Name: Trump response to coronavirus compared to Wilson and ‘Spanish Flu’
Uploaded: Sun Mar 08 2020 19:33:07 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Description: Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is compared to President Woodrow Wilson’s response to the ‘Spanish Flu’ outbreak during WWI, during which Wilson lied to the public to prevent panic about the deadly, viral outbreak that killed 675,000 Americans. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss joins Joy Reid to discuss.

March 8, 202003:10

Woodrow Wilson lied about ‘Spanish Flu,’ likely helping it spread