President Donald Trump embarrassed himself and the nation again in a late post-midnight rant insisting that the United States is number one in coronavirus testing, only to get brutally fact-checked by Twitter users.
Trump’s failure to get proper testing to states is just one reason why our country has one million cases of the virus and why nearly 60,000 Americans are dead.
But he tried to use the number of cases to claim that testing is somehow better here than anywhere else on the planet.
The only reason the U.S. has reported one million cases of CoronaVirus is that our Testing is sooo much better than any other country in the World. Other countries are way behind us in Testing, and therefore show far fewer cases!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2020
As usual, Trump is wrong. And Twitter users had the statistics to prove it.
Bullsh°t. The US has tested only 1.6% of its population, which compared to every other iindustrialized country is one of the very lowest amounts of testing done per capita.
— ResistanceRules (@ResistanceRules) April 29, 2020
— ResistanceRules (@ResistanceRules) April 29, 2020
ACTUAL FACTS
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US has 04% of world population
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US has 33% of world infections
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US has 25% of world fatalities
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1.75% of Americans have been tested
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US is 38 out of 184 countries tests per million population
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US current rate of test will not be 2% population— MickeyBitsko (@MrMickeyBitsko) April 29, 2020
So basically you’re saying that some countries would have a higher case count but still have far less deaths than the United States.
That makes us look even worse. ?
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) April 29, 2020
Trump knows it’s not the ONLY reason. The other reason for one million cases is he blew the opportunity to reduce that number.
Trump minimized the risk of the virus and talked up the DOW, valuing the markets more than American lives. pic.twitter.com/NIllMiJASu
— Eric Applebaum (@applebaum_eric) April 29, 2020
South Korea has 60 million people. USA has 340M. We’ve done less per capita testing than every developed country on the planet.
But congrats for Trump making US better than Zimbabwe‽ pic.twitter.com/k4uMkcNDcu
— AJ (@smartlyjoan) April 29, 2020
He is. Like when he bragged about being the first president to have a state of emergency in all 50 states.
— Joe Snuffy (@Richie_Hertz) April 29, 2020
Well this is awkward :/ pic.twitter.com/C2xft7ebMY
— ems (@emsdi1) April 29, 2020
Tests / 1 M pop:
USA: 17.885
Canada: 19.999
Germany: 24.738
Spain: 28.779
Italy: 30.547
Isreal: 36.177
Portugal: 37.223USA under Trump loses again.
— Thorsten in Lockdown (@Airvooocht) April 29, 2020
The United States is clearly the worst country to be in during the pandemic. That’s what happens when you have an incompetent and reckless leader.
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