On Friday, while appearing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trump did just that when he revealed he wanted to keep passengers on a cruise ship exposed to Covid-19, the new coronavirus, quarantined on the vessel — not for public safety reasons or to reduce the spread of the disease — but so that they wouldn’t count as American cases of the illness.
“I like the numbers being where they are,” Trump said. “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship! That wasn’t our fault. And it wasn’t the fault of the people on the ship either.” Continue reading.