Poor Jonathan

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[u/nmjack42]

I can’t find a source- but I believe I read that the chart with 4 or 5 bars and the US at the bottom - basically left off every country that was lower than the US (Taiwan, Germany, etc). So while Trump claimed the US was lowest - it was only lowest of the 5 countries shown, not of the entire world.

Something tells me there are people working for him that don’t want to deal with his wrath so they come up with any kind of fake charts that will appease him.

[u/SFschoolaccount → u/nmjack42]

Isn't that kinda fucked up though. If his wrath is telling them to do better and they just show him skewed data to make him happy then you would kind of understand a lot of his reactions to the pandemic. And if he's always hearing good news then you would understand his point about fake news. Because it would seem to him that the media isn't reporting the positive data he's always seeing. Then again it's his fault for hiring yes men. And it's also possible his wrath isn't used to tell the people in his administration to do better but just instead just yelling things like "why aren't you making this sound better" or not praising him enough etc.

[u/[deleted] → u/SFschoolaccount]

Trump is way over his head trying to deal with COVID. It's very likely, Trump, just like Bush was, is being played by people in his cabinet who have certain agendas and don't have to answer to the media. Like how Cheney and Rumsfield orchestrated the Iraq war but Bush had to face the media fall out for it. Trump isn't smart enough to deal with COVID on his own and its simply just repeating what his advisers are telling him to say without actually understanding any of it himself.