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Donald Trump Makes Bizarre Claim US Is Beating Coronavirus: ‘We’re Last, Meaning We’re First’

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After nearly four years of perplexing interviews with US president Donald Trump, the bar is pretty high for what qualifies as outrageous, jaw-dropping or even just plain mad.

Enter Jonathan Swan of American news site Axios, who not only managed to clear that bar but fly so far over it that even in 2020 his interview has still managed to prompt a general response of “omg is this actually real life?”.

Much of the interview covered the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which has so far killed more than 150,000 Americans – the highest death toll of any country.

In a particularly bizarre segment, Trump brandished pieces of paper while trying to convince Swan that his administration was winning the battle against the virus.

The president said: “Those people who really understand it say it’s incredible, the job that we’ve done.”

Swan replied: ”Who says that?”

There was no reply from the president. Instead, he continued to insist that other countries were faring far worse.

Trump: “If you look a this chart here, the United States is lower in numerous categories. We’re lower than... the world.”

Swan: “Lower than the world? What does that mean?”

Trump: “Lower than Europe.

Swan: “In what? Oh, you’re doing deaths as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about deaths as a proportion of population. That’s where the US is really bad....

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