At the White House yesterday, a reporter asked President Trump if he would have asked President Obama to resign if 160,000 people had died in a viral pandemic?
The President replied:
The President replied:
" No, I wouldn’t have done that, it’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do. We’ve called it right, now we don’t have to close it, we understand the disease.
Nobody understood it because nobody’s ever seen anything like this. The closest thing is in 1917, they say, right, the great pandemic certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people.
Probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick. That was a terrible situation."