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trump | I have to say that, very excitingly, we're going to have somebody up; Bill will be up in just a little while. It was a great report you gave. And he's going to be talking about how the virus reacts in sunlight. Wait until you hear the numbers. You won't even believe them. | speech |
trump | And with 4.4 million more Americans filing for unemployment in the past week, I joined the President in welcoming passage in the House today of the Paycheck Protection Program. It'll support working families. It'll allow small businesses to keep people on the payroll for a period of two months. But it also, as the President requested, included $75 billion to assist hospitals across the country. | speech |
trump | Good afternoon everybody. My name is Bill Bryan and I lead the Science and Technology Directorate at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. Over the last several months, we've intensified the Department's R&D efforts to identify and deliver information that informs our response to COVID-19. S&T is working to identify, develop, deploy, and deploy the tools and information to support our response to this crisis. | speech |
trump | Our task force actually believes, Mr. President, that if we continue these mitigation efforts in the days ahead--as states implement their policies, including phased reopening--that we'll preserve those gains. We do believe, by early summer, we could be in a much better place as a nation with much of this coronavirus epidemic behind us. | speech |
trump | So, in summary, within the conditions we've tested to date, the virus in droplets of saliva survives best in indoors and dry conditions. The virus does not survive as well in droplets of saliva. And that's important because a lot of testing being done is not necessarily being done, number one, with the COVID-19 virus, and number two, in saliva or respiratory fluids. | speech |
trump | And then you'll look at certain lists of other countries. Some are so obvious just to look at, where obviously the number is ridiculous, in the form of low, because they're not accurate counts. They're not even close to accurate counts. In fact, they're insulting to look at them. | speech |
trump | We have--I'll be introducing the team when we're finished with this whole nightmare, this whole curse, this whole plague. But the team that worked on the ventilators was incredible. And the team that work--and it's a little bit interchangeable, but the team that's working on the testing is truly an incredible team. These are brilliant people. And they're doing it for the country; they're not doing it for other reasons. | speech |
trump | Thank you very much. So I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous--whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light--and I think you said that that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that too. It sounds interesting. | speech |
trump | So we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that's--that's pretty powerful. | speech |
trump | Sure, Mike. Go ahead. Go ahead. | speech |
trump | Some have been very successful. They're doing it for the country. | speech |
trump | I--I think for the most part--I'll be able to tell you when it's all over, but a lot of the governors have done a really terrific job. Some I don't think have, to be honest. But we'll be talking about that in future. | speech |
trump | As of today, FEMA reports that 35,000 National Guard have been deployed across the country to aid in our coronavirus response. Governor Kevin Stitt of Ohio actually deployed the National Guard to hospitals across the state to evaluate protective equipment and hospital capacity and report it in to state emergency management and FEMA. | speech |
trump | We're also testing disinfectants readily available. We've tested bleach, we've tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus, specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids. And I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes; isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that's with no manipulation, no rubbing--just spraying it on and letting it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster. We're also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva. | speech |
trump | Today, I also want to extend my special thanks to our nation's incredible county emergency management teams who have been working relentlessly for weeks around the clock, end on end, to serve their communities, help distribute critical supplies, and save countless American lives. We salute these heroic officials on the frontlines. | speech |
trump | I haven't at all. I haven't at all. What are you say--we'll see what happens. | speech |
trump | I have to say, the FDA has been fantastic. Stephen Hahn--Dr. Hahn--has been fantastic. They're moving along rapidly. Rapidly. | speech |
trump | Our country is going to do fantastically well. You see what's going on. There is a pent-up demand in our country to get it back right where it was and maybe even better, and that's what's going to happen. | speech |
trump | All of that combined, we're--we're slowing the spread. We're protecting the most vulnerable. We're saving lives. And every single day, we are one day closer to opening up America again. | speech |
trump | A safe and phased reopening of our economy--it's very exciting, but it does not mean that we are letting down our guard at all, in any way. On the contrary, continued diligence is an essential part of our strategy to get our country back to work, to take our country back. We're winning this, and we're going to win it, and we're going to keep watching. We're going to watch very closely for the invisible enemy. | speech |
trump | No, he didn't. No, he didn't defy me at all. That's your language. He didn't defy me. | speech |
trump | Along with the National Guard, at the President's direction today, more than 4,500 active duty military doctors, nurses, and medical assistants have been deployed across the country. Yesterday, 1,013 medical professionals in our military were actually deployed to 19 hospitals in 7 states to support those amazing healthcare workers. | speech |
trump | This is not the end of our work as we continue to characterize this virus and integrate our findings into practical applications to mitigate exposure and transmission. I would like to thank the President and thank the Vice President for their ongoing support and leadership to the department and for their work in addressing this pandemic. I would also like to thank the scientists, not only in S&T and the NBACC, but to the larger scientific and R&D community. | speech |
trump | So if you look at an 18-hour half-life, what you're basically saying is that every 18 hours, the virus--it's the life of the virus is cut in half. So if you start with 1,000 particles of the virus, in 18 hours, you're down to 500. And 18 hours after that, you're down to 250, and so on and so forth. That's important, as I explain in the rest of the chart. | speech |
trump | This way, the governor should know exactly what's being delivered through a private-sector supply chain within their states, as well as through the Project Airbridge. We're trying to get it immediately from the plane to the state. When we can't do that, we bring it into our facilities and get it to the governors. And we're getting them fast, and we're notifying them very strongly so they know it's there. Governors can use this information to quickly ensure that they get materials where and when they are needed. | speech |
trump | I think he's doing great. I think he's doing great. He was so sharp and energetic. Pretty incredible. He's an incredible guy. | speech |
trump | I have not. I haven't seen it. I have not seen it. | speech |
trump | With that, Mr. President, I'll step aside. But it's remarkable to think of all that we've accomplished over the last month since you first issued the Presidential Guidelines for America. | speech |
trump | At the same time, we know that mortality and the fatalities that we're facing across the United States continue. We know the number of people who are still in the hospitals in the ICUs, and we want to continue to recognize the healthcare workers who are on the frontlines, and really recognize how low the United States case fatality rates are, compared to other countries. And this is really due not only to our technology, but how that technology is utilized to save lives. | speech |
trump | It's been a horrible time to see such death and destruction, especially when you come out of what was the greatest economy in the history of the world. The greatest. There's never been an economy like what we had produced, but we'll produce it again. And I think we'll produce it again very fast. | speech |
trump | It's incredible what's going on. I'm very proud of the people of this country. I'm very proud of the people I spoke to today. These are truly great, brilliant people, and we've gained tremendous insight. | speech |
trump | Well, we'll know soon. Look, they know. I--they've been warned and they're being warned right now. If they don't approve it, then we're going to go this route. And we'll probably be challenged in court, and we'll see who wins. | speech |
trump | They include antivirals, and also--and they--something which is incredible: It keeps the virus from multiplying. A mechanism that keeps the virus from multiplying. Immune therapies that prevent the immune system from overreaching to the virus. And convalescent plasma treatments that use antibodies from the blood of recovered patients. | speech |
trump | In that vein, there's been a lot happening this week, as COVID-19 is impacting food-processing facilities, as you know. For Americans who be--may be worried about access to good food because of this, I want to assure you: The American food supply is strong, resilient, and safe. And in fact, our food supply chain has shown tremendous agility in shifting production and logistics so suddenly from restaurant and institutional settings to retail settings. | speech |
trump | We have the best tests of any country in the world. Nobody have--has the quality of tests, the--if you look at Abbott, what they've come up with in a short period of time. They've been incredible. Roche has been incredible. We have the best tests in the world. | speech |
trump | Well, I think the companies will determine that, and the governors will determine that, and the federal government will de--and if we're not happy, we'll take very strong action against a state or a governor. If we're not happy with the job a governor is doing, we'll let them know about it. And, as you know, we have very strong action we can take, including a closedown, but we don't want to do that. | speech |
trump | Earlier last month, you were in the Oval Office, talking about, "Now is not the time for partisanship." How will that act lower the partisanship in this town? And could it potentially hinder your ability to get something done on coronavirus? And then -- | speech |
trump | America is depending on what you have--the food we need to feed our families--and you're the ones who are making that happen. Thank you. | speech |
trump | We've gotten judges because we go through the process. I guess we're up to 448 federal judges. And that, we've gotten because we focus on it; we take the maximum time. Because no matter who the judge is, they take vast numbers of days and hours to approve, and it leaves no time left for others. Very unfair system. | speech |
trump | But rather than approving somebody who's highly qualified--somebody that everybody knows is going to be approved--rather than going quickly, they take the maximum amount of time, whatever that time may be. And what they're doing by doing that is taking days to approve somebody that could be approved in a quick vote. People that get phenomenal reviews in committee are going maximum number of hours. And what they do is--there's only so many hours in a day. | speech |
trump | The American people will be encouraged to know that, as we stand here today, 24 percent of the counties of this country have no reported coronavirus cases. In fact, half of the states in America have less than 2,500 cases per state. This is a great tribute to the efforts by the people of those communities. | speech |
trump | If you look at--if you look at timelines--you've got to look at some timelines. But the World--the World Health Organization, just like the World Trade Organization--I'm telling you--I call them--they have been treating the United States, for decades, so badly. And they've been so in favor of China. | speech |
trump | But as the President suggested, when we unveil the guidelines that the team has been working to present tomorrow to our nation's governors, we're going to reflect on the fact that, as the President said, there will be areas of the country that will require continued mitigation and strong efforts. And there will be other areas of the country that will be--be given guidance for greater flexibility, and the President has so directed our team. | speech |
trump | As we know, any employee who develops symptoms while on the job should go home immediately. And the interim guidance is in line with CDC recommendations for healthcare workers, caring for those sick with COVID-19. | speech |
trump | Yeah, please. In the back. | speech |
trump | At the same time, I'm inspired by the American people who continue social distancing. These cases continue to decline because of the strong work of the American people. | speech |
trump | Well, it is--it's--look, it's been a very partisan government for a long period of time, not just this administration. You can go back into the last two administrations; you've seen a lot of partisanship. And even now, you would think that we wouldn't have. | speech |
trump | To employees and local public health officials advising them: The CDC has issued guidelines on how to mitigate a situation if you have a positive case in one of your facilities. We need our local health authorities and our state health authorities to do everything they can to balance the demand of keeping our facilities operational and our critical industries going, while at the same time keeping the health and safety of employees as a top priority, as well as our communities. | speech |
trump | We're going to have a lot. You see it with General Motors. You see it with other companies that are producing. We're going to have hundreds of thousands of ventilators. And it's a great thing to have. | speech |
trump | Again, every single judge, every nominee we have goes through maximum, or at least they go through a long process. So it takes days and days, and there's no time left. And it's just a concerted effort to make life difficult. | speech |
trump | But we'll have them for stockpiles, and very importantly, we're going to have them for other countries because nobody is able to do things like we can do. And we're going to be able to help other countries that are having tremendous problems, to put it mildly. | speech |
trump | If a judge is going to be approved in one hour, in one session, it doesn't matter--they'll take the maximum number of hours and days--you're talking about days--to get one judge approved. And we're close to 250 judges, but because of the way they're doing it, there's no time for anybody else. And many of these people have been waiting for two and a half years. We have a couple that have been waiting for longer than that. | speech |
trump | We're working with the governors and we're working closely with the governors. The relationship has been very good. The Vice President has had a lot of conversations over the last two weeks with either 50 or almost 50 governors on every conversation. And they've been really positive conversations. | speech |
trump | Yes, in the back. Please. Is anybody freezing? You know, it's very cold out here. So we can leave early, right? | speech |
trump | When we think of more than 619,000 Americans having tested positive, more than 45,000 having recovered, we wanted to announce today that the FDA recently announced efforts to facilitate the development and access to convalescent plasma, Mr. President. You've spoken about this. People who have recovered from the coronavirus have antibodies in your bloodstream that can attack the virus. | speech |
trump | The positions include the Director of National Intelligence, two members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Financial Markets of the United States, and the Undersecretary of Agriculture responsible for administering food security programs. And Sonny Perdue, who's going to be speaking today, is saying, "Please, can I have this man, can I have this particular person approved as soon as possible?" He's been telling me that for a long time, and the Democrats won't allow it to happen. | speech |
trump | I also wanted to let you know that we do have nine states that have less than 1,000 cases and less than 30 new cases per day. So we're looking at states and metro areas as individual--individual areas. | speech |
trump | I would say that we have 20 states, at least, but you really have 29 that are in extremely good shape. You have others that are getting much better. And I think, with almost a few exceptions, you have every state that is either doing better or on the way to doing better. | speech |
trump | Well, I don't want to say that, John. But I will tell you, more and more, we're hearing the story. And we'll see. When you say "multiple sources"--now there's a case where you can use the word "sources"--but we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation that happened. | speech |
trump | So we appreciate the dedication and commitment of all the brave men and working--women working to keep their communities fed. And we will continue to work with the CDC to keep those individuals as safe as possible during these challenging times. | speech |
trump | Thank you very much. And before the Vice President comes up, I just wanted to say, speaking of Sonny, China has paid us billions of dollars--many, many billions of dollars--in tariffs, which we've distributed--some to the farmers, because they were targeted. We have many billions of dollars being held by Sonny. And I've told him to distribute much of that money to the farmers. | speech |
trump | So thank you very much, Sonny. Great job. | speech |
trump | But every block--every week, they put up roadblocks, whether it's "Russia, Russia, Russia," or whether it's impeachment hoax, or whatever it may be. It's always roadblocks and a waste of time. | speech |
trump | But we're spending billions of dollars to help people live and--all over the world. But we're spending $500 million to the World Health Organization, and there's something very bad going on. And you know what? I've gotten very much involved. It's been going on for a long period of time, and we don't want to be the suckers anymore. | speech |
trump | New cases are declining throughout the New York metropolitan area. Cases in the Detroit and Denver metro areas are flat. Washington, D. C.; Baltimore; Philadelphia; and St. Louis are showing great signs of progress, and new cases in Houston and New Orleans are declining. | speech |
trump | But does anybody really believe the numbers of some of these countries that you've been watching and you've been reporting on? And then, it's like they didn't have the big thing. They have been some really, really bad--heavily--and really, some countries that are in big, big trouble. And they're not reporting the facts. And that's up to them. | speech |
trump | And what we're doing is--and I think anybody here would do it--judges are a priority. A federal judge is going to sit for 50 years, potentially--a young judge. Going to be sitting for--that's always going to have to be a priority. | speech |
trump | These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines for states on reopening the country, which we'll be announcing. We're going to be talking about that tomorrow. We'll be having a news conference tomorrow sometime during the afternoon. We're going to be announcing guidelines, and we'll be talking about various states. And it's very exciting. | speech |
trump | Following our use of the Defense Production Act, GM announced that its first ventilators come off the assembly line in Kokomo, Indiana--a great place. They did it in 11 days, from start to finish, a remarkable testament to the ingenuity of the American worker. GM will ship over 600 ventilators this month alone, with thousands more to come. And we have other companies doing something similar. | speech |
trump | Please. Mike, please. | speech |
trump | Based on that, it looks like we're headed absolutely in the right direction. But some states are looking at other states, and they're saying, "I can't imagine what they're going through"--because they're not in that position. They're in very good shape. | speech |
trump | And, as the President reflected a few days ago, because we did not have the--happily, did not have the demand on the Javits Center and on the Comfort in New York City, at the President's direction, we have deployed doctors and nurses from those two facilities to hospitals. In fact, the President and I were just speaking to Mayor de Blasio just before we came out, and he expressed his great admiration and appreciation for the relief that these medical military personnel have provided to incredibly dedicated people in our hospitals. Two hundred and fifty-eight medical personnel just yesterday were deployed off the ship and out of the Javits Center into New York. | speech |
trump | We talked before how each of these curves are different. Each of the case's experiences are different. We have some states--like California and Washington State, Oregon--that never really had a peak because of so much work that their populations did to decrease and keep the new cases down. So each of these individual states and individual metros are being studied very specifically. | speech |
trump | Okay, a couple more. Go ahead. Please. | speech |
trump | These experts and innovators provided extremely productive feedback on how to safely reboot our economy. They gave us a lot of great ideas. We spoke to a lot of very, very smart people--the highest of the high-tech. The level of IQ:on some of those calls was about the highest you've ever seen on a phone call, that I can tell you. | speech |
trump | Phase one was $350 billion dollars. And now phase two, we want to do $250 billion. This goes to workers and it goes to small businesses so we can save all the small businesses around our nation. | speech |
trump | Sadly, we mourn the loss of more than 27,000 of our--our countrymen. Our hearts are with their families and with the families of all of those that continue to struggle with the serious consequences of this illness. But as Dr. Birx just reflected, despite the heartbreaking losses, we're getting there, America. | speech |
trump | The medical and healthcare advances we've made are critical to our continued progress. We've rapidly developed the most expansive and accurate testing system anywhere in the world and have completed more than 3.3 million tests. To date, we have authorized 48 separate coronavirus tests, and the FDA is working with 300 companies and labs to widen our capacity still further. | speech |
trump | An example is Michael Pack. He's my nominee for the CEO of the Broadcasking --Broadcasting Board of Governors. And he's been stuck in committee for two years, preventing us from managing the Voice of America. Very important. | speech |
trump | And in the end, we do have states that have very few cases and very few new cases. And so, these are the ones the President is referring to that have been silent--relatively silent--throughout this epidemic and pandemic that many of us have faced. And so, these are the groups we are working with very specifically. And each of these governors and each of these mayors will have to make decisions, after generalized guidelines are put out, so that they can do what's best for their communities. They are at the frontline. | speech |
trump | On the subject of supplies--Mr. President, I'll be very brief because you detailed a great amount. As the President mentioned, the air bridge has completed 44 flights. Fifty-six more are scheduled. | speech |
trump | Yeah. Go ahead, Jon. | speech |
trump | I know you got a little bit nervous when you saw there was a clip about ready to be played, but that was sent to us by General Motors, and we thought it would be a good one to play. It's amazing. It's--you know, what they've done in a very, very short period of time. | speech |
trump | And we will be working very much with the governors of the states. We want them to do it. We're not going to be running a parking lot in Arkansas. We're not going to be running a parking lot, where you have a Walmart--which has been great, by the way; Walmart has done a fantastic job--but where you have a testing center and running that from Washington, D. C. The states are much better equipped to do it. | speech |
trump | The Senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees or it should formally adjourn so that I can make recess appointments. We have a tremendous number of people that have to come into government--and now more so than ever before, because of the virus and the problem. We have to do it, and we have to do whatever we have to do. They've made it very, very difficult to run government. I don't think any administration has done anywhere near what we've done in three and a half years. | speech |
trump | And all this--through all this, our food supply chain has proven to be very resilient, just like American people. To the extent we have challenges, we have and continue to--to work through it all together. And we can and we will get through this with a whole-of-America approach, Mr. President--the critical partnership between state and local health officials, management of companies, and the employees. And we will meet any challenges we face by working together. | speech |
trump | Thank you very much. Thank you, Doctor. | speech |
trump | The senators left Washington until at least May 4th. The Constitution provides a mechanism for the President to fill positions in such circumstances--the "recess appointment," it's called--the Senate's practice of dabbling into so-called pro forma sessions where no one is even there. It has prevented me from using the constitutional authority that we're giving--that we're given under the recess provisions. | speech |
trump | I take these actions today with firm resolve and with a true and passionate love for our country. By far, our greatest days lie ahead. | speech |
trump | First, we are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. We will end it now. Today, I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. Mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. | speech |
trump | One law and order and that is what it is: one law. We have one beautiful law. And once that is restored and fully restored, we will help you, we will help your business, and we will help your family. | speech |
trump | Thank you very much. And now I'm going to pay my respects to a very, very special place. Thank you very much. | speech |
trump | We are putting everybody on warning: Our seven o'clock curfew will be strictly enforced. Those who threaten innocent life and property will be arrested, detained, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. | speech |
trump | These are not acts of peaceful protest. These are acts of domestic terror. The destruction of innocent life and the spilling of innocent blood is an offense to humanity and a crime against God. | speech |
trump | I want the organizers of this terror to be on notice that you will face severe criminal penalties and lengthy sentences in jail. This includes Antifa and others who are leading instigators of this violence. | speech |
trump | I am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our great capital, Washington, D. C. What happened in this city last night was a total disgrace. As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property. | speech |
trump | Fourth, just today, a major U. S. company, Sempra Energy, signed an agreement to begin negotiations for the sale of more American natural gas to South Korea. And, as you know, the leaders of South Korea are coming to the White House today, and we've got a lot of discussion to do. But we will also be talking about them buying energy from the United States of America, and I'm sure they'll like to do it. They need it. Thank you. | speech |
trump | And we're going to be an exporter--exporter. We will be dominant. We will export American energy all over the world, all around the globe. These energy exports will create countless jobs for our people, and provide true energy security to our friends, partners, and allies all across the globe. | speech |
trump | The second is the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which blocks federal grants to cities that release dangerous criminal aliens back into the streets, including the vicious and disgusting and horrible MS-13 gang members. And we're getting them out. We are getting them out. They're going--fast. | speech |
trump | Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. How are you? | speech |