WBAP/KLIF (DALLAS) – President Donald Trump was a guest on WBAP’s Rick Roberts Show Thursday and defended the temporary United States economic shutdown.
President Trump said if the United States had not shutdown, the death toll could have been in the millions.
The highest, he says, could have been one to two million.
“Let’s say it was a million people. So, we’re going to lose 65,000 people, which is horrendous, but way way below even the low number estimate because we shut down and we did a very good job,” Trump told WBAP’s Roberts.
President Trump explained that he had a difficult time coming around to making the decision to shut down.
“I was not easy to talk into, you know when they say close it down, and you realize throughout history it’s the one thing, you close areas down and we had to do it,” Trump said.
The president said the high death toll projections would have not been sustainable or acceptable.
To hear the entire interview between President Donald Trump and WBAP’s Rick Roberts, click below.
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