"You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus. You can call it many different names. I'm not sure anyone even knows what it is."
-- Trump on COVID-19, a coronavirus

"Be nice. Don't be threatening."
-- Trump to PBS Newshour's Yamiche Alcindor

"How do you go from 10-to-20-to-300,000...Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door?...I want the people in New York to check...because there's something going on."
-- Trump

"Because the 'ratings' of my news conferences etc. are so high, 'Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football-type numbers' according to the New York Times, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY. 'Trump is reaching too many people, we must stop him,' said one lunatic. See you at 5:00 p.m.!"
-- Trump tweet

"The deep state extends very deeply...We didn't elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don't know. And how do we know they're even health experts?"
-- Rush Limbaugh

"[Mike Pence] calls all the governors. I tell him -- I mean, I'm a different type of person -- I say, 'Mike, don't call the governor of Wisconsin, you're wasting your time with him. Don't call the woman in Michigan.' If they don't treat you right, I don't call...I want them to be appreciative."
-- Trump

"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they'll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they're saying we order 30,000 ventilators?"
-- Trump

"It's hard not to be happy with the job we are doing."
-- Trump

"When people are dishonest, they truly do hurt our country."
-- Trump

"You have almost 160,000,000 jobs in this country now... So we can't turn that off and think it's going to be wonderful. There will be tremendous death from that. Death. You're talking about death. Probably more death from that than anything that we're talking about with respect to the virus."
-- Trump