Trump Boasts He Likely Saved ‘Billions’ Of Lives In A Nation With 330 Million People
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Trump Boasts He Likely Saved ‘Billions’ Of Lives In A Nation With 330 Million People
President Donald Trump describes a world in which he probably saved billions of lives.
President Donald Trump busted his boastful exaggeration record Saturday when he claimed he likely saved “billions” of lives with his measures against COVID-19. The entire population of the U.S. is just 330 million.
Trump claimed Monday he saved “tens of thousands” or possibly “hundreds of thousands” of lives because in late January he restricted foreign nationals from entering the country if they had been in China the previous two weeks. The restrictions did not apply to Americans, however, allowing a conduit for the disease to enter the U.S.
Trump made his outlandish billions claim at his press briefing Saturday. Based on some models, the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. was predicted to reach 100,000 to 220,000, he noted. “I really believe it could have been billions of people [who died] had we not done what we did,” he added. “We made a lot of good decisions,” he claimed.
There are 8 billion people in the entire world, so it’s possible Trump was taking credit for saving an extraordinary number of lives around the world for some unknown reason. The U.S. has nearly a third of the 2.3 million COVID-19 cases around the globe — the highest in the world — but only 4.2% of the Earth’s population. The U.S. also has the highest number of deaths — 36,000 — of any country. So whatever measures the nation is taking don’t appear to be particularly successful.
Trump, however, declared Saturday that the U.S. has “produced dramatically better health outcomes than any other country with the possible exception of Germany.”
It’s uncertain what an accurate COVID-19 death toll prediction will prove to be, or how many will ultimately die. But several experts have said that Trump’s months of inaction with a lack of testing, disease contact isolation and early social distancing measures likely cost countless lives in America .
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I think Trump was probably thinking "big picture". I wonder how many lives he saved on other planets with his quick thinkng that prevented the virus from spreading to other galaxies.
Lying POS
This will be a fun game.
remeber when joe Biden, in a debate a couple months ago, said 150 millions Americans(or almost half of Americans) had been killed by gun violence since 2007?
Did you seed an article attacking him for that?
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Why is Trump bragging at all about how many lives he "saved"?
Why doesnt he want to see massive testing? Is he paying for it out of his own pocket?
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[Sean's comment did not contain a personal insult. Yours did.]
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In a roundabout way he is correct. Who is to say that some people coming from China or the EU would not have gone anywhere else but the US? Many people go up to Canada because of Niagra or other close tourist destinations near the border, many people also go into Mexico because of Tijuana or some other close destination. As long as they have the proper documentation, then they can travel wherever they want.
If those folks came here with the virus, then went to other destinations outside the US, then they carried the virus into those countries also, possibly infecting potentially millions of others..
Trump stopped that by stopping them from coming here in the first place.
None of his followers even bother to remember a factual real time video and tweet trail of what Trump did and when he did it, let alone put the pieces together of what he did NOT do. He praised China and has totally two-faced his position alternately praising China and then bashing China. He takes 2 or 3 different positions knowing full well his followers will only pick up on one or two issues a month and take his side regardless of his lies and posturing trying to escape responsibility of his own.