//Book: President Trump said of coronavirus, 'I wanted to always play it down'

Book: President Trump said of coronavirus, 'I wanted to always play it down'

President Donald Trump seemed to understand the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call