To avoid spreading COVID-19 among a large host of interviewees, many safety measures were taken. These included sending sterilized camera equipment to interview subjects so that they could film themselves, interviewing via video conference, and setting up large plastic barriers between cameras and participants.
The title comes from an offhand remark that Donald Trump made on January 22, 2020, less than three months before the USA became the number-one country for cumulative COVID-19 deaths.
Alex Gibney was motivated to make the film after one of his friends passed away from COVID-19 and another was placed on a ventilator.
Normally a solo director, Alex Gibney recruited producers Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger as fellow directors to finish the film before the United States' 2020 general elections.