On Tuesday, a somber President Trump acknowledged that under the best-case scenario, 100,000 to 200,000 Americans could die of coronavirus. “It’s not the flu,” he said, in stark contrast to when he compared it repeatedly with the flu in March.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Trump now says he knew the virus ‘could be horrible’ when he was saying things like ‘it’s going to disappear’
He didn’t want to tell Americans sooner because he didn’t want to be ‘negative,’ he says
Analysis by Amber Phillips
April 1, 2020 at 11:28 a.m. EDT