Trump speaks in Michigan on Thursday. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s strategy is to ceaselessly lie about the coronavirus and hope people either don’t notice or don’t care.

President Donald Trump’s rally on Thursday in Freeland, Michigan, illustrated how his coronavirus campaign message is basically to lie a lot and hope voters either don’t notice or don’t care.

The rally took place on a day when 36,000 new cases were reported across the country — a number many times greater than the roughly 1,900 that were reported in Germany, the 500 in Japan, or the 600 in Canada. There were more than 1,100 Covid-19 deaths in the US on Thursday, compared to 25 in France, 71 in Spain, and four in South Korea. Over the past week, out of European and Asian countries, only Spain has averaged more daily cases per 100,000