COVID
2020 March
2020-03-24 During a press conference Trump falsely claimed that COVID would “disappear” by Easter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/05/donald-trump-covid-19-go-away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Nx69IOFwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXxuUJJz4VE
2020-03-27 Trump signed in a $2.2T stimulus bill called the CARES Act.
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/about-the-cares-act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act
2020-03-27 Apple released a dedicated COVID-19 app with screening tools, symptom checkers, and CDC guidelines.
2020 April
2020-04-23 During a press conference, Trump mused over the idea of injecting the body with disinfectant to treat COVID. When a reporter cautioned Trump not to perpetuate misinformation, Trump angrily backfired.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/23/trump-bleach-one-year-484399
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
2021
2021-05-20 A civil rights group sued Trump for referring to COVID as “Chinese Virus”, “China Virus”, “Wuhan Virus”, and “Kung Flu Virus”. Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted out in frustration “Wait a minute…After months of being told it was racist to refer to COVID as a ‘Chinese virus’ the WP refers to its new strains as ‘British and South African variants.’ So you can use the name of the nation where it comes from, so long as that nation is not China. Got it.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-53173436
2021-08-22 During a Fresno campaign stop, Larry Elder told the crowd he would repeal COVID-19 vaccines and mask mandates.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253718008.html
2021-09-17 During an interview on Jack Murphy Live, JD Vance claimed COVID masking is all about control and the worst thing about masking was kids not being able to see other children’s faces. He further asserted that children would see other children as “vectors of disease”.
2023
2023-04-24 News outlets reported that the Florida Surgeon General allegedly altered key findings of a COVID study.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510
2024 February
2024-02-27 Kash Patel posted an anti-vax promo for dietary supplements on Truth Social captioned “The only mRNA vaccine detoxification system” along with a purchase link.
https://truthsocial.com/@Kash/posts/112004498555307440Thanks
2024 May
2024-05-15 The North Carolina Senate voted to ban masks in public.
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14099 Moving Beyond COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Workers.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13987 Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13996 Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13997 Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19.
2025 March
2025-03-26 The Trump administration cut COVID research grants, particularly any documents that mentioned gender identity, DEI, or environmental justice.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40133456/
2025 August
2025-08-24 The FDA narrowed COVID requirements, making access to the vaccine more complicated.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/health/covid-vaccine-access-questions-healthy
2025 September
2025-09-04 During a senate committee hearing, RFK declared he did not have COVID statistics, did not know how many people died from COVID, nor how many were saved by vaccines.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/rfk-jr-says-he-doesn-t-know-covid-death-data-246709829694
2025-09-17 The West Coast Alliance, made up of California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii, announced their own COVID and RSV flu vaccine schedule in the wake of dangerous anti-vax campaigns.
2026 February
2026-02-16 Healthcare advocates call for RFK to resign after he downplayed the risks of COVID 19 by saying he used to quote, “snort cocaine off of toilet seats” during a podcast interview with Theo Vaugn. He stated, “I’m not scared of a germ. You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats”. Protect Our Care stated, “Robert F Kennedy Jr continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous, in over his head, ill-suited person ever to lead such an important federal agency that has life-and-death power”.
2026 March
2026-03-27 A new COVID variant Cicada – which was discovered originally in November 2024 in South Africa – had now hit 23 countries. According to some sources, this is the virus’ 75th mutation.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2026/03/27/new-covid-19-cicada-variant/