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Then-President Donald Trump cut the conversation short when his health secretary, Alex Azar, warned him of the coronavirus in January 2020, according to a new book, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,"
"Mr. President, I've got to tell you something," Azar told Trump during a mid-January 2020 phone call, before COVID-19 broke out across the country and forced officials to impose lockdowns. "There's this new virus out of China that could be extremely dangerous. It could be the kind of thing we have been preparing for and worried about."
"Yeah, okay," Trump replied, seemingly unconvinced of the threat. Then he hung up the phone.
The Post journalists reported that Azar "could barely get a word in before Trump started shouting" at him over e-cigarettes during that January phone call.
Azar, then the head of the Health and Human Services Department, failed to get through to the president. He had been on shaky ground with Trump, who was still upset over a recent health policy that banned most flavored electronic cigarettes. The move had angered Trump's base, and the president thought it would cost him his reelection
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...020-a-new-book-says/ar-AALCXKS?ocid=Peregrine.
"Mr. President, I've got to tell you something," Azar told Trump during a mid-January 2020 phone call, before COVID-19 broke out across the country and forced officials to impose lockdowns. "There's this new virus out of China that could be extremely dangerous. It could be the kind of thing we have been preparing for and worried about."
"Yeah, okay," Trump replied, seemingly unconvinced of the threat. Then he hung up the phone.
The Post journalists reported that Azar "could barely get a word in before Trump started shouting" at him over e-cigarettes during that January phone call.
Azar, then the head of the Health and Human Services Department, failed to get through to the president. He had been on shaky ground with Trump, who was still upset over a recent health policy that banned most flavored electronic cigarettes. The move had angered Trump's base, and the president thought it would cost him his reelection
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...020-a-new-book-says/ar-AALCXKS?ocid=Peregrine.