money Trump says he wouldn't have urged Obama to resign if their roles were reversed during the COVID-19 disaster
President Donald Trump on Monday said he wouldn't have called for President Barack Obama's resignation had Obama been president while 160,000 Americans died of the coronavirus.
"No, I wouldn't have done that," Trump said. "I think it's been amazing what we've been able to do."
In 2014, a few weeks before the first travel-associated case of Ebola was found in the US, Trump suggested that Obama should resign.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he wouldn't have called for President Barack Obama's resignation had Obama been president while 160,000 Americans died of the coronavirus.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump suggested he wouldn't have blamed Obama if he were leading the country through one of the worst pandemics in modern history.
"No, I wouldn't have done that," Trump said. "I think it's been amazing what we've been able to do.
"If we didn't close up our country, we would've had 1 1/2 or 2 million people already dead," Trump added. "We've called it right. Now we don't have to close it. We understand the disease. Nobody understood it, because nobody's ever seen anything like this."
Trump's comment was a rare occasion in which he declined to blame his predecessor for something.
When Trump was still a reality-TV star and real-estate mogul as a private citizen, he repeatedly criticized Obama over an array of issues, including how Obama approached the 2014 Ebola outbreak. At the time, Trump described Obama as a "delusional failure" and said Obama was making the problem "much worse than it needs to be in the U.S."
Eleven people were treated for Ebola in the US from 2014 to 2016.
In a tweet in September 2014, a few weeks before the first travel-associated case of Ebola was found in the US, Trump suggested that Obama should resign.
"If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country—I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses!" Trump tweeted.
As of Monday, over 5 million people in the US had been infected with the coronavirus, and over 163,000 people had died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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