Trump’s coronavirus messaging is still inadequate and inept

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President Trump has faced a good deal of criticism for the way he’s handled and responded to the coronavirus pandemic, and his recent interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swan shows why.

When asked about the COVID-19 death rate in the United States, Trump disputed the numbers presented by Swan and pulled out several charts that were supposed to prove Swan wrong. Except it wasn’t quite clear what exactly Trump’s charts were tracking, and the president seemed unable to explain them himself. Finally, Swan figured it out:

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