1. I see no source/link of what you claim about what Trump said about Covid.
2. Even if you had a link, it wouldn't matter, because early on, when not much information was available yet, lots of people (includingDemocrats) were minimizing the Covid threat (ex. Nancy Pelosi shopping in population congested San Francisco Chinatown (without a mask), encouraging people to come there and shop, rather than staying at home.
3. Eventually, the entire Covid scenario DID become a hoax, and still is, as the Covid death rate has been overstated (Comorbidities gone wild and reported as Covid), and is currently reported on the liberal media as being ludicrously higher than it actually is (as a result of hospitals profiting big bucks$$$ from the CARES Act)
4. The economy in 2020 is generally not a year that can be correlated with Trump, because too much of it was lockdowns of the pandemic. Note that when Republicans began to denounce the lockdowns, and businesses reopened in the 3rd quarter of 2020, we had the BIGGEST GDP INCREASE in US history.
5. Before the Covid pandemic disrupted everything including the US economy, Trump's economy was extremely good, with record highs in the stock markets, very low unemployment, and gave us a recovery in 2017 over the disastrous sinking economy of Obama in 2016, as shown by the famous V-GRAPH (famous on conservative TV shows that is (never shown on CNN, MSNBC, PBS)
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6. BWK - you're getting an education. You're welcome.