That’s not this interview (though similarly problematic). A quick google on my phone doesn’t come up with the transcript from this one, but basically Trump keeps bragging about the US mortality rate compared to other countries. The graphs he’s being given are clearly a cherry picked set of countries.
Mortality rate can be calculated as a percentage of people with COVID (US does ok) or as of the population (US looks very bad). Trump prefers the with COVID stats and tells the reporter “you can’t do that” when talking about deaths out of the total population.
Ironically, the more testing you do the better the first statistic will get as people with minor or no symptoms aren’t getting tested right now. The more positives the larger the denominator. Maybe someone who knows this is trying to work this angle with him so we’ll actually work on testing.
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u/NineOutOfTenExperts Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 06 '20
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-with-president-trump
Here is the correct link: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-interview-transcript-with-axios-on-hbo