Trump claims US coronavirus deaths lower than other nations

In an extraordinary clip from Axios’ Jonathan Swan’s interview with Donald Trump, the president rifled through a sheaf of graphs to claim that the US has lower numbers of coronavirus than other nations. The pair debated Trump’s point that America has a lower number of deaths as a percentage of coronavirus cases, but when Swan pointed instead to the number of US Covid-19 deaths as a population percentage, Trump said: ’You can’t do that’ The full interview will be shown on HBO on 4 August Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Trump criticises lockdowns and falsely claims US ‘doing very well’ ► Support the Guardian ► Today in Focus podcast ► The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► Owen Jones talks ► Guardian Football ►