Trump's 'car crash' interview claiming US coronavirus deaths ‘lower than the world’

Donald Trump has claimed the United States is ‘lower than the world’ for coronavirus in an HBO Axios interview hailed a 'car crash'.

The president was grilled on his handling of the pandemic by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan.

When the exchange turned to the spiralling number of coronavirus deaths across the US, Trump furiously shuffled some pieces of A4 paper showing some colourful bar charts.

He then claimed the US is ‘lowest in numerous categories’, by which point, the very confused interviewer tells the President that he was asking about death as a proportion of population, not death as a proportion of cases.

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[zlatkajupe]

"We're lower than the world. We're lower than Europe."
"In what? In what?"

*Education*

[abik]

It feels like a 5 yr old giving an explanation to his teacher about the stupid answers he wrote in his exam

[crankydeer]

“You can’t do that” - I can’t breathe 💀💀

[Taoistimmortal]

You can't do that. It's a great number, it's beautiful and we are number one.

[VILLIN-]

"We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated" - Donald Trump.

[xiaorishu]

I can't get over the contrast between the colour of Trump's face and his ears lol.

[daysrann]

Two things are high in here:

1. Coronavirus case
2. Trump

[lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr]

Does someone want to tell him that America is part of 'the world'?

[waichungsham]

I can't believe he's got launch codes for nukes.

[jockmackay]

This sort of thing really highlights how far things have fallen.

[JoeBlow-chjy]

Trump handed the guy that graph like a middle schooler handing his teacher a book report he had his friend write for him.

[OzzersOz]

"We're lower than the world" - Donald Trump is a big brain.

[plerpplerp]

"USA is lower than the world"

Putin must be grinning in his fists.😏

[shaunm]

“You can’t do that” - “Why can’t I do that.?” Cue floundering and gibberish.

[bruhbruhin_a_sling]

The reporter was confused because the paper said: Sive isn’t a simp

[beanie]

And this, people, is how Trump failed his SATs...

[SOSOSO]

Is he trying to say “ The US death toll is lower than the total of the rest of the world ?” Big brain!

[theQuestion]

This is like watching a 10-year-old make up a book report and speech to the class on the fly.

[davemccauley]

“When the "law" no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.” — Ayn Rand

[wilfrand]

I think Trump thinks that having a higher number is better😂