On a campaign outing in Michigan, Donald Trump championed his administration’s actions on coronavirus despite overseeing the world’s highest death toll, as he told the crowd: “You’re seeing how good we’re doing, relative to other countries?”
The US president then compared himself to Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, as he defended downplaying the seriousness of coronavirus to the public, because he wanted Americans to “keep calm and carry on”, like the British people in World War Two.
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