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Pointing to a graphic purporting to show that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would likely be in the 1.5 to 2.2 million range had the nation done nothing in response to the pandemic, Trump told reporters, "We're below that substantially, and we'll see what comes out."
"If the not-so-good job was done, you'd be between 1.5 million—I remember these numbers so well—and 2.2 million. That's quite a difference," the president said.
"So we're down in this territory," Trump continued, pointing to the 100,000 to 240,000 projected death toll displayed on the chart. "And that's despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we're at a level that I don't think anybody in the world would be at. We're really at a very low level. But some of the states, they were blue states and blue-state-managed."
"Over time, though, the percentage of total deaths that have occurred in blue states has dropped," Bump continued. "The most recent data, through Tuesday, indicates that about 53 percent of deaths have occurred in blue states—meaning that 47 percent have occurred in red ones. In other words, more than 90,000 deaths have occurred in red states. If that were the country's total, we would have seen the second-most number of deaths globally, trailing only Brazil."
- I'm all for hatin' on the trumpster, but isn't this being taken out of context?SteveJobs
- sounds like a lame jab at libs by saying saying how poorly the blue states managed the response, and if you don't factor that in, the numbers would be better?SteveJobs
- Trump takes Trump out of context every single day.utopian
- yes, he's attempting to pass the buck to states for a global pandemic where states were denied PPE by the federal govt...smh pieces of shitwhatthefunk
- @steve, purlease...fadein11
- idk, i just think he's committed far more egregious acts than this...SteveJobs
- too often people sensationalize the wrong things and weaken their side's position by creating this rhetoric white noiseSteveJobs
- nah, he just blamed the death toll on democrats.fadein11
- Blue states are the only ones people visit or that get anything done.monospaced
- he still believes in some part of his brain that the virus is a hoax from the dems.neverscared
- The blues states are mostly where all the people are. He just says stupid shit because he's a sociopath.PhanLo
- its whathefuck paid click bait agit prop. in defense of steve. cdc data on excessive deaths are roughly 1/3 of the deaths. and failures in largely blue states********
- *nursing homes are 1/3 (alzheim/dementia) excessive deaths" look at your blue states and NY is big on that for huge amounts of deaths.********
- wether a failure of gov like NY to protect, or just provide and grow end of life money farms. well a whole nuther thing to talk about********
- https://www.cdc.gov/…********
- and remember that excess is on top normal ~1.5-2 million related medical death per year. as far as a scale of what is typical and if it was a headline********
- would u be like OMG. death increased from 1.5 -1.7 million. lockdown country and go 30 million unemployed! increasing domestic violence, suicide, debt, .. 4 ALL********
- at least it seems he is out of office soom , with such a nazi rhetoric he should have never been prez.. its a shame.neverscared
- naw man hes in for sure unless some big election plot nacy pelosi hopes for to make her interim pres********
- but surprised you ignored all that info and went straight to "naw man he has to be out, havent been told to think anything else.." like news anchors on 2016********
- TDB;DRgarbage