//Trump’s new favorite talking point about US coronavirus cases is highly misleading

Trump’s new favorite talking point about US coronavirus cases is highly misleading

Trump during a White House news briefing on Tuesday. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

Trump wants you to believe the US coronavirus outbreak is similar to Germany’s and South Korea’s. Don’t buy it.

President Donald Trump wants the public to believe that countries like Germany, Japan, and Australia are doing as poorly as the United States when it comes to the coronavirus. His continued insistence that this is the case misrepresents the facts: In reality, the outbreaks here and in those countries are worlds apart in scale.

During his press briefing on Wednesday, Trump said, “Now you look at the explosion of countries’ ties that you would’ve said did such a good job … when you look at the job we’ve done compared to others, we’ve done a great job.”

Trump is really trying to convince people that up is down and the