//Why Trump shouldn’t compare America’s Covid-19 outbreak to New Zealand’s, in one chart

Why Trump shouldn’t compare America’s Covid-19 outbreak to New Zealand’s, in one chart

President Donald Trump hosts a press briefing at the White House on August 19, 2020. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

America’s coronavirus epidemic is simply much worse than New Zealand’s — and other developed nations’.

President Donald Trump keeps claiming that New Zealand’s Covid-19 outbreak is really bad — even though America’s own epidemic, by every single measurement, completely overshadows New Zealand’s.

Trump, at a press conference on Wednesday, again brought up New Zealand: “New Zealand, by the way, had a big outbreak, and other countries that were held up to try and make us look not as good as we should look because we’ve done an incredible job.”

That followed Trump’s previous comments on Monday about New Zealand, in which he called the country’s outbreak “terrible” and claimed that, in an attempt to make him look bad, his critics had cited New Zealand, among