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Trump's Remarks Before Marine One Departure; October 27, 2020
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Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: October 27, 2020
South Lawn
12:53 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We’ll be making three big stops — three rally stops. I understand that they’ve been camped out for a couple of days already, and we have a lot of people — thousands and thousands.
{snip}
Q Mr. President, shouldn’t the voters judge you on COVID? And did you blow it?
THE PRESIDENT: Voters are judging me on a lot of things, and one of the things we’ve done a really good job on is COVID. We would have millions of people — millions, right now — we would have millions of people —
Q That’s if you did nothing.
THE PRESIDENT: — dead. Two million people. They were projecting 2.2 [million] if we didn’t do what we did. We did the ventilators and now we’re doing all of the equipment. But now we’re doing vaccines, we’re doing —
Q But isn’t that if you did nothing?
THE PRESIDENT: — therapeutics, and we’ve done a great job. And people are starting to see.
Now Biden had the swine flu. He did the worst job that anybody has ever seen. Had no idea what he was doing. And his Chief of Staff said he had no idea what he was doing.
I’ll see you in Michigan. We’re going to have some fun. Thank you.
END
12:57 P.M. EDT
Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
Issued on: October 27, 2020
South Lawn
12:53 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We’ll be making three big stops — three rally stops. I understand that they’ve been camped out for a couple of days already, and we have a lot of people — thousands and thousands.
{snip}
Q Mr. President, shouldn’t the voters judge you on COVID? And did you blow it?
THE PRESIDENT: Voters are judging me on a lot of things, and one of the things we’ve done a really good job on is COVID. We would have millions of people — millions, right now — we would have millions of people —
Q That’s if you did nothing.
THE PRESIDENT: — dead. Two million people. They were projecting 2.2 [million] if we didn’t do what we did. We did the ventilators and now we’re doing all of the equipment. But now we’re doing vaccines, we’re doing —
Q But isn’t that if you did nothing?
THE PRESIDENT: — therapeutics, and we’ve done a great job. And people are starting to see.
Now Biden had the swine flu. He did the worst job that anybody has ever seen. Had no idea what he was doing. And his Chief of Staff said he had no idea what he was doing.
I’ll see you in Michigan. We’re going to have some fun. Thank you.
END
12:57 P.M. EDT
