What Trump said about Covid-19 in private versus what he said in public

Trump’s public remarks about the coronavirus were very different from what he told a journalist one-on-one.

President Donald Trump seemed to have very different things to say about Covid-19 when he spoke in public — at press conferences and TV appearances — than when he spoke to journalist Bob Woodward one-on-one.

In public comments, Trump took a tone that downplayed the coronavirus — making it seem like the virus would go away quickly, and emphasizing the need to reopen the country to try to get the economy going again.

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