Watch An Aussie Journo Let Trump Humiliate Himself With Coronavirus Stats In Just 3 Minutes

US President Donald Trump has given a rare, one-on-one interview about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic (spoiler: he’s doing a godawful job) and there’s one particular moment where he gets caught so far off-guard by statistics that he unravels into an incoherent mess on camera.

When Australia-born Axios National Political Correspondent Jonathan Swan tried to bring up the grim fact that, according to hard stats, the United States is suffering quite seriously from the coronavirus pandemic and not doing nearly enough to fix the situation, Trump tried to deflect as usual.

“We test more… take a look… the top one, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing,” Trump said, taking about COVID-19 testing rates.

However unlike many of Trump’s previous interactions with journos, Swan didn’t let him get away with it and instead hit back.

“If hospital rates were going down and deaths were going down, I’d say ‘terrific’, you’d deserve to be praised for testing, but they’re all going up!” Swan replied.

“If you watch the news or read the papers, they usually talk about ‘new cases, new cases, new cases’,” Trump said.

To this, an astonished Swan replied: “I’m talking about death.”

The whole country – and the rest of the world (hi!) – seem to have watched on in collective astonishment.

https://twitter.com/Diet_Hellboy/status/1290518262279593984

It’s fascinating and unnerving to see Trump when he’s not able to coast on his charisma alone. This guy is overseeing the lives of 330 million people during a pandemic and his pride is getting in the way of interpreting simple graphs.

The death toll in the US stands at over 158,000 cases. It’s not rocket science to admit the situation is dire. You can catch the full interview here.

Somebody… anybody… Barron (?) please come and collect your lost and confused grandfather dad.

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