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In 2014, Trump Said the President Should Visit and Embrace Ebola Patients

Is he going to take his own advice with the coronavirus, which does not "disintegrate" you?
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Back in 2014, Trump Obama should "visit & embrace" every person in the US with Ebola. Will he follow his own advice with the coronavirus?
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Over the past week, U.S. President Donald Trump has scrambled to figure out a coherent response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak — alternately downplaying the risk and making questionable scientific claims.

Back in 2014, though, Trump had very strong feelings about how the President — at the time, Barack Obama — should deal with the then-spreading Ebola epidemic.

Specifically, this:

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

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Jon Christian

Executive Editor

I’m the executive editor at Futurism, assigning, editing, and reporting on everything from artificial intelligence and space exploration to the personalities shaping the tech sector.