"The risk to any average American is low from the novel coronavirus. The risk remains low thanks to the unprecedented actions President Trump has taken."
-- HHS Secretary Alex Azar, while Trump stood behind him

"People are disgusted and embarrassed by the Fake News Media, as headed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Comcast and MSDNC, ABC, and CBS News and more. They no longer believe what they see and read..."
-- Trump

"For them to try to take a pandemic, and seemingly hope that it comes here and kills millions of people so that they can end Donald Trump's streak of winning, is a new level of sickness."
-- Donald Trump Jr. on Democrats

"It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear."
-- Trump on coronavirus

"He could personally suck the virus out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world, suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the ocean and spit it out, and he would be accused of pollution for messing up the ocean."
-- Mike Huckabee on Trump

"COVID-19 is a serious public health issue."
-- Dr. Daniel B. Jernigan, CDC

"The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA... The vaccine is coming along well."
-- Trump

"For weeks the media told you it was wrong to worry about the coronavirus, a mysterious, highly communicable lethal disease spreading rapidly around the world. 'If that concerns you in any way, if you think maybe we ought to take some steps to protect ourselves from it, then you're a bigot.'...Identity politics trumped public health and not for the first time. 'Wokeness' is a cult. They would let you die before they admitted that diversity is not our strength."
-- Fox host Tucker Carlson

"In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government's entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure."
-- science journalist Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy 

"The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."
-- Rush Limbaugh

"My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections. And as president I will make sure that you do... Unlike Donald Trump, I do not consider Vladimir Putin a good friend. He is an autocratic thug who is attempting to destroy democracy and crush dissent in Russia."
-- Bernie Sanders on intelligence briefing that Russia is interfering in 2020 election

"Another misinformation campaign."
-- Trump on same briefing

"Traitor...After I leave office, he can do this."
-- Trump on John Bolton and publication of his book The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir