Trump speaks in Ohio on Monday. | Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images

Trump’s Covid-19 rhetoric hit new heights of irresponsibility in Ohio.

Instead of taking a moment to grieve the nearly 200,000 Americans who were confirmed to have died from Covid-19 as of his rally Monday evening in Swanton, Ohio, President Donald Trump erased them.

“It affects virtually nobody,” Trump said of the coronavirus. “It’s an amazing thing.”

By Tuesday morning, the disease had officially had killed 200,000 people in the US — a number more than the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War combined — and “affected” even more.

The president was trying to highlight how deaths from the virus are concentrated among older people and those with preexisting conditions