>> I think it's under control. I'll tell you what,-
>> How, 1,000 Americans are dying a day. >> They are dying, that's true. And it is
what it is. >> At this point, most Americans are used
to Donald Trump's callous nature especially when it comes to the death and destruction
caused by coronavirus.
And his inability to provide any type of leadership or response to this pandemic that would save
people's lives. During a recent interview with Axio's Jonathan Swan, Donald Trump gave
us even more insight into just how little he cares about the lives of Americans. The
lives of Americans who have already died and the lives of Americans that could be lost
moving for forward.
Let's go to another portion of his conversation. >> The figure I look at is death and death
is going up now. That's 1,000 a day. >> If you look at death,-
>> Yeah, it's going up again, daily death. >> Take a look at some of these charts.
>> I'd love to.
>> We're gonna look. >> Let's look.
>> And if you look at death here, this one- >> Yeah, started to go up again.
>> Well, right here, the United States is lowest in numerous categories, we're lower
than the world,- >> Lower than lower.
>> Lower than Europe. >> In what, in what?
>> Take a look, right here. Here's case death. >> You're doing death as a proportion of cases.
I'm talking about death as a proportion of population. That's where the US is really
bad. >> Well, well-
>> Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc. >> You can't do that.
>> Why I can't do that? >> You have to go by where, look, here is
the United States. You have to go by the cases, the cases,-
>> Why not as a proportion of population? >> Well, Donald Trump did slip a little bit
of truth in that statement when he said that the United States is lower than the world.
And if he's referring to how poorly we've handled this pandemic compared to other countries
around the world, he would be correct. In fact, let me just go to some of the updated
numbers on this pandemic in the United States because Johnson Swan is correct. 1,000 people,
oftentimes more than 1,000 people die a day as a result of coronavirus.
And currently, we have 158,000 total deaths and the US population is 323.2 million people.
So, about 0.05% of the population has died as a result of this pandemic. Now, I do wanna
just quickly go to the next video because Donald Trump seems to be under the impression
that we're doing far better, far, far better than anyone else when it comes to testing,
when it comes to saving people's lives.
That is not the case, that is not true. Let's take a look at his argument and we'll debunk
it. >> We'll look at South Korea, for example,
51 million population, 300 deaths. It's crazy to compare.
>> You don't know that. >> I do, it's on-
>> You don't know that.
>> You think they're faking their statistics South Korea?
>> I have a very good relationship with the country, but you don't know that and they
have spikes. >> Germany low, 9,000.
>> Here's one right here, United States. You take the number of cases, now look, we're
last, meaning, we're first, we.
>> Take a look again, these cases. >> Okay.
>> And we have cases because of logistic. >> I mean, a thousand Americans have died,
I understand, I understand on cases, it's different.
>> No, but you're not reporting it correctly, Jonathan.
>> I think I am, but- >> If you take a look at this other chart,
look, this is our testing, I believe, this is the testing, yeah,
>> Yeah, we do more tests. >> No, wait a minute. Well, don't we get credit
for that? And because we do more tests, we have more cases.
>> All right so, since the comparison between the United States and South Korea came up,
I thought it was important to actually share the data and the numbers with you.
So let me just go back to the previous graphic because it's important to contextualize how
well South Korea has handled this. So again, in the United States, there have been 158,000
total deaths as a result of coronavirus. Now the total US population is 328.2 million people
and so the percentage of deaths accounts for 0.05% of the population.
Okay, now let's take a look at South Korea, where the population is 51.64 million people
when it comes to the number of deaths 301. So what percentage of their population died
as a result of coronavirus 0.0006%. We are not doing better than South Korea. We are
not the best when it comes to testing.
This country has been a complete and utter failure. This government has failed the American
people and people are dying left and right more than 1,000 people a day. And Donald Trump
refuses to take any responsibility for it, far worse than that, he refuses to acknowledge
what the reality of the situation is, Aida.
>> So first of all, I just wanna apologize for laughing because I don't want people to
think that I am laughing at the situation but laughing at how ridiculous it is that
that is the leader of the free world. And if I were you, Donald Trump, I would hate
Obama too because Obama can put sentences together.
He knows how to pull up a chart and read it. And, happy birthday, Obama. I just wanted
to say that, I'm embarrassed. But I've taken note of the people who say only this number
of people have died. They are all people who have not lost someone to COVID.
It's very easy to say only this number of people have died because you haven't been
directly affected by that. If Ivanka died of COVID, the America was shut down until
that Donald Trump could figure out how to find a cure for that. And even with her, I
don't wish death upon her.
But what I'm saying is, but look at the people who are dying of COVID, look at the numbers
of the people who are dying, they're black and brown. And in disproportionate numbers
not to undermine the number of white people who have died cuz they're all human lives.
But, where are all the all lives matter people right now while this man is employing this
harsh lack of its apathy.
It's really apathy. And the only reason he is sitting down to talk about it is because
it gives him an opportunity to speak and to be seen, but it's not because it's about this.
Every single interview in the last couple of weeks that Donald Trump has done has nothing
but show how small his mental capacity is.
From the Haiku that he recited the other day to prove that his is, what was it, his mental
capacity was there to this pulling up this chart and saying, we are better than the world.
It's like somebody that doesn't know that Africa is a continent and thinks it's a country.
We are doing better than the world, go ahead Ana.
>> I mean, brilliant points all around, you're absolutely right. And, the one commonality
among people who have died from coronavirus, of course they tend to be older, of course
disproportionally this virus has killed people of color. But a through line that you'll notice
is poverty.
People who don't even have the financial means for an emergency, much less medical bills
associated with coronavirus. Many people don't even bother to go to the hospital. I mean,
we had a long discussion about how uniquely disadvantaged this country is when it comes
to a pandemic because of how broken our healthcare system is.
And he keeps promising a revamped healthcare model, which of course he hasn't delivered
on, and to be quite honest, I wouldn't want him to deliver on it. Because his idea of
fixing things, I mean, we've seen what his idea of fixing things looks like. And this
country has further devolved in every single possible way.
I also wanna note that one thing that South Korea did that we did not do. South Korea's
COVID-19 response strategy sits atop three pillars reports the Atlantic. Fast and free
testing, expansive tracing technology, something that we didn't even attempt to do, okay, and
mandatory isolation of the most severe cases.
And by the way in South Korea, and this is partly a cultural thing, there is no issue
regarding wearing masks. There's no fight about that. And so, the culture is different,
the leadership is different. And more importantly, I think this is another true line that you're
gonna notice.
Countries that have really handled this virus well understand the importance of community.
They understand the importance of the lives of their peers, of their neighbors, of their
families. They value this collectivist approach. Whereas in the United States, individualism
has been drilled into people's heads so much that these morons running around shooting
people up because they're being asked to wear a mask.
Think that they're fighting for our liberties and our freedoms. That's what we're dealing
with right now. And, Aida, I wanna just quickly go to this next clip. And when we come back,
I wanna hear your thoughts. >> I think you misunderstand me. I'm criticizing
your ability to draw a crowd, are you kidding me?
>> I covered you for five years, you draw massive crowds. You get huge ratings. I'm
asking about the public health. >> And I cancelled another one. I had to cancel
it. >> Right.
>> I have a great crowd in New Hampshire and I cancelled it for the same reason.
>> Here's the question. I've covered you for a long time. I've gone to rallies, I've talked
to people, they love you, they listen to you, they listen to every word you say, they hang
on your every word. They don't listen to me or the media or Fauci. They think we're fake
news.
They wanna get their advice from you. And so when they hear us say, everything's under
control, don't worry about wearing masks, I mean, these are people many of them are
older people, Mr President. >> Yeah.
>> It's giving them a false sense of security. >> Under the circumstances, right now, I think
it's under control.
I'll tell you what- >> How, a thousand Americans are dying a day.
>> They are dying, that's true. And it is what it is. But that doesn't mean we aren't
doing everything we can. It's under control, as much as you can control it. This is a horrible
plague that beset us.
>> You really think this is as much as we can control it?
>> All these people are dying, but it is what it is according to Donald Trump.
>> Not even the camera work was under control for that thing, that looked like a sketch.
The cameraman was all shaky because he probably was laughing.
But, what I wanted to say, Ana, as I've been testing for COVID three times in the last
couple of months or in the last month and a half. One test was $50, one test was $125,
and one test was $250. And a lot of those costs were assumed by the production companies
that I'm working with so that I can work.
But talk about somebody who in a moment of this pandemic hasn't been working. Let's not
forget the incredible amount of false positives that have been claimed by the blood test.
We have a serious problem with quality control, consistency. And, let's just talk about it,
economics. A person who hasn't been working since the beginning of March, who might be
afraid that they have COVID, they don't wanna go to an overwhelmed hospital because they
may very well leave with it.
Going to a private source to get tested, the price they're gouging like the same test that
I got for $50 in one place was available in another place for $250. That's a real big
difference. So how is the average American who right now is fighting for unemployment,
of probably finding a landlord or the mortgage companies and the banks.
And have to worry about COVID, only a person who is dripped in privilege would be oblivious
to the realities of what it is to be scared to have COVID right now.
>> If you thought, all right, maybe Donald Trump misspoke, right? Maybe he's not as callous
as you'd expect him to be as a progressive.
Well, this next clip, really solidified his lack of interest, his total apathy when it
comes to the well being of his fellow Americans, because he doesn't even know how many people
have died. Take a look. >> You changed your message this week in terms
of you canceled the Jacksonville Convention, you said wear a mask, you saying that it's
gonna get worst before it gets better.
It's not something you'd like to say, I know you said that. The big question-
>> Not get worse like the original flow, you understand that, but why would not have you
look, Arizona's going down. >> If I can just finish my question.
>> Texas is going down and Florida is going down.
>> The question is, are you going to, even some of your own aides wonder whether you
would stick to that message until Election Day, whether in a week or two you won't say,
right, we've got to reopen again. We can't do this stuff anymore, that you'll get bored
of talking about the virus and go back to that sort of cheerleading.
>> No, I never get bored. I never get bored of talking about this. It's too big a thing
and again- >> So will you stick to that message?
>> It should have been stopped by China. It should have been stopped by China, and it
wasn't. >> And now it's here.
You're the president. >> We have it here. And, I think I'm very
consistent. No, this is a very serious thing. We have 140,000 people at this moment was
a very, very serious situation. >> So he doesn't know, Aida, the exact number.
And by the way, every report that you see tends to round up the number of people who
have died, right, so you don't usually get the exact number.
But you should have a better sense as President of the United States. The number of Americans
who have died as a result of your lack of leadership, but he doesn't care. He doesn't
care. And to be quite honest with you, guys, I'm tired of the repetition. We already know.
We already know he's racist. We already know he doesn't care about our lives. We know that
his mental capacity is questionable to say the least. Okay, I'm being generous here.
And every time someone in the mainstream media interviews him, it's like bravo, bravo. You
have uncovered what an idiot Donald Trump is.
Yeah, we know, we know. So the question like, how many times are we gonna cover this? We
know what he is, we know what he does. We know what he cares about, and the only thing
he cares about is himself. So congratulations, Axios. You did what a million other news organizations
did, reveal what a piece of crap Donald Trump really is.
Now the question is, what happens now? I would love to see some accountability when it comes
to members of Congress who would rather tweet about it, then go and do something about it.
That's my issue. >> Yeah, when he said Florida and Texas, they're
going down, yeah, if those governors keep listening to you, they are gonna go down.
Absolutely gonna go down. The thing is that, we have to really remember that in November,
a lot of people who pretend that they don't like Donald Trump will still vote for him,
right? Because there are a lot of people who support Donald Trump in secret. And at this
point, the only reason that I think that they could possibly be supporting him is because
they're either white nationalists and racists.
Because what else is he offering anybody else in the United States who is not in the top
1%? What is he offering anybody else who is not part of the big pharma or the big bank
industry? What is he offering you other than that he's gonna get rid of the immigrants,
that he's gonna let black people continue to get murdered?
What is he offering the rest of the country that belongs to the group who will directly
benefit from Donald Trump's corruption in office, right? So we have to really mobilize
ourselves and this apathy that has stricken us because this really looks bad for us as
America with our options, but we have to get rid of that.
Because that right there came to destroy and ruin what we know as any semblance of a democracy
does not stand a chance with Donald Trump at office. Trying to push an election back,
taking rule of law and stepping all over it. So at this point, you have to ask yourselves,
is your healthcare as important as your unemployment, this pandemic?
You have to weigh all those options and in hating a black person weighs more than that
for you, then you need to go. Because at this point, all hands need to be on deck to get
that out of the White House because according to history, the art democracies time is up,
right?
So we got to fight for it at all costs. We got to reshape it. We got to redefine it,
because it is they have turned it into trash. That is why someone like this is an office,
right? But he idolizes dictators, he'd be friends them, he does not speak publicly against
them.
And we're under this illusion that he's trying to uphold our constitution and our democracy.
How so, by breaking all the rules that he's not supposed to be breaking? And trying to
postpone our election? That sounds like something that happens in one of those countries that
doesn't happen here.
>> Yeah, and our system of government is flawed. The whole notion of checks and balances falls
apart once you have feckless, representatives, and senators in Congress. And that includes
Republicans who have gone along with everything Trump has done. I'm looking at you, Susan
Collins, you're pathetic. >> Yeah.
>> And you should be voted out of office. But it also includes Democrats, who think
that their Twitter activism should be a good substitute to actually holding Trump accountable.
And doing what it takes through our legal system, through the way our government is
structured to hold him accountable.
But, he definitely does help them raise money, doesn't he?