Trump seemed not to know what the '19' in COVID-19 stood for at a rally in Phoenix, where he also broke city rules by not wearing a mask

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• President Donald Trump expressed confusion about where the '19' in COVID-19 comes from during his rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday night. 
• "I said, 'What's the 19?' COVID-19, some people can't explain what the '19' [means]," he said. 
• The president also ignored a local law which mandates wearing a mask in public. 
• Most of the 3,000-strong crowd also went without a mask, according to Politico.
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President Donald Trump seemed confused about the origin of the '19' in COVID-19 during his rally in Phoenix, Arizona, as he riffed on various names for the virus on Tuesday. 

"I could give you 19 or 20 names for that, right," said Trump to the student crowd, who were gathered for a rally organized by Students for Trump. 

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