In his own words: the president

Michael Reagan, who but you could proffer Trump’s inattention, indecisiveness and inaction as a carefully crafted strategy to avoid panicking the citizenry? (“The other virus? Trump-haters,” Times-Standard, March 14, Page A4.) Behold this specific timeline of the quotes from the Commander in Chief of Only Good Things:

Jan. 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

Feb. 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

Feb. 25: “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away … They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”

Feb. 26: “The 15 (cases in the U.S.) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

Feb. 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

Feb. 28: “We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”

March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”

March 4: “So, if we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”

March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”

March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful … . the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”

March 9: “We have a very strong economy but this came — but this blindsided the world, and I think we’ve handled it very, very well.”

March 13: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”