A supporter photographs President Trump as he speaks during the first day of the Republican National Convention. | Travis Dove/New York Times via AP

The United States has had one of the world’s worst responses to Covid-19. Trump wants you to believe the opposite.

If you spent the last five months living in a cave, then learned about the outside world solely through a livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention, you would think Donald Trump was a visionary leader who saw what no one else saw — and who has led his nation to triumph against a deadly plague as a result.

“From the very beginning,” starts an RNC video misrepresenting Trump’s record on Covid-19, “Democrats, the media, and the World Health Organization got coronavirus wrong.” As heroic music plays over an image of Trump surrounded by American flags, the video claims, “one