I’m a smart Republican
I elected Donald Trump
I don’t believe in climate change
Donald says it’s bunk
Donald wants to build a wall
And I’m all in with it
One thing this country never needs
Is filthy immigrants
Donald said the COVID bug
Was nothing too severe
Just go to work, forget the mask
It will miraculously disappear
My Donald, he’s no scientist
But he’s looking for a win
Despite no real evidence
Declared hydroxychloroquine
The cure, done deal
The Chosen One
Has had the final say
Just need some cooperation from
Those jerks at the FDA
Donald says the election was rigged
And why would Donald lie
Those dirty Dems just don’t play fair
For Donald I will die
Jan 6, what’s the big deal?
Patriots blessed from above
The Capital Police welcomed them in
A beautiful display of love
And now the Dems want to investigate
Like it was some kind of attack
Get off it man, let’s move on
No sense in looking back
And finally, these damn COVID vaccines
Get away from me with that
It’s all about government control
No way I’ll take that jab
So, as you can plainly see
I am very smart
Ain’t got much book learnin’
But I sure know how to fart
Enjoy my smell, America
I’ll be around for a while
Leadership in action. Donald Trump’s repeated claims that COVID will disappear.
20 January: ‘We have it under control’
On 20 January the US recorded its first case of coronavirus. Two days later Trump told CNBC: “It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
26 February: ‘It’s going to disappear’
In late February, by which time the US had recorded 60 cases of infection, Trump told a White House press briefing: “When you have 15 people … within a couple of days it’s going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
The following day he returned to the theme, saying: “It’s going to disappear. One day – it’s like a miracle – it will disappear.”
10 March: ‘It will go away’
By 10 March the coronavirus curve in the US was climbing steeply, with 37 official deaths and more than 1,000 confirmed cases
On that day, Trump emerged from a meeting with Republican senators to tell the media how well the US was doing. “We’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
29 April: ‘It’s gonna be gone’
Trump returned to the argument that the virus would just disappear at the end of April. The US had just notched up its millionth positive test for coronavirus, and reached 58,000 recorded deaths – an emotive figure given that it meant the virus had claimed more lives than the Vietnam war.
On 29 April, the president told reporters: “This is going away. It’s gonna go. It’s gonna leave. It’s gonna be gone. It’s going to be eradicated … If you have a flare-up in a certain area – I call them burning embers – boom, you put it out.”
11 May: ‘We have prevailed’
In a grandiose coronavirus briefing from the Rose Garden, Trump announced his administration was winning the fight against the virus. “We have met the moment, and we have prevailed. Americans do whatever it takes to find solutions, pioneer breakthroughs, and harness the energies we need to achieve a total victory.”
That day the death toll in the US hit 80,000.
17 June: ‘It’s fading away’
Trump carried on predicting that the disease would disappear of its own accord through June, a time when the virus was in fact spreading fast through huge swaths of the country. In a radio call to Fox News he said: “It’s fading away. It’s going to fade away. But having a vaccine would be really nice.”
19 July: ‘I’ll be right eventually’
Earlier this month, Fox News Sunday played back to Trump his many claims that the virus would disappear. The president shot back: “I’ll be right eventually. It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right.”
The show’s host, Chris Wallace, asked Trump whether dogged insistence that the virus would vanish, even while it proliferated, would discredit him. “I don’t think so, you know why?” he replied. “Because I’ve been right probably more than anybody else.”
Source: Above information was extracted from, The Guardian (online) article, “Six months of Trump’s Covid denials: ‘It’ll go away … It’s fading” July 29, 2020, by Ed Pilkinton; and corroborated by CNN’s online post “It’s going to disappear’: A timeline of Trump’s claims that Covid-19 will vanish” By Daniel Wolfe and Daniel Dale, Last updated October 31, 2020
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