Fact check: President Trump says his tone on coronavirus hasn't changed much at all. But from January until last week, Trump consistently minimized the risk the coronavirus posed to the country.
Trump was asked Tuesday about his change in tone. He responded by claiming that his tone hadn't changed much at all."I mean, I have seen that, where people actually liked it. But I didn't feel different," he said at a White House press briefing."I've always known, this is a real -- this is a real -- this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries...
Read MoreOn Monday, Trump acknowledged that the situation is"bad," that the virus is not under control, that the country might well be heading into a recession, and that American life would not get back to normal for months. He had not made such statements before.Trump has pointed to his late-January decision to restrict travel from China as evidence that he had always considered the situation"urgent." But he certainly had not clearly communicated that he felt such urgency.
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