January 22 was Trump’s first public comment on coronavirus, when, asked if there were concerns about a pandemic (concerns that have been fully realized), he answered, “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

He didn’t stop there.

January 24: “It will all work out well.”

January 28: Trump retweeted One America News claiming Johnson & Johnson was creating a vaccine.

January 30: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment—five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”

January 31, Trump limited air travel by foreigners who had recently traveled to China. He’s endlessly bragged about that move, but he didn’t accompany it with any other serious measures to contain COVID-19 in the U.S.

February 2: “Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China,” Trump claims in an interview with Sean Hannity.

February 10, with the U.S. drastically behind on testing: “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”