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- President Trump got into a bit of a tiff over the coronavirus death rate during an interview over the weekend with Fox News Sunday.
- President Trump was under the impression that the US has one of the lowest coronavirus death rates in the world.
- Actually, the opposite is true, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
President Trump gave a rambling and headline-making interview to Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace over the weekend, which included among other tidbits his tense back-and-forth with Wallace over the difficulty of a cognitive test the president recently took. (Read our previous coverage here about the test Trump took at Walter Reed Medical Center, which actually is supposed to measure cognitive decline -- not intelligence).
Meantime, there was another revealing exchange between Trump and the host that underscores how disconnected the leader of the free world apparently is from the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the US. Long story short, the president thinks that while the coronavirus numbers in the US may be pretty terrible, at least we have one of the lowest and coronavirus death rates in the world. Of course, the complete opposite is true.
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A Fox News host tried to fact-check Trump live about the coronavirus originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 17:05:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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