At a briefing on Tuesday a Reporter from NBC asked President Trump: "Did I hear you saying you're confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day?"

President Trump replied: "Oh, well, we're going to be there very soon. If you look at the numbers, it could be that we're getting very close. I mean, I don't have the exact numbers. We would've had them if you asked me the same question a little while ago because people with the statistics were there. We're going to be there very soon. We're really — we're really doing — I mean, I watched your report on NBC today and it was an incorrect report, because we're really doing a great job on testing...

Even though this was broadcast on TV President Trump said a day later, "I didn't say it, Where did it ... come from? ... It's sort of a setup. Right now, they're testing about 200,000 per day. So that would be a significant increase".

It would indeed be a 1500% increase. 

He called the reporters question that prompted him to make the 5m tests remark a "media trap," somehow alluding that the reporter had forced him to make an answer and then cunningly a different reporter would ask him at a later date whether he answered the 

original question. 

Also on Tuesday the assistant secretary of health Admiral Brett Giroir, told TIME magazine in an interview, "There is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do five million tests a day," 

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