Ledger · First term · № 132
'One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear'
Never delivered“It's going to disappear. One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear.”
- Promised
- , White House meeting with African American leaders
- Stated deadline
- “One day / around the corner” → March 12, 2020
- Overdue by
- 6 years, 6 months as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 22 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- COVID-19
- Era
- First term
What happened
Rolling Stone counted at least 22 separate occasions on which Trump predicted the virus would simply go away, including earlier claims that heat would kill it 'in April.' The US passed 100,000 deaths by late May 2020 and roughly 400,000 by the time he left office in January 2021.