Donald Trump Says He Wasn’t Joking<br />About Slowing COVID-19 Testing President Donald Trump has confirmed that he was<br />serious about his suggestion that COVID-19 testing<br />needed to be slowed down in the United States. Trump initially made the remarks at his campaign rally<br />in Tulsa, Oklahoma, revealing that he’d asked his<br />administration to “slow the testing down.” Donald Trump,<br />via Politico His team has since scrambled to clean up his<br />rally statements, saying they were “made in jest”<br />and were only “tongue in cheek” remarks. However, in a statement to reporters on<br />Tuesday, Trump said he <br />[doesn’t] kid” and wanted<br />to “make it clear” that he stood by his logic. Donald Trump,<br />via Politico He continued his argument for “smaller testing"<br />on Twitter, saying increased testing was the only reason<br />for the country’s increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Donald Trump,<br />via Twitter
