we inherited a broken system from the previous administrations, not just one. And it was very broken. It was a system of — of tests.”
  171. Mar 26, 2020 · Interview“But the H1N1, the Swine Flu, people don't even remember it but it killed 17,000 people. That's a lot of people. A lot.... 17,000 people [died in this country]. So that's, you know, they -- they acted very, very late.…
  172. Mar 26, 2020 · Interview“And we've done things that are pretty amazing. If we're using certain medications that are used in other aspects of life or, you know, for other reasons, normally, it would take a long time to get it approved for…
  173. Mar 26, 2020 · Press conference“And that was obsolete and broken, and we fixed it and it's been going really good.”
  174. Mar 25, 2020 · Press conference“We've come a long way from an obsolete, broken system that I inherited.”
  175. Mar 25, 2020 · Press conference“We're also doing some very large testings throughout the country. I told you yesterday that, in South Korea -- and this is not a knock in any way because I just spoke with President Moon; we had a very good…
  176. Mar 25, 2020 · Social post“Over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span. Great job!”
  177. Mar 24, 2020 · Interview“We've done more testing than South Korea. Now, you're not going to read that in the newspaper because they don't like to write things like that. But I’d love you to say that one more time because that — that’s a big…
  178. Mar 24, 2020 · Press conference“We kept hearing about South Korea. … In eight days, we're doing more testing than they've done in eight weeks. That's a tremendous turn.”
  179. Mar 23, 2020 · Press conference“One of the things we fixed -- if you look at the obsolete system that this administration inherited, it wasn't meant for this.”
  180. Mar 23, 2020 · Press conference“I'm pleased to report that clinical trials in New York will begin existing for existing drugs that may prove effective against the virus. At my direction, the federal government is working to help obtain large…
  181. Mar 23, 2020 · Social post“A great early result from a drug that will start tomorrow in New York and other places! #COVIDー19”
  182. Mar 22, 2020 · Press conference“There's been some tremendous signs that this could work. Now, again, you know, some doctors think it should go for years in testing. But, you know, this has been something that's been around for many years. It's been…
  183. Mar 22, 2020 · Press conference“If you look in, let's say, the H1N1 -- you look at that whole -- that was a disaster. That was a tough period of time for our country.”
  184. Mar 22, 2020 · Press conference“But remember: We inherited a broken, obsolete system. It was good for a small number of people, but not good for the millions of people that we're talking about.”
  185. Mar 21, 2020 · Press conference“We took over an obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn't have worked for even a small problem, let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history.”
  186. Mar 21, 2020 · Social post“HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works…
  187. Mar 20, 2020 · Press conference“We inherited an obsolete deal [for testing] and we've made a good thing out of it. I haven't heard that question in a while, but go ahead.”
  188. Mar 20, 2020 · Press conference“And this is not a drug that -- obviously, I think I can speak for a lot of -- from a lot of experience, because it's been out there for over 20 years. So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with.…
  189. Mar 19, 2020 · Press conference“So the really danger part of the drugs -- especially chloroquine -- it's been out there for years. So we know it's something that can be taken safely. So it's very important.”
  190. Mar 19, 2020 · Press conference“I think that's a tremendous -- there's tremendous promise, based on the results and other tests. There's tremendous promise. And normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it's -- it…
  191. Mar 17, 2020 · Press conference“And if you look at swine flu -- the whole thing in, I guess it was 2009, and what they did and the mistakes they've made, they were terrible. They were horrific mistakes. Seventeen thousand people died. And I'll be…
  192. Mar 15, 2020 · Social post“The USA was never set up for this, just look at the catastrophe of the H1N1 Swine Flu (Biden in charge, 17,000 people lost, very late response time), but it soon will be.”
  193. Mar 13, 2020 · Press conference“We had some very old and obsolete rules that we had to live with. It worked under certain circumstances but not under mass circumstances. They were there for a long time; they were in place for a long time. And we're…
  194. Mar 13, 2020 · Social post“Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”
  195. Mar 13, 2020 · Social post“For decades the @CDCgov looked at, and studied, its testing system, but did nothing about it. It would always be inadequate and slow for a large scale pandemic, but a pandemic would never happen, they hoped. President…
  196. Mar 13, 2020 · Press conference“And, interestingly, if you go back -- please -- if you go back to the swine flu, it was nothing like this. They didn't do testing like this. And actually, they lost approximately 14,000 people. And they didn't do the…
  197. Mar 12, 2020 · Remarks“If you go back and look at the swine flu and what happened with the swine flu, you'll see how many people died and how actually nothing was done for such a long period of time, as people were dying all over the place.…
  198. Mar 11, 2020 · Speech“We are cutting massive amounts of red tape to make antiviral therapies available in record time.”
  199. Mar 10, 2020 · Remarks“I think the U.S. has done a very good job on testing. We had to change things that were done, that were nobody's fault. Perhaps they wanted to do something a different way, but it was a much slower process from a…
  200. Mar 10, 2020 · Social post“Going up fast. We need the Wall more than ever!”
  201. Mar 5, 2020 · Social post“The April 2009-10 Swine Flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the U.S., was poorly handled. Ask MSDNC & lightweight Washington failure @RonaldKlain, who the President was then?”
  202. Mar 5, 2020 · Interview“I want to get everybody to understand, they made some decisions which were not good decisions. We inherited decisions that [the Obama administration] made...We undid some of the regulations that were made that made it…
  203. Mar 4, 2020 · Remarks“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we're doing.”
  204. Mar 4, 2020 · Interview“I will say, though, the H1N1, that was swine flu, commonly referred to as swine flu. And that went from around April of '09 to April of '10, where there were 60 million cases of swine flu. And over -- actually, it's…