President Donald Trump holds a rally in Avoca, Pennsylvania, on November 2, 2020. | Taylor Hill/Getty Images

The coronavirus has killed more than 230,000 Americans.

President Donald Trump is closing his 2020 presidential campaign by arguing that his only mistake in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic was mishandling “public relations.”

“We got hit with the ‘China virus,’” Trump said on Tuesday during a stop at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. “We’ve done an incredible job with respect to that — other than public relations.”

Trump cited his administration’s initial projections that 2.2 million people would die in the US due to the coronavirus. Because 230,000 have died in the US instead, Trump said his administration actually saved 2 million lives. He also cited an “incredible job” on developing treatments for the disease.

It’s the message that Trump has pushed in the past several