Now that he has reportedly decided not to participate in the daily Coronvirus Task Force press conferences, President Donald Trump has returned to using Twitter to spread his own brand of “fake news,” suggesting that the pandemic is headed for a “miracle end.”
On Saturday morning, Trump attacked Democrats for daring to run negative campaign ads against him and then made his prediction about COVID-19:
The Do Nothing Democrats are spending much of their money on Fake Ads. I never said that the CoronaVirus is a “Hoax”, I said that the Democrats, and the way they lied about it, are a Hoax. Also, it did start with “one person from China”, and then grew, & will be a “Miracle” end!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020
For the record, Trump did indeed use the word “hoax” while discussing the coronavirus at a campaign rally in late February. As Snopes notes:
“During a Feb. 28, 2020, campaign rally in South Carolina, President Donald Trump likened the Democrats’ criticism of his administration’s response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying ‘this is their new hoax.’ During the speech he also seemed to downplay the severity of the outbreak, comparing it to the common flu.”
But it was his “miracle end” assertion that drew the most scorn on social media:
50,000 dead Americans is a “miracle” to you?
— ??McAuley?? (@McauleyHolmes) April 25, 2020
What crazy treatments will you recommend for COVID today?
— Josh Decker (@joshdecker97) April 25, 2020
Everything Trump said here is a lie.
– He did say it was a hoax.
– It didn’t start with one person from China. Most cases in New York City came from Europe.
– There will not be a miracle end, unless tens of thousands of lives lost is considered a miracle.— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) April 25, 2020
Let’s go to the video…https://t.co/jz3pfWbW3B
— Tom Shafer (@TomShafShafer) April 25, 2020
The Do Nothing Democrats are spending much of their money on Fake Ads. I never said that the CoronaVirus is a “Hoax”, I said that the Democrats, and the way they lied about it, are a Hoax. Also, it did start with “one person from China”, and then grew, & will be a “Miracle” end!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020
Dude you’re on video saying all the things you tell us you didn’t say.
Also it’s nice to know Dems’ ads are getting under your thin skin ?— Comfortably Numb? (@YGalanter) April 25, 2020
The “miracle end” millions of us are praying for is that Donald Trump will lose the election and be sent to prison for his many crimes.
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