Trump news – live: President boasts of 'high marks' despite spiralling coronavirus death toll, as Pence and Harris both take campaign to swing state
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Donald Trump once more boasted about the United States’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, claiming the country was “starting to get VERY high marks” when compared to other nations.
The US president, who added that a coronavirus vaccine was “coming, and fast”, made those remarks despite rises in the number of infections across 22 US states, according to Reuters analysis., and the wolrd’s largest death toll.
Elsewhere on Monday, vice president Mike Pence and his would-be successor, Kamala Harris, are making separate visits to Wisconsin, a crucial swing state that was largely neglected by the 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, as the 2020 campaign enters the homestretch.
Asked about The Atlantic piece and his comments about John McCain, Trump says he was the opposite of McCain and didn’t want endless wars, but approved his funeral plans.
Calls story a hoax.
Ends speech with a “Happy Labor Day” and goes to questions
China took advantage of stupid people he says, before calling Biden a stupid person.
Argues that US should be treated as a developing nation by the WTO.
Claims US never used to win any dispute at the WTO. The US won almost all of its cases.
Calls NAFTA and China’s entry into the WTO as the most disastrous trade deals in history. Trump’s USMCA is the same as NAFTA with a few additions.
Returns to his much repeated complaint about NATO member countries being “delinquent” on the money they should be contributing.
On China, the president drifts from how much US farm produce they buy, to their military capability to an argument for decoupling from China, via a reminder about the nuclear deterrent.
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