as he and his supporters continued to downplay the threat and accuse Democrats and the news media of hyping the risk to weaken him politically.
He wouldn't say if the president is considering suspending tariffs on China but said the White House is not considering any"precipitous action right now." Recounting how he had gotten a note from a reporter asking what he's going to do to calm the markets, he said he might tell people to turn off their televisions."It is real? It absolutely is real," Mulvaney said while adding that 20 million Americans get the flu each year."This is not Ebola, OK? … It's not SARS, it's not MERS," he said, referring to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, pointing to their high fatality rates.
"We took extraordinary steps four of five weeks ago. Why didn't you hear about it? What was going on four or five weeks ago? Impeachment!" Mulvaney said."And that's all the press wanted to talk about." "President Trump and his team have to stop blaming everyone but themselves, focus less on political rallies and more on solutions to combat the spread of coronavirus.”
On Fox News, host Sean Hannity opened his program Thursday night saying,"I can report the sky is absolutely falling. We're all doomed. The end is near. The apocalypse is imminent and you're going to die, all of you, in the next 48 hours and it's all President Trump's fault -- or at least that's what the media mob and the Democratic extreme radical Socialist Party would like you to think.
After introductions around the table, the president launched into a staunch defense of his administration's handling of coronavirus, while slamming the media and Democrats for bringing politics into the response."I know politics, and you know, politics is fine," Trump said."But when it comes time to talk about pandemics or whatever you may want to call it, you got to get away from politics.
Trump did not mention the stock market, which plunged for the fifth day in a row Friday, falling more than 800 points after the opening bell, but he said earlier in the week it"will recover."African-American supporters, including Terrence Williams, Angela Stanton and Diamond and Silk, pray with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 27, 2020.
While there are no confirmed cases in Florida so far, Pence scheduled a meeting in between the political events with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.House members on Friday morning assembled on Capitol Hill for a closed briefing on the novel coronavirus from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health , and other administration officials and federal health professionals.
If next week, 3/2/20 is anything like last week for market sell off the Mulvaney, Kidlow, Pence presentations will be a bomb. The administration has no one of stature to calm the nation.
IDIOTS.
Don’t believe Mulvaney he’s a Tool & liar & complicit with President’s lies about UKRAINE & Russia is invading & terrorizing & killing bc Trump let Putin win.
U are bad luck CHUMP
The Chinese government is 100% to blame for putting the world in this position...
Our President has done a great job.
Quotes Mulvaney, depicts Trump......🤔
The GOP response: 'Yes Master.'
I will only FLUSH 1 time!! Please choose me!!!!
'Get over it.'
Nice rally at the last 15 minutes of trading today. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell says U.S. economy STRONG.
Mulvaney know ZERO! The scientist and doctors in the CDC should be given the lead. Not the fools in this white house.
This Administration is in beyond denial... Truth doesn’t matter to them
We've already had schools closing down for 'flu-like' illnesses. Too bad they didn't test them for COVID19
I think numbers infected are going to fall off in China. We have had much worse. Be alert, dont panic and live life. This isn't killing us yet and by all indications it wont be. Did those who died have pre existing conditions? How old were they?
And if you believe that... 🙄
Good lord, this man is an idiot
I just want to know when POTUS will be shot out of a cannon, no excuses. He *is* the sitting President after all.
TheStormIsHere QAnon
So don't watch the news to find out if your school or transportation isn't running?
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, 'It's the incompetence, stupid!'
YEAH RIGHT...MICK....
He think Corona is like a bottle he often can handle lol
Trump is a mess!
Liberals gonna be very upset when this is over and the markets rebound. And they will.
No no no what’s this