Democracy Matters :verified:<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FiveYearsAgoToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FiveYearsAgoToday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AreYouBetterOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AreYouBetterOff</span></a></p><p>March 26, 2020 – Although health experts around the world have been warning about a pandemic for years, Trump claimed that the coronavirus crisis caught the U.S. by surprise. </p><p>“This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country,” he said. “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AgentKrasnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgentKrasnov</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArrestTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArrestTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPKakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>