Topline President Donald Trump said on Monday that he and his administration have done a “phenomenal job” and deserve an “A+” for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, despite the fact that nearly 200,000 Americans have died from the virus, the most deaths of any country. Donald Trump wraps up his speech at a campaign rally at Fayetteville Regional Airport, Saturday, … [+] Sept. 19, 2020, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Evan Vucci/ASSOCIATED PRESS Key Facts “We’ve done a phenomenal job. Not just a good job, a phenomenal job,” Trump said in an interview on Fox and Friends on Monday morning. The president stated that the only flaw in his administration’s approach to the deadly virus has been regarding public messaging. “Other than public relations, but that’s because I have fake news. On public relations, I give myself a D,” Trump said, and then declared, “On the job itself, we take an A-plus.” As of Monday morning, more than 6,825,700 people in the U.S. have been infected with the coronavirus, and 199,531 have died, according to the Johns Hopkins database. In mid-March, Trump also gave himself a perfect score when evaluating his administration’s response to Covid-19. When reporters at a White House briefing on March 16 asked how he would rate his response to the pandemic on a scale of one to ten, Trump replied, “I’d rate it a ten.” Big Number: 20%: The United States accounts for les… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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