President Donald Trump told supporters in Minnesota on Monday that New Zealand's nine new cases was 'terrible' on the same day that the U.S. added nearly 42,000 new cases.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he leaves the White House in Washington, D.C. for a trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin on August 17, 2020.New Zealand's new COVID-19 outbreak"terrible" on Monday, insisting that the country was struggling on a day that saw nine new cases compared to nearly 42,000 new U.S. cases.
"Places that they were using to hold up, they're having a big surge, and I don't want that, I don't want that, but they were holding up names of countries," Trump."And now they're saying 'whoops!' In fact, even New Zealand, do you see what's going on in New Zealand? They beat it, they beat it, it was like front page news because they wanted to show me something. The problem is big surge in New Zealand.
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