Trump says we’re doing better than ‘most other countries’ on coronavirus. Not even close.

Washington Post logoAs President Trump prepares to rekindle his coronavirus briefings, he appears to have landed on a new talking point: Three times in three days, President Trump has downplayed the outbreak in the United States by suggesting that other countries’ even-worse problems are being ignored.

He might want to rethink that comparison.

“You know, it’s not just this country; it’s many countries,” Trump told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “We don’t talk about it in the news. They don’t talk about Mexico and Brazil and still parts of Europe — which actually got hit sooner than us, so it’s a little ahead of us in that sense. But you take a look, why don’t they talk about Mexico?” Continue reading.