Do you every get tired of being
WRONG?
When: Friday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 19
The claim: The coronavirus would weaken “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”
WRONG.
When: Thursday, February 27
The claim: The outbreak would be temporary:
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
WRONG
When: Multiple times
The claim: If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “
definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths.
WRONG
When: Multiple times
The claim: “Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere,” and cases are “coming way down.”
WRONG, Multiple Times.
When: Wednesday, June 17
The claim: The pandemic is “fading away. It’s going to fade away.”
WRONG
When: Thursday, July 2
The claim: The pandemic is “getting under control.”
WRONG
When: Monday, July 6
The claim: “We now have the lowest Fatality (Mortality) Rate in the World.”
WRONG
When: Multiple times
The claim: America is “rounding the corner” and “rounding the final turn” of the pandemic.
WRONG
When: Multiple times
The claim: A CDC study shows that “85 percent of the people wearing masks catch” the virus.
WRONG
When: Friday, March 13
The claim: The
Obama White House’s response to the H1N1 pandemic was “a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”
The truth: Barack Obama declared a public-health emergency two weeks after the first U.S. cases of H1N1 were reported, in California. (Trump declared a national emergency more than seven weeks after the first domestic COVID-19 case was reported.
WRONG
When: Multiple times
The claim: The Trump White House “inherited” a “broken,” “bad,” and “obsolete” test for the coronavirus.
The truth: The novel coronavirus did not exist in humans during the Obama administration. Public-health experts
agree that, because of that fact, the CDC could
not have produced a test, and thus a new test had to be developed this year.
WRONG
When: Friday, March 6, and Monday, May 11
The claim: “
Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful” and “
If somebody wants to be tested right now, they’ll be able to be tested.”
The truth: Trump made these two claims two months apart, but the truth was the same both times:
The U.S. did not have enough testing.
WRONG
There are MORE.
trump is WRONG a lot.