San Francisco Chronicle

Trump boasts as toll hits 200,000 deaths

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President Trump says he has done an “amazing” and “incredible job” handling the coronaviru­s, even as the country surpasses 200,000 virus deaths.

Trump boasted of his administra­tion’s efforts in an interview with WJBK FOX 2 Detroit at the White House on Tuesday just before Johns Hopkins University announced the confirmed U.S. death toll now tops 200,000 people — the highest in the world.

He claims, “We’ve done an incredible job between the ventilator­s and now the vaccines and everything else and the therapeuti­cs” and insisted, “The only thing we’ve done a bad job in is public relations because we haven’t been able to convince people — which is basically the fake news — what a great job we’ve done.”

 ?? Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images ?? Activists unfurl a banner that says “200,000 Covid Deaths! Trump/Pence Out Now” in Los Angeles.
Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images Activists unfurl a banner that says “200,000 Covid Deaths! Trump/Pence Out Now” in Los Angeles.

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