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Donald Trump is the president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016. He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In February 2017, he officially announced he is running for the 2020 Republican nomination for president.

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Donald Trump
stated on March 30, 2020 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":

“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.

By Jon Greenberg • March 31, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2020 in a press conference:

“I didn’t say that” some of the medical equipment that governors are requesting, they don't actually need.

By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:

Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in Fox News town hall:

"We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks."

By Shefali Luthra • March 25, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a Fox News town hall:

Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020

Viral image
stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Donald Trump tweeted, “I ordered the Treasury secretary to send checks to Americans! First however, we will go through your social media history from the last 4 years and search for any post with #NotMyPresident in it. I wouldn’t think of offending you with a check if I’m not your president! #MAGA”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 19, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 11, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“MSNBC actually said on air ‘I hope enough people die from coronavirus that it harms Trump’s re-election.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 18, 2020
Instagram posts
stated on March 15, 2020 in a screenshot:

Says Donald Trump “cut funding to the CDC,” “fired the Pandemic Response Team,” “refused WHO tests” and “wasted two weeks calling this outbreak a ‘Democrat hoax.’”

By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2020
Chain message
stated on March 16, 2020 in a text:

Donald Trump is “announcing tomorrow that the US is going into quarantine for the next 14 days.”

By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in a Democratic primary debate:

The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 16, 2020

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