The Politico Magazine digital editor Zack Stanton has put together a lists of The Worst Predictions of 2020 with a subtitle ‘This year was impossible to predict. But that doesn’t mean people didn’t try.’

The following are the quotes directly lifted from the magazine’s list:

The coronavirus will simply “go away”

President Trump, many many times (source: Politico Magazine)

• March 6: “It’ll go away.”
• March 10: “Just stay calm. It will go away.”
• March 12: “It’s going to go away.”
• March 30: “It will go away. You know it — you know it is going away, and it will go away, and we’re going to have a great victory.”
• March 31: “It’s going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month. And, if not, hopefully it will be soon after that.”
• April 3: “It is going to go away… It’s going — I didn’t say a date. … I said ‘it’s going away,’ and it is going away.”
• April 7: “It did go — it will go away.”
• May 15: “It’ll go away — at some point, it’ll go away.”
• June 15: “At some point, this stuff goes away. And it’s going away.”
• July 19: “I will be right eventually. You know, I said, ‘It’s going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again.”
• Aug. 5: “This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away.”
• Aug. 31: “It’s going to go away.”
• Sept. 15: “It is going away. And it’s probably going to go away now a lot faster because of the vaccines.”
• Oct. 10: “It’s going to disappear; it is disappearing.”
• Oct. 24: “It is going away; it’s rounding the turn.”

“If he loses, Trump will concede gracefully”

Predicted by Mick Mulvaney, Nov. 7

“Covid-19 will kill roughly 500 — make that 5,000 — Americans, tops.”

Predicted by Richard Epstein, March 16 and March 23

Biden’s South Carolina primary victory is “not the win [he] needed,” and Bernie will dominate Super Tuesday

Predicted by Hugh Hewitt, March 1

“There isn’t a coronavirus ‘second wave’”

Predicted by Vice President Mike Pence, June 16

By the end of April, there will be “close to zero” new coronavirus cases in the U.S.

Predicted by Elon Musk, March 19

“Trump will keep the coronavirus from coming to the U.S. We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here. We will not see terrorism come here. And isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?”

Predicted by Kayleigh McEnany, Feb. 25

If it ends up that Biden wins in November. I guarantee you the week after the election, suddenly all those Democratic governors, all those Democratic mayors, will say, ‘Everything’s magically better. Go back to work. Go back to school. Suddenly all the problems are solved.’ You won’t have to wait for Biden to be sworn in.

Predicted by Sen. Ted Cruz, July 22

“We’re not going to see an effective [coronavirus] vaccine proven safe until well into 2021, if then”

Predicted by Dr. Irwin Redlener (among others), May 15

Coronavirus will go away “with the heat” of summer/sunlight can “kill it”

Predicted by Donald Trump, Feb. 10 and Apr. 23