Michael Moore says Trump 'more dangerous' than coronavirus for claiming it's a 'hoax' perpetrated by Democrats
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, on Friday, suggested that President Donald Trump was more dangerous than the new deadly coronavirus because he was creating a "false ignorance" by spreading misinformation. Moore made the statement while talking to MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.
"If you have the president telling people it's a hoax -- that there's nothing to worry about, that it will disappear as he said yesterday, and it'll be a miracle ... which is more dangerous? The virus or a president who says that," the filmmaker said. "Because at least if we were honest and knew everything about the virus, and the facts were all out there, science could start to deal with it."
Moore stressed that America needs to begin the process of combating the new coronavirus, known as Covid-19, considering there is no current effort to formulate a vaccine shot. "Whatever innoculation, whatever we need to come up with, whatever we need to invent, we can start that process. But the fact that we have only a few hundred test kits in this place or that place -- that there's no effort at all ongoing right now to deal with the shot or whatever we need to get if we need to get it," he said.
"To pretend that it doesn't exist and to tell people out in Tuscaloosa or Detroit that there's nothing to worry about -- and if he's wrong and if the World Health Organization is saying it's now at the highest risk level, what do you call that man who tells his people that there's nothing to worry about and not only that -- but that it's made up by the Democrats and the media," he continued.
The 'Bowling for Columbine' filmmaker argued that Trump's statement was "the most dangerous thing I've ever heard a president say in my lifetime."
The president received widespread criticism for claiming that the virus, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives across the world, is a "hoax." Trump, during a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina on Friday, had slammed Democrats for politicizing the coronavirus.
“The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump said during the rally. “They’re politicizing it. One of my people came up to me and said: ‘Mr President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That did not work out too well. They could not do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. This is their new hoax."
However, Trump later clarified that his use of the word referred to “the action [Democrats] tried to take to try to pin this on somebody because we’ve done such a good job”, he said. “The hoax is on them. I’m not talking about what’s happening here,” Trump added, also saying “I don’t like it when they are criticising [federal health officials], and that’s the hoax.”