Trump Warns of ‘Very, Very Painful’ Next Two Weeks
Just days after predicting a quick bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and claiming the “light at the end of the tunnel” was already in sight, President Donald Trump on Tuesday changed course and warned of a “very, very painful” next few weeks.
“I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead,” Trump said at a briefing where the White House unveiled potential death toll numbers from the pandemic. “We’re going to go through a very tough two weeks. And then hopefully, as the experts are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard, you’re going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel. But this is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks.”
The president’s comments came during a briefing where health officials laid out the predictive models used to determine how many fatalities the country could face depending on the measures taken to contain the virus. Trump said it was “sobering” to see the projection of 100,000 people succumbing to the virus, “and that’s a minimum.”