CNBC reports:
President Donald Trump reiterated Wednesday that the coronavirus will “go away,” and he continued to push for schools to reopen since the virus “doesn’t have much of an impact” on children.
“It’s going away. It’ll go away. Things go away. No question in my mind that it will go away,” Trump said during a White House press briefing. “They may get it, but they get it and it doesn’t have much of an impact on them,” he said. “For whatever reason the China virus, children handle it very well.”
While experts do agree that children are less likely to fall seriously ill from the coronavirus, studies have shown that children over 9 years old can spread the coronavirus as well as adults.
Asked about his abject nonsense about how the virus is going away like things go away, Trump responds by saying the same thing: “It’s going away. It’ll go away like things go away.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 5, 2020
President Trump: “It’s going away. It’s going away. It’s going away. It’ll go away. Things go away. Absolutely. No question in my mind, it’ll go away.” pic.twitter.com/hfQTdgAwye
— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2020
"As soon as I said you should have a new election … all of a sudden they announced a winner … did they do something for the opponent?" — Trump thinks the fact that Carolyn Maloney was declared the winner of her Democratic primary is a conspiracy against him pic.twitter.com/8rP5I08CUx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2020
"Somebody left some terrible explosive-type devices and things around, perhaps. Perhaps it was that. Perhaps it was an attack" — Trump is just out here conjecturing about the Beirut explosion. Absurdly irresponsible. pic.twitter.com/lLBKD9q89O
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2020
"There is no Hatch Act" — Trump dismisses legal concerns about him turning the White House into a political prop for his RNC speech pic.twitter.com/gm9d0MAFeB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2020