"When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total," President Trump said on Monday. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
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President Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus this week. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Medical staff in Marseille, France show packets of a Nivaquine, tablets containing chloroquine and Plaqueril, tablets containing hydroxychloroquine. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks during the daily briefing Friday on the novel coronavirus. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Health care professionals prepare to screen people for the coronavirus at a testing site in Phoenix. Christian Petersen/Getty Images hide caption
Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday to a refrigerated truck. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force press briefing on March 29. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Cars cross 42th Street as rain falls on New York City. President Trump considered, and then dropped, a proposed quarantine of New York state, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Sen. Bernie Sanders makes a point during the 11th Democratic Party presidential debate in March. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at a drive-through coronavirus testing site in front of Hard Rock Stadium on Monday. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Russian regional officials via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 30, 2020. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP hide caption
President Trump takes questions from reporters during a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House on Sunday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
A medical staff member checks on a ventilator in an intensive care unit. President Trump and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are locked in a dispute about New York's need for ventilators amid the coronavirus. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the White House briefing room Wednesday. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
A health care worker with the UNLV School of Medicine tests a patient for the coronavirus at a drive-thru testing site in Las Vegas. John Locher/AP hide caption
President Donald Trump talks with host Bill Hemmer Tuesday during a Fox News virtual town hall with members of the coronavirus task force at the White House. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
President Trump has repeatedly compared the effect of the seasonal flu with that of the coronavirus. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption