“Archive context (May 2020): The following quotation is from remarks by President Donald Trump during the early COVID-19 pandemic. The comparisons to Pearl Harbor and September 11 are the speaker’s rhetoric, not an objective ranking of historical events. The source is retained as a record of public statements at that time.
This is really the worst attack we’ve ever had. This is worse than Pearl Harbor. This is worse than the World Trade Center. There’s never been an attack like this. And it should have never happened. It could have been stopped at the source. It could have been stopped in China. It should have been stopped right at the source, and it wasn’t.”
Source: Remarks by President Trump at Signing of a Proclamation in Honor of National Nurses Day
May 6, 2020
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-signing-proclamation-honor-national-nurses-day/