Yet when Trump was asked about Kushner’s remarks on Thursday, he endorsed them and argued that the White House’s only failure was in communicating its success.
“I don’t think anybody has done the job that we’ve done, other than at public relations, because the press just won’t talk about the facts,” he said.
The U.S. is indeed the leader of the world—in total COVID-19 deaths, to choose one metric.
It also leads other developed nations in the growth of its death rate.
For Trump, one death is a tragedy and 60,000 are a victory.
As Steve Benen has chronicled, Trump has curiously kept touting the low death toll, but keeps having to adjust up the number as the count rises.
Look how horrible it is to lose 65 and then multiply that times many, many times. »