Trump was asked about his February 26 prediction that the number of coronavirus cases would soon 'be down to close to zero.' “Well, it will go down to zero, ultimately,” he replied.
Photo: Al Drago/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/Al Drago/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shuttersto On February 26, President Trump boasted that the coronavirus was about to disappear altogether from the United States. “You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” he insisted.
A reporter asked him today how that prediction is holding up, given that the United States now has surpassed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. Trump insisted he had been right all along.The original promise of cases going down to zero has basically been fulfilled, just that the timeline for going down to zero has been slightly extended from a couple days to “sometime before all life on Earth ceases to exist.
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