«It’ll be going away and they scream, ‘How can you say that?'» Trump said. «I said, ‘Because it’s going to be going away.'»
President Donald Trump insisted the coronavirus was «going away» in an interview Thursday morning, one day after the country reported its single-day record for COVID-19-related deaths since May. During an appearance on the Fox Business Network with host Maria Bartiromo, Trump said that «nobody blames me» for the pandemic, which has upended the entire world, causing over 166,000 deaths in the U. S. alone. The president dug into China specifically, alleging that the country deliberately passed on the virus to the U. S. and that it «should’ve never been allowed to happen.» «But the fact is, this plague came in and I closed it up, saved millions of lives, and now we’re reopening,» he said, a remark Trump has repeated numerous times. Get your unlimited Newsweek trial > He went on to tout America’s «tremendous» stock market, which he said has bounced back nearly to the place it was at before the pandemic.
