FACT CHECK: This week marked a turning point for the president, who seems to have finally come to grips with the scale and scope of the global pandemic surrounding novel coronavirus.
The president also claimed on Thursday that Americans returning from Europe are being tested at the airport.
Passengers, including Aleksandra, left, from Poland and Sophia, center, from Germany, who said they will be working as au pairs in New York and booked their flights yesterday following Trump's announcement, wait to board the last direct United Airlines flight from Berlin to New York at Tegel Airport, in Berlin, March 13, 2020. The Trump administration is temporarily banning all non-U.S.
Describing it as a"foreign" virus the president broadly blamed the European Union for taking the same precautions he did and restrict travel from China and other hot spots."As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe," Trump said. He mentioned that the United Kindgom was exempt, but didn't mention a whole host of European countries also exempt, including: Ireland, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus.
President Donald Trump holds a news conference about the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic in the Rose garden at the White House, March 13, 2020 in Washington. Trump declared a national emergency."Europe was just designated as the hotspot right now," he said."And we closed that border a while ago."No contact, no test
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