The president said he was not comfortable with the 2020 White House race potentially becoming a referendum on his response to the coronavirus pandemic
President Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration’s management of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States represents “maybe our best work.”
“Well, I am, and I’m not,” Trump responded. “You know, it’s a very interesting thought. You know, I’ve built the greatest economy, and then it was turned off for good reason. We saved millions of lives by doing it. I think people are going to remember that.” “I hope it’s not solely on what I’ve done here because this is a very — this is like rubber. It’s very, very amorphous,” Trump explained. “But you know what, I think in a certain way — and I hope I can say this to you in a couple of months — I think in a certain way, maybe our best work has been on what we’ve done with Covid-19.”
The administration struggled to ramp up widespread coronavirus testing, especially in the outbreak’s early days, and the president himself has repeatedly promoted dangerous and untested remedies, including suggesting that Americans ingest or inject themselves with disinfectants.
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