President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he was absolutely sincere about his intent to reduce covid-19 testing, an incoherent move given the sharp increase in covid-19 cases in several states. Trump first shared his plan during his recent flop of a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving the White House scrambling to insist that the comment was simply said in jest.\n
“I don’t kid,” Trump said.
He continued: “We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the best of them.”But while boasting of the United States’ high test numbers, Trump lamented that an increase of testing leads to an increase of confirmed cases, and an increase of confirmed cases—well—isn’t a good look!
“By having more tests, we find more cases. We did 25 plus. 25 million tests. Think of that, 25 million. If you look at other countries—they did one million, two million, three million, big countres—we did 25 million. Way more, by double, triple, quadruple, any other county. Therefore, we test, we’re going to have more cases. By having more cases, it sounds bad. But, actually, what it is is we’re finding people.
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