Melania Trump told her husband Covid was 'going to be really bad' and he was 'blowing' the US's response, book says

According to a forthcoming book on Donald Trump's presidency, his wife worried that he was blowing the US response to COVID, but he told her she was too worried.

New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser wrote in their book "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021" that Trump's wife was "rattled by the coronaviruses and convinced that he was

According to CNN's report on the book, she shared her concerns with Chris Christie, a Trump ally, in order to convince her husband to take it more seriously.

She told her husband that she was blowing this, according to CNN. This is not ok. It's going to be bad, and you need to be more careful than you are. She had just been fired by him. She remembered him telling her that she was too worried. "Forget it."

Disinfectant injections and sunlight treatments were suggested by Trump as the nation faced mounting death tolls. He held a ceremony at the Coney Rose Garden to announce the appointment of AmyBarrett to the Supreme Court.

After the event, he and his wife decided to have a baby. The president didn't take appropriate precautions for his health or the risk of contracting the virus seriously, according to a survey.

In an interview with Bob Woodward for the book "Rage", Trump admitted that the flu was more dangerous than the virus, even though he said it was no worse. Trump told Woodward that he wanted to downplay the situation. I like playing it down because I don't want to make a big deal out of it.

He said he wanted the nation to open up and be ready for Easter.