In a press briefing on the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump opened up on Tuesday about the “scariest day of his life.”

In his statement, the president recounted a month ago, that after a long and exhausting day of meeting with his team, Trump received the information that the country might not have enough ventilators for the increasing number of COVID-19 patients. The president was informed that they might need as much as 130,000 ventilators. However, based on the supply, Trump said that “we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators.”

“I knew that every person that needed a ventilator and didn’t get one would die,” the president continued. In the same meeting, Trump shared that he had been warned about the grim outcomes, citing instances in which doctors were forced to choose which patient can get a ventilator.

Fearing that hundreds and thousands of Americans might die, the president told his team to “move heaven and earth” to ensure that the country would not have to go through the worst-case scenario.

During his speech, the president added that governors had been requesting “unreasonable” quantities of ventilators. However, Trump was grateful that the country would not need as many ventilators as previously predicted. He also shared that his team had effectively given out the ventilators, and monitored the supply, to make sure that no American would be left out. The president also boasted that he had instructed the manufacturing of as much as 150,000 to 200,000 “high quality” ventilators. The massive numbers will be added to a “federal stockpile” that had been depleted during the Obama administration.

Most importantly, the president expressed his disdain over the alleged China cover-up by the World Health Organization. Trump said that the renowned health organization chose “political measure” rather than saving lives. The president specifically referred to the WHO’s criticisms over Trump’s travel ban on China. “The WHO failed in this duty and must be held accountable,” Trump concluded as he announced to halt WHO funding.

Doctor Fauci, as well as the media, had also expressed “cautious optimism.” Based on the recent data, Forbes reported that the country might be experiencing a “flattening of the curve.” In the article, writer Brad McMillan claimed that “tentative signs of the infection curve” had been going down.

The number of cases had dropped from 35,000 on April 8, to 27,000 cases on April 15. According to McMillan, while the numbers might remain high, the country would most probably see the number of cases decline in the next few days. Currently, the country has 614,180 confirmed cases, with 26,061 fatalities, and 49,857 recovered patients.

Moreover, the president has also reached out to tech giants, to conclude and analyze the best time for the country’s re-opening. Some of the names that Trump had mentioned were: Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone; Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase; Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook; Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, and billionaire Mark Cuban.