Yeah, it doesn't sound good at all, but the media would be sure to take this quote and broadcast it as long as they live.
so I thought that I should clarify why you should slow down testing.
think about it like that:
assume that there are only 100 real cases and up to now your testing has detected only 10 out of the 100. let's assume that the number of real cases is starting to go down, for example only 85 cases are left.
but what you do, because you're stupid, is to increase the rate of growth of new tests. so you test even more than before and see that now 20 people are infected. so you conclude that the virus reach was doubled even if in fact in reality it's actually going down. and this can be done again, if the number of real cases is now down to 60, you can continue increasing the rate of new testing and see that 40 people are infected -> the virus has doubled its reach again!
all the while other countries keep the rate of new testing relatively the same and "miraculously" starting to see a drop in the number of cases.
trump's idea to slow down testing is so that the "ruler" they use to measure the infection rate by won't stretch while they are measuring, and also so that evil people would not be able to spread fear and misinformation for their political gain using "science".
All of the testing and testing and testing really doesn't do much nowadays other than peddle more fear-mongering. People are going to get the virus. It isn't going away, it'll be here forever. People will get it. The majority of them will not show symptoms. God knows how many people have already been exposed to it and never knew. Testing positive does not mean certain death. Hardly means anything at all, especially as the tests are very unreliable.
The enormous amount of testing like that is a huge waste of time and money. The virus is going to spread, and you cannot stop it. It's way way too late in the game to even think about containing it. Just let it happen and it'll burn out by itself. You don't have to identify every single person it spreads to.