“It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better,” Trump acknowledged. “Something I don’t like saying about things, but that’s the…
“It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better,” Trump acknowledged. “Something I don’t like saying about things, but that’s the way it is.”
Trump returned to the podium Tuesday in an effort to respond to criticism surrounding his administration’s response to the coronavirus as cases continue to surge in several states. In a major departure from his recent events, Trump tread lightly around politics, never once mentioning his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, during the 27-minute briefing.
“We’re asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask,” Trump said in perhaps his most explicit endorsement on that issue to date. “Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they’ll have an effect. We need everything we can get.”
Despite the warnings, Trump offered a generally rosy assessment of his administration’s response to the virus, saying scientists have “learned so much about this disease” and predicting vaccines would be coming “a lot sooner than anyone thought possible.”
He repeated his assertion the virus will eventually “disappear,” a line that has drawn criticism from his Democratic opponents in the past.
“Moments after reading from his script and saying the outbreak would get worse before it gets better, Trump just reverted to his lie that the virus will simply ‘disappear’ – an assumption that has had deadly consequences for thousands of innocent Americans,” Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates tweeted.
