He tried many times to prevent covid testing. Because if there’s no testing, there’s no covid.

So he was all about controlling the narrative about it, because he didn’t think of it as a real problem. When the vaccine came out he took credit for it, but then when he got booed by his supporters for taking credit for it, he stopped talking about it.

So while he didn’t explicitly say “covid isn’t real” or anything, he didn’t take it seriously, and didn’t make an effort to argue against conspiracy theories promoted by his various minions.