In a speech made on May 14, 2020, Trump referred to testing for coronavirus as “overrated.”

So we have the best testing in the world. It could be the testing’s, frankly, overrated? Maybe it is overrated. But whatever they start yelling, we want more, we want more. You know, they always say we want more, we want more because they don’t want to give you credit.

On that day, the US had suffered a total of 87,500 deaths from COVID-19, more than all American deaths in wars from Vietnam to the modern day combined.

Trump later also said that if testing were halted, “we’d have very few cases, if any.” Trump spent the early months of the coronavirus pandemic dismissing concerns about the growing crisis.

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