“It’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it,” the president said
on CBS’ late-night show with Stephen Colbert, Trump told the journalist and author of the soon to be released bombshell bookTrump told Woodward that the virus was “easily transmissible” and relayed a story about how a sneeze during an Oval Office meeting in the White House cleared the room.
“Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it,” Trump said. “I mean, you could be in the room… I was in the White House a couple of days ago, meeting with 10 people in the Oval Office and a guy sneezed, innocently. Not a horrible — just a sneeze. The entire room bailed out, OK? Including me, by the way.”
In a telling sign of just how bad Trump was mishandling the pandemic publicly, on the same day of the recordings, Trump defended himself during a press conference, justifying retweeting one of his supporters who was asking for Anthony Fauci to be fired.April 13: Trump tells Woodward virus “is a killer… It is the plague”
April 13: “It’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it…In the Oval Office a guy sneezed. The entire room bailed out, including me”
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