>> Coronavirus cases continue to surge in the United States.
Which is something that Trump should take ownership of since it is squarely his failure.
But instead of taking responsibility he's decided to point fingers at a country that's
actually done extremely well in responding to coronavirus.
And that's New Zealand.
His latest attack is against New Zealand, a country that recorded just nine new cases
of coronavirus on Monday.
Let's hear what he had to say.
>> The places that they were using to hold up, they're having a big surge.
They're having a, and I don't want that, I don't want that.
But they were holding up names of countries and now they're saying oops.
Fact even New Zealand you see what's going on in New Zealand.
They beat it, they beat it.
It was like front page they beat it because they wanted to show me something.
The problem is big surge in New Zealand so, it's terrible, we don't want that.
>> Now of course, there is not a big surge in New Zealand.
I mean, you could maybe technically refer to it as a big surge when you consider the
several months New Zealand went without recording a single case of coronavirus.
So if you consider zero cases, going to nine cases, yeah, I guess big surge.
But let's do some numbers.
Let's look at the numbers and see where the United States is and where New Zealand which
is led by a competent person is with coronavirus cases and deaths.
So New Zealand as I mentioned earlier recorded just nine new cases on Monday of this week.
On Tuesday 13 more were reported.
The United States were at least 173,000 people have died, has recently averaged around 50,000
new cases each day.
Now, of course, the United States is a much bigger country, the population of New Zealand
is around 5 million people.
But even if you look at the numbers per capital, the United States is far worse than New Zealand.
And guess what the second they started recording new cases, they decided to shut things down
again.
That's what happens in, countries that are led by competent people with a competent electorate.
Anyway, so the United States had just has just 4% of the world's population, by the
way, but about one quarter of global cases.
So that's where the United States is.
New Zealand has had just 22, 22 total COVID-19 deaths.
Until last week, the island nation went 102 days without recording a new coronavirus case.
And by the way, let me just note that the United Staes has about 5.5 million confirmed
cases of coronavirus.
And yes, that number is likely to be an underestimate.
Because there are plenty of people who haven't gotten tested but have the virus.
Or didn't feel comfortable going to the doctor's office if they suspected they had the virus.
There have been some stories about certain states suppressing the actual numbers of coronavirus
cases as well.
Florida being one of them because, of course, Florida.
And let's go to the Prime Minister of New Zealand to hear what she has to say, this
is Jacinda Ardern.
>> Obviously, I don't think there's any comparison between New Zealand's current cluster.
And the tens of thousands of cases that are being seen daily in the United States.
Obviously every country is experiencing its own fight with COVID-19.
It is a tricky virus, but not one where I would compare New Zealand's current status
to the United States.
Look, I think for anyone who's following COVID and its transmission globally.
Will quite easily see that New Zealand's nine cases in a day does not compare to the United
States' tens of thousands.
And in fact it does not compare to most countries in the real world.
I'm not concerned about people missing to printing out our status.
>> There has never been a time in my life where I've been more embarrassed to be an
American.
I'm embarrassed to be an American, this is embarrassing.
Cenk, what do you think?
>> Yeah.
So all right, let's too compare and contrast.
So, first thing that right wingers are gonna say cuz they think they're smart.
Our best experts told me that you're supposed to put per capita.
I don't know what that means, but I think you're supposed to it.
All right, no problem, let's do it that way, okay?
And I agree.
So, New Zealand has only about five million people, we have about 330 million people.
So we're 66 times larger than New Zealand.
Let's keep it in perspective.
So they have had 22 deaths, so you gotta multiply that by 66.
22 seems like a really low number, but when you multiply it by 66 it's 1452 deaths if
they had the same population as us.
How many deaths have we had so far?
We're almost at 175,000 deaths, 1,452 is substantially lower than 175,000.
Okay, now I also did the same math when it comes to their new raging cases.
Well it's true that if you're jumping from 0 cases for 102 days straight to 9 cases.
Hey, wow, look at that, it really did pop up a lot, didn't it?
But 9 times 66 is 858 cases, if they were the size of America.
How many cases do we have as Anna just read to you?
We have averaged around 50,000 cases every single day.
So 858 is substantially lower than 50,000 cases.
You know what that shows you?
That shows you that Donald Trump is as epic incompetence and he just didn't do this right
at all.
The countries like New Zealand, and yes even China and South Korea and Germany that did
two.
Well they did a couple of things that are super important but two that really really
jump out.
Number one, everybody put on masks right away.
There was no idiots going, hey to freedom, I want the freedom to get coronavirus has
spread into my ears.
Right there was none of that garbage in smart countries.
Because they don't have right wing lunatics to the degree that we do, and they wouldn't
tolerate it.
Look, China's got a lot of downsides and they're authoritarian.
But one of the things was, yeah, you're gonna go outside, well in Wuhan when we're doing
a lockdown.
No, you're not.
And you're gonna go outside without a mask, no.
Not only did they arrest everybody outside who wasn't supposed to be outside at the height
of their lockdown.
I'm not saying we go that far, but this is how you take things seriously.
Now, there was somebody that once didn't wear a mask while jogging outside it was a foreigner.
I think she's Australian or something, they kicked her out the country immediately.
Evicted her from the country, okay?
So, no we're not dealing with that crap.
So New Zealand, the second thing that they did was testing, unbelievable amount of tests,
okay?
Now we do either one of those things we had a leader who went like and so-
>> We never won.
>> We never won idiot that he is.
So, but look he's main point was I gotta reopen the economy because the stock market is gonna
determine whether I win re-election.
And I don't care how many of you die I just wanna win re-election.
But you moron we could have reopened the economy like all these other countries did months
ago, if you just done the mass and the testing earlier.
So look guys, I know a lot of folks who don't know anything about the news, don't follow
the news.
And they just generally good Trump a guy, I'm a Republican, he's a Republican.
He hates brown people, I hate brown people.
Let's move on, I'm voting for him.
I got it, right.
But if you know even 10% About what Trump has done, and you're proud of him?
And you're proud of our hundred and 75,000 deaths?
We lead the world in deaths.
You're proud that we bungled this worse than Rwanda and Tajikistan and literally every
country in the world.
Well, look then you're proud of being a moron.
And and I don't I don't want anything to do with you.
So go and just, I just I can't stand they walk amongst us, these idiots who ruined it
for this country.
>> And look, of course, the worst part is that people who did not need to lose their
lives during this pandemic have died, right?
Gave you the numbers, it's a little over 173,000 people at this point, and the number is definitely
likely to increase.
Especially when we're recording on average 50,000 new coronavirus cases each day.
But I mean for people who aren't persuaded by saving lives.
And you're only thinking about yourself and your individualism and how you just wanna
go out and have a good time.
Sometimes I mean, this is supposed to be American culture, it's really not, right?
But American culture is supposed to indicate that if you work really hard, if you do what
you need to do in the short term.
That in the future, you can have a good time or you can get what you want, right?
So, in Wuhan, China, what are they doing right now?
And look, let me just preface this by saying, I'm not 100% trusting of the news coming out
of Wuhan, China.
But there are some images showing what the young people in Wuhan are doing right now.
And here's a perfect example.
Here's the Wuhan Maya Beach Waterpark, where people are waterparking they're having a good
time.
And so apparently, China has combated the virus according to what we're seeing with
our own eyes with all these like massive parties and stuff.
They've combated the virus to the point where people are comfortable going out, people are
having a good time, doesn't seem to be a giant issue, right?
Again, massive caveat.
There is some potential that China isn't being 100% honest with us here.
But yeah, if you look at the images, they're just a crowded pool parties.
And China took the virus seriously once they acknowledge the virus exists.
So I don't really see them, doing something as counterproductive as allowing like massive
water park parked parties to happen.
If people are still spreading that virus in their country.
>> So Trump everyone is always, do we like do just like that?
And can't always take what the Chinese government says with a grain of salt?
I know I don't trust that they're being perfectly honest, of course not.
But there are real facts coming out of there from time to time.
And one thing that is undeniable is there's no way that authoritarian Chinese government
is going to allow for a massive pool party with thousands of people in Wuhan.
If they think there's an outbreak.
They'd rather send everyone there to a gulag, than let them go to a party like that.
So they have not had cases in Wuhan for a long time.
You know how many tests they did in the beginning in just that province?
Six and a half million.
That was like six months ago, six and a half million in one province.
Donald, would go, we're doing a lot of testing, it's why we have a lot of cases cuz we do
a lot of testing.
No, no, we're not doing nearly enough testing.
And we have massive cases because you took none of the right precautions.
Right now we could be out, like people, these right wingers haven't convinced their heads
to because of idiots like Tucker Carlson and Trump.
That the left wing somehow likes to be locked up in their house and doesn't wanna go to
restaurants and go into pools in the middle of the summer.
No, we all want that, we all want a good economy, we all want our businesses to flourish, right?
And we're trying to tell you, right wingers, you could get there quicker if you follow
science.
But if you're an idiot, it's gonna take way longer and a lot more people are gonna die.
I'm gonna to Ash Khan one of our members.
He says Cenk, the population of America is to blame as well for being science deniers,
in New Zealand my guess is their population is probably more rational.
This shows America is dumb.
Let me explain one quick thing, I don't accept that for the whole country.
But there's the right wing in this country, there's a right wing in every country, right?
They're more traditionalist, more in favor of the status quo, they don't want things
to change, that's why they're conservative.
And hence all they stick to the wrong heritage and world traditions throughout the world
in all these different countries for conservatives.
But in America, Fox News has built a culture of stupidity, where they celebrate their stupidity.
So they I don't know the right wing in New Zealand or South Korea nearly as well.
But I would be shocked if their right wing says no, you should not believe in science.
Two plus two does not equal four.
You don't have to wear mask, there is no such thing as evolution and there is no such thing
as climate change.
No that is unique to America.
America's right wing has chosen stupidity, and they built a culture around it.
So we shouldn't be surprised that about 35% of this country is off their rocker.
And that's why we've become a third world country that has done far worse than almost.
Than literally every country on the planet in dealing with coronavirus cases.
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