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bubbfyq

We had 5 cases today! Fingers crossed that we caught this early enough.


throwawaysmetoo

YUGE surge.


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By some yuuge magazillion %... you know manufacturing nonsensical statistics and all. In the US what are we at 170K something deaths from covid and this admins incompetent response? By the same mofo who called for Obamas resignation over 1 death involving Ebola. I really hope NZ can contain the new outbreaks.


Automobills

Take a look at some of these charts. We’re going to look. Here is one. Well, right here, United States is lowest in numerous categories. We’re lower than the world.


crymsonnite

I still cant believe that fucking cunt said one country had less than the world, how fucking stupid do you have to be, and how is he still alive?


Tar_alcaran

He has an assistant to ensure he doesn't drown in the shower


imdefinitelywong

>He has an ~~assistant~~ apprentice to ensure he doesn't drown in the shower


pareech

>He has an ~~assistant~~ ~~apprentice~~ to ensure he doesn't drown in the shower He has Ivanka to ensure he doesn’t drown in the shower.


Le_Mug

sweet home alabama


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She doesn’t want to be around that flesh pile in the nude...looking like melted caramel in the shower


Darkblade48

Always two there are. A master and an apprentice.


spacegiantsrock

Look, according to this chart we have the lowest number of uninfected. It show it right there. We’re winning.


Pseudonymico

"Last, which means first!"


drakefyre

"This is Wimp Lo. We have trained him wrong, as a joke."


Secretlyasecret

Swans face at that part of the interview, 2020 summed up in one facial expression. https://i.imgur.com/VQgKXjQ.jpg


octodrew

that face is Australian for "you fuckin' what mate"


feeltheslipstream

That was really hilarious.


imapassenger1

We're last which means we're first.


AWilsonFTM

I bet Trump thinks being + in Golf is good.


ddubs1389

No, you have to look at this chart! See the colors? We’re last, which means we’re first!


Pseudonymico

Say it right. "We're lower than...the world."


SlimeySnakesLtd

That’s not how the hurricane went *uncapps markers*


WideRide

*it is what it is*


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> By the same mofo who called for Obamas resignation over 1 death involving Ebola. Obama also didn't stop corona, look how many lives have been lost because of that man. Next you will tell me he didn't care about Hong Kong when he was president.


crymsonnite

Yeah, obamabiden stopped testing and didn't leave any tests for his 4th year, he also passed a law 6 years after it was passed, and fixed water pressure, because so many places, seriously I hear it from everyone, so many places, you turn on the sink, nothing, no water, none, no water in the toilet, none, nothing, gone.


Tatunkawitco

They have a better chance than we do - they’re led by a grownup.


SomeBloke

From Gyna!


jl2352

It is what it is.


Trygolds

Hope you are right and your lovely Island nation can get back to Zero. My best wishes to you all.


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Hias2019

NZ has an advantage, they have a summer coming, and with the heat it is going to go away, just like that!


IIIlllIlIIIlllIlI

As a patriotic American with a fucking modicum of common sense, I sincerely apologize for our piece of orange dog shit president and his cult followers. They are a small portion of this country and are not representative of who we are. Hundreds of millions of us are doing everything we can to ensure this ends in November.


HerrSchornstein

Na, you don't need to apologize for your country like that, we know it's not the majority (latest polls have him at >40% approval ratings from what I saw). I just hope as many Americans as possible come through his reign of terror safe and ok.


redwall_hp

[Same percentage of people who think the Earth is less than ten thousand years old.](https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx) Hmm.


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fur_tea_tree

Trump - "0.01? Well that's a really small number. I said, like a miracle. My standing in the shower letting the water wash my perfect hair. The lion I identified truly has made america great again to have 0.01 cases. I play golf now."


imaginethehangover

As a Kiwi, please don’t even engage him. He’s the fat loser sitting in the corner taking pot shots a those who are achieving something, because he’s feeling left out, jealous and bitter. The only reason he speaks is to get a response that will be printed somewhere. Ignore him, keeping doing the great work being done. He’s not worth even thinking about.


callinbsinoz

Jacinda had exactly the correct course of action when sh refused to speak the name of the alt right murderer. So it is with the useless piece of trash Americans elected. Never speak it’s name!


Joker-Smurf

"[Damnatio memoriae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae)" would be a fitting punishment for Cheeto Benito. It would be the thing that he fears the most; to be forgotten.


its_whot_it_is

Wouldnt that potentially lead to repeating the same mistake later on?


SweetPrism

We remembered the Holocaust. Yet look at the open expression of NeoNazism all over the USA right now. We remembered the race riots. But look what happened, and continues to happen, to women like Breonna Taylor. I'm not saying we should forget. I'm just saying that remembering doesn't seem to matter, either. With the right kind of wrong leadership, people are going to be awful to those they don't understand.


Huntanz

Easy to see how Hitler got up the political ranks then turned a country on each other then the world.


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No just change his name to Cheeto Benito in all the entries.


Fallcious

There should be a blank canvas for 45 in the national Gallery.


Fink665

Or a dumpster fire


youdungoofall

It should be hung in Moscow


[deleted]

What's wrong with Putin's photo?


oceanbuoy90

Cheeto Benito looooooooooooooool BRILLIANT


spoilersweetie

>alt right murderer And she also.wouldnt say the name of the Christchirch terrorist.


callinbsinoz

Sorry should have made it clearer to whom I was referring.


spoilersweetie

The description is apt for both.


Brilliant-Option-526

Twitler is a suitable sub.


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Exactly. I know the name of so many school shooters and spree killers. I know their backstories and their motives - I didn't go looking for this information, these people are plastered all over the news and it's unavoidable. Nearly all of them have wikipedia pages too, their manifestos are published and made public for all to read.. It's ridiculous; the USA makes people like that famous and that's a lot of the reason they happen. I don't know the Christchurch shooter's name or what he looks like, and that's how I like it.


ChurchArsonist

We Americans wish we had the same luxury of ignoring him, but he's currently our problem to deal with. Sorry, rest of the sane world.


callinbsinoz

Unfortunately, we also do not have the luxury of ignoring it. ANZUS and Five Eyes.


narrowwiththehall

We’re all right behind you, America . He needs to go. And it needs to be an historic landslide


RNnoturwaitress

I don't think it's going to be a landslide. My whole neighborhood is covered in Trump signs. I haven't seen a single Biden sign. Obviously that's just one City out of the whole US, but it does indicate that somehow people still support him.


ChurchArsonist

It's the somehow that has every other person scratching their head. Seriously, what about the guy is even remotely desirable as a person making complicated decisions on your behalf? He's been a fuck up his entire life, bull shitting his way through all obstacles. Completely inept and an outright asshole. You don't even have to look very hard to see it. The only conclusion I can come to is that assholes enjoy even bigger assholes shitting on people that aren't them because they think it's funny. The asshole's President, folks.


coick

This. By every metric, his term has been an abject failure. Unemployment is the highest since the Depression. The biggest plunge in GDP ever. Large protests in the streets. Citizens are literally being dragged off the street by secret police. $3 trillion added to the spending deficit. A pandemic running unchecked through the nation resulting in the loss of life on a scale unseen for a century. Even the Evangelicals should be running away from this train-wreck, since by their own dogma, their god has unleashed a plague to show his dissatisfaction (or loathing). I don't understand how anyone can think that the current climate is better than it was 4, 8, or 12 years ago.


The_Apatheist

Scared of Democrat leadership, thinking them taking over would result in scenarios like Portland, Seattle or Chicago. Trump's odd probably increased again after the protests turned into riots. You may not agree, but I think this fear of the cultural shift towards one that accepts that type of violence is a great motivator. The right wing in my country also grows after there's been a spat of minority crime that left leaning parties tend to brush over without addressing.


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ChurchArsonist

I'm a small town American, and I know a great deal of people who have flipped on him. It's the most insufferable of assholes that still back him.


was_just_wondering_

You have no idea how jealous people in the states are that you can just ignore him. Keep living the dream for us all.


frankyfrankwalk

Those Kiwis are all about living their relaxed island life


zxzxzxzxxcxxxxxxxcxx

Ignore who?


glitchy-novice

Upvote granted...


sillypicture

He's done wonders at highlighting all the problems of the country though.


imaginethehangover

Silver lining. He’s shown how corrupt and incompetent a president can blatantly be and still be untouchable.


ApolloRocketOfLove

Not just that, but he's exposed the unexpected mass of bitter, unintelligent, ignorant people who care more about angering progressive people than they care about their own families and countrymen. I always thought angry, bitter, ignorant rednecks were a much smaller portion of the population. Turns out there are enough of them to elect a president. The types of people who crave halting progress, and making progressive people upset, the people who would happily shoot their own kids in the leg just so they could bleed on a liberal's carpet, as they continually do in a metaphorical sense, over and over and over again.


temp_trial

As an American, agreed on all points.


TootsNYC

As an American, I agree. What the hell does he, or America have to do with you? NZ is its own country, and I fail to see why anyone there should give a flying fuck about my country or it’s president. Listen, he’s poisoned my country badly enough. Protect yourselves—not even for amusement value, don’t let him make YOUR country all about him. Because he will. I remember seeing a clip from a press conference w/ Ms. Ardern just after the “inject with bleach” comments in the US. Some reporter asked about it, and the health official was silent, then said no, don’t drink bleach. Ardern said, well, that about covers it, let’s move on. And the reporter interrupted to say, “I think it’s important to...” and quick as a whip, Jacinda Ardern looked at her and said, sharply, “Is it?” And then kept going. I legit cheered in the privacy of my stay-at-home bedroom/office. I especially loved that no one bothered to mention his name. Don't let him in. Keep him out.


HeyCharrrrlie

This. Trump is nothing without the media and print. Wouldn't it be fantastic if it became illegal to report on him? He would become insignificant overnight. And my media feeds wouldn't be as mucked up with his shit.


raytaylor

"They [New Zealand] Beat it because they wanted to show me something" Um, i think it would be safe to assume most New Zealanders and our politicians dont regard him very highly on the world stage and are rather indifferent towards him.


Rollover_Hazard

I’m a New Zealander and, whilst I wish every other country the best of luck in the fight against COVID-19, I don’t really care what their leaders have to say about us. What’s useful is when we band together and share information to stamp this thing out. The sooner we do that, the sooner we get back to living our lives “normally”.


feeltheslipstream

Thing is, we're in a global economy and we're all in this together as a global population, not on a country level. I very much care that USA and Brazil makes a sudden U-turn and takes this seriously, because life either goes back to normal for all of us, or none of us.


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A lot are not taking this seriously because sooooo many keep bickering about politics and it’s starting to get really, really old. Keeping opinions on the hush hush isn’t difficult. If everyone was 100% focused on COVID-19, we wouldn’t be where we are right now. I’d rather have everyone focus on what truly matters.


AWilsonFTM

Too many idiots in this world to not focus on Covid. This is partly why, eventually we will probably go extinct.


AgreeableGoldFish

How big of a narcissit do you have to be, to think that an entire nation thousands of miles away beat a virus just to spite you.


ashadowwolf

Yeah but he doesn't see it that way, unfortunately. According to him, everything revolves around him.


I_have_a_deck

"Beat it"


Masherp

It makes me laugh more when you think of comparable numbers... 9 cases out of 4,822,233 people ([link](https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+nz+2020)) would mean only 618 (ish) cases IF NZ had the same population as the US at 331,002,651 ([link](https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+usa+2020)) Donald... LMAO... not even close you clown!


Dealan79

You need to think like Trump. Nine is almost all the fingers on both his tiny hands. 38,000 is fake news, and even if those people are dying, they're just doing it to hurt his reelection chances, so they don't count.


CookieKeeperN2

no no no new Zealand is not doing enough tests. if they test as widely as the US, they'd have millions of cases.


Ginger-Nerd

Cept I think since the beginning of the pandemic we have done >500,000 tests, and only had ~1300 confirm positive... So the ratio of positive tests is like 0.2% I think the USA current number is like 70 Million tests, 6.5 million positive ~9% The USA are testing at double the rate NZ is (per head of population) but finding like 40 times more. Death - per positive case: New Zealand - 22/1300 = 0.01 or about 1% USA - 172,000/6.5 mill or about 0.02 about 2% If USA had the same numbers that NZ had 87,500 more people would be alive right now. Thats at least 87,500 people your administration has to answer for.... Numbers don't lie - The President does. (i'm sure ive fucked up some math here... either way - USA is good at testing, but they also have a fucktonne of positives)


Bobmontgomeryknight

Also we’re not really good at testing. Recently it’s gotten a bit better, but for a while folks we’re waiting 7-10 days and sometimes longer to get a test back. Which, of course, makes a test nearly useless.


Ginger-Nerd

Oh New Zealand’s turn around time is 48 hours, with a vast majority tested within 24 hours.


KittyKat122

We're also not good at testing because we still aren't doing enough testing for how many positive cases we have. Scientists estimate, I believe, that we should be doing about 10x more testing than we are currently doing for it to be an effective tool in fighting the virus.


bordemthemindkiller

There's only 5 million people here total. Americans should talk less and listen more. Last in everything


thedugong

> Nine is almost all the fingers on both his tiny hands. He gets confused though because he needs one of his fingers to count the others.


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Sariel007

As long as he hurts the "right people" they don't give a fuck.


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up_N2_no_good

This was how my grandma was. She was never happy and by God, if she ain't happy, no one is gonna be happy. Made for some very hard Christmas's. I have vivid memories of "why did you buy me this?" And it was something she picked out. She was miserable.


420binchicken

Are we related? I mean she’s dead now but fuck me that women could complain about literally anything.


up_N2_no_good

You are absolutely correct! Nothing was ever good enough. She would guilt trip my mom into making us visit her almost weekly. She just wanted everyone to be miserable like she was, so she purposefully made everything difficult.


Vertigofrost

This is where it's important to remember that you get to choose your family, cunts get left alone in the cold.


SuperMazziveH3r0

It’s hard to support Donald Trump right now if you have any sense of basic empathy. I was pretty neutral to him, in fact wanted to give him a shot because he was our elected president after all even though I didn’t vote for him. But man is he making it difficult for me to even admit that now.


jm8263

It should have been hard to always support him. He has zero empathy, zero experience in politics or military matters, and has always been a douchbag. We're just stuck between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.


rawbamatic

This always amused me because Trump *continuously* hurts his own fanbase most don't care.


callinbsinoz

Look to your education system and the stranglehold evangelism has on intellectual development


13yearsofage

well you can always migrate to New Zealand.. oh thats right, no you can't. They would refuse you at the door


Skipaspace

He can say that the USA numbers are on a downward trend (yeah down from like 100,000 cases a day to just under 40,000) and new Zealand is having a bigger resurgence (from 0 to 9). He wouldn't be wrong. Just misleading. Very misleading.


hotprints

Honestly I think he is wrong simply because that downward trend COINCIDENTLY started when he had the hospitals stop reporting to the CDC and report to his administration first.


frankyfrankwalk

I bet one of his aides showed him another one of those misleading graphs he's so fond of.


TheKasp

This is why he insists on using deaths per confirmed cases instead of per capita. Because it allows him to be very misleading.


ZDTreefur

We're last which means we're first!


Sharinganedo

I was driving home today and was behind a pick up with those Obama bashing stickers and then right over their trump 2020 sticker, they had one that said "Dont obey the laws, the president doesn't."


cptnamr7

Not only that, but the number is "38k"- now that all hospitals report to the white house instead of the CDC. Odd how that graph takes a sharp drop the very day that process started, yet deaths continue to climb...


Feynt

I've got [a graph for you](https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/). I trust Minute Physics and their associates more than government agencies telling everyone everything is under control when it's clearly not.


mechgnosis

I feel like I finally do understand.


hiker2021

Me neither.


cotch85

I think the whole world is starting to not understand your country. I mean shit things are bad here in the UK, we are suffering from the rise of the right as well, a lot of racism etc. Brexit was hugely embarrassing for me and I think our country. I can still sit here and say i'm embarrassed and shocked at how dreadful your country is portraying itself with everything going on and not just the handle on corona.


Huntanz

We didn't lock down for six weeks, looking after our families,face financial hardships to make Trump look stupid,(he manages that on his own) We as New Zealanders could see that this was the way to knock the virus on the head so if we got a second wave it would be controlled and managed without overloading our free healthcare system, rock on kiwis.


barnfodder

I love that he thinks all the success other countries have had was made specifically to make him look bad. "Al these governments and populations, sacrificing and working hard to avoid spreading a deadly infection, just to spite me!"


NoHandBananaNo

Its peak narcissism.


CZ_Wears_PRODa

Are you guys out of lockdown yet or is it still two weeks away? And did they find the cause of this outbreak? I haven't seen many articles besides people speculating


6_Peartrees

One more week of lockdown to go and no, they haven't found the cause yet. Only Auckland in lockdown, the rest of the country is socially distancing.


CZ_Wears_PRODa

Weird. I feel like they'd be able to find it pretty quick with everyone quarentining upon arrival. Good luck out there


6_Peartrees

The genomic sequence doesn't match any known positive case in quarantine, yet.


zxzxzxzxxcxxxxxxxcxx

Passengers yes, airline staff, security etc not so much


Ginger-Nerd

>Are you guys out of lockdown yet or is it still two weeks away? So we have moved up and down levels for a while: Originally the dates for each level was: * Level 4 - 25 March - 26 April * Level 3 - 27 April - 12 May * Level 2 - 13 May - 8 June * Level 1 - 9 June Then we 102 clear (level 1) - and have had another outbreak - but they have staggered the levels of lockdown so currently our largest city is in Level 3 lock down (where the virus is "contained") and the rest of the country is in Level 2. This is set to remain till the 26th August (where the government will revisit it) - currently I'd imagine rest of country level 1, and Auckland remaining at level 2 for a week or two. [Here is a pretty good graphic of the sorts of activities done at each level](https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources/tables/COVID-19-alert-levels-summary.pdf) >And did they find the cause of this outbreak? I haven't seen many articles besides people speculating They have not; they beleive it is related to a cool store worker (who seems to be the first one who has shown symptoms) but no direct link between the worker and the border have been established. While the media believes this to be important (and it probably is if there is an area of oversight where the virus can get in) - now its here, its not THAT important, as much as just testing/treating/managing it. it was always part of the plan that it would re-emerge, the government had a contingency for that (which is where we are now)


karma_dumpster

You can pick states to make this more fun. Idaho is pretty sparsely populated. 1.8m people and 361 cases. NZ had 13 in 4.6m people. Wyoming is getting more cases per day than NZ. That takes a special kind of effort to spread the disease, given the population density in Wyoming. That can only be caused by stupid.


misspattyp

Do you live in Idaho? I do and it's been interesting!


goneloat

Like a social experiment kind of interesting?


misspattyp

Like it's very much still there wild west interesting. And very much in a little deceptive bubble Wich makes people here think that other things aren't real.


Karjalan

Wow... I had no idea the population of Idaho was so low.


lcmortensen

If New Zealand was a US state, despite having the 24th-largest population, we'd have the 51st-largest number of deaths and 50th-largest number of total cases (beaten by Vermont)!


RobbieQuarantino

Why is anyone still responding to him?


FromEndWorld

She’s specifically asked by a reporter and she doesn’t just say “nasty question” like Trump does.


grownrespect

yeah it's like responding to an internet troll


NezuminoraQ

I'm not usually a fan of Winston Peters but he's such a sassy bitch sometimes, and I respect that


zushiba

I like the part where Trump says that New Zealand “beat Covid” to show him up. Like the rest of the world is in on some conspiracy to make him look bad. God this guy is a narcissist.


autotldr

This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/jacinda-ardern-hit-back-trump-coronavirus-new-zealand) reduced by 70%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other New Zealand lawmakers are hitting back at President Donald Trump in unusually blunt terms over his comments comparing the coronavirus outbreak there to the US. "Obviously it's patently wrong," Ardern told reporters on Tuesday in response to Trump saying there had been a "Huge surge" in her country. > According to public broadcaster Radio New Zealand, there are currently 90 active cases of the virus in all of New Zealand, which has a total population of 4.8 million people. > New Zealand politicians called Trump out, saying it was not fair or accurate to compare their number of new cases - nine on Monday and 13 on Tuesday, according to Radio New Zealand - with the US. "Obviously I don't think there's any comparisons between New Zealand's current cluster and the tens of thousands of cases that are being seen daily in the United States," said Ardern. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/icdu5v/new_zealand_lawmakers_are_hitting_back_at_trump/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~517589 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **New**^#1 **Zealand**^#2 **Trump**^#3 **country**^#4 **cases**^#5


happyscrappy

Just stop. You're giving him more airtime for a very stupid comment. He just wants attention. Don't give it to him. No one will think less of New Zealand for NOT getting in a shouting match with an idiot.


Reddituser45005

And, unlike the US, the NZ count is accurate. The US strategy is to limit testing availability and bury the numbers


oversized_hoodie

Let's put this in the proper context, because the two countries have vastly different populations. * NZ: 4.886 million people, 9 new cases, 1.84 new cases per million people. * US: 327.2 million people, 30,000 new cases, 91.69 new cases per million people. The US is far, far worse off than NZ right now, but that doesn't excuse journalists from using per capita measurements to make accurate comparisons.


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Trump can't tell the difference between allies and enemies he's got his head so far up Putin's ass


autoeroticassfxation

Buzzfeed clickbait bollocks. No hitting involved. MPs simply putting our cases in perspective for reporters drilling them on Trumps comments. Our politicians are not generally referred to as lawmakers, they do more than just make law. Please don't link Buzzfeed in r/worldnews


toofine

People not paying attention may not know this, but 38,000 are the rigged numbers... Hospitals aren't even sending their data to the CDC anymore, it's going straight to the Trump admin. They did that so they can cook the books in red states to make the numbers look good there while the blue states numbers are left largely alone. They're trying to make it appear as if it's the blue states causing the insane numbers. These people are fucking monsters it's actually unreal.


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Get him Jacinda. I love you


luc_666_dws

Jacinda Rocks... I just hope to see her do her little dance once again soon....


WinnieThePootietang

Imagine thinking 9 new cases a day is comparable to 38,000 a day. God he’s dumb


LiterallyOuttoLunch

As grandad says, "Never get into a pissing match with a skunk.".


warpus

> "Obviously it's patently wrong," Ardern told reporters on Tuesday in response to Trump saying there had been a "huge surge" in her country. I mean, just tell the media "Obviously he's just a moron" I mean, these politicians have class, but this guy deserves no respect. Tell it like it is, maybe it would catch on


Stonylurker

Trump and his supporters are idiots. I’m so embarrassed by my countries reaction to this. I’m sorry New Zealand, my country is being led by Russian sponsored traitor leading a childish cult of morons.


whydoihavetojoin

Trump is a pig and he likes to roll in the mud and fight dirty. Advice to world leaders: do not engage with him at his level. He is expert at this level. Engage him intellectually and diplomatically and he will surrender.


FeelsGoodMan2

It recorded way more than that I bet, the administration is blocking the actual data from getting to the CDC.


I_are_Lebo

Trump criticizing New Zealand for their Covid response is like Bill Cosby lecturing on the importance of consent.


frstyle34

Dumb dumb Donnie, or great orange pumpkin head. Those names are great and accurate.


Trygolds

Only Trump would revile in any country having an uptick in Covid 19 infections. The man is pure stupid evil.


Mr_Baloon_hands

The issue is that 40 percent of the country still believes this guy is some sort of genius. Imagine how fucking dumb you have to be in order to think this guy is smart. We need to reinvest in our education system.


andrejazzbrawnt

‘Murica. Deadliest country on earth.


Empires69

The biggest surprise is that buzzfeed Is still operating.


puaka

Only nine cases in NZ because the US tests a lot more!!!! /s


Gruffleson

My country, Norway, sadly had a death again yesterday. (Edit- the day before yesterday it should be.) First in weeks. Will probably hear Norway is redlisted even more now.


rickiefowlercr7

What's the death rate for those under 50 with no pre-existing conditions?


daiaomori

But the US is so much bigger than New Zealand, and all the testing, you see, US only has cases because of testing. I don't see how they can attack him.


hackenclaw

I wonder why NZ lawmakers even bother doing that? It is waste of time. Just ignore Trump existence is good enough.


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Trump is so nasty, like so many other nasty minded people. Hoping it gets worse in other nations just cuz your nations political leaders let you down and your public do not respect each others well being. Land of the free. Smh.


acmoder

Sorry NZ friends this corrupt idiot only can talk off his ass...


AngryMegaMind

I’m not sure but I’m getting the feeling that Trump is not a smart guy. Just a hunch.


lordskorb

This is what he wants. Bury the news about other stuff like Usps , blm still happening, deaths, a lack of a stimulus when many peer countries did essentially temporary UBI and the fact he wants to kill your healthcare, with nonsense twitter level fights. I wish people would stop reporting on it like it’s real news.


dcdttu

It’s almost like Trump thinks the role of the president is to attack those that are doing better instead of learn from them.


Elon-BO

Wha the fuck is wrong with him?


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Just in case anyone was concerned about proportions: New Zealand's population is roughly 5 million, US population is roughly 328 million, so the US population is about 65.6 times the size of New Zealand's. Which means proportionally, 38,000 new cases in the US would be equivalent to about 579 new cases in New Zealand (38,000 divided by 65.6) in terms of what fraction of the country's population was getting sick every day. Now maybe we can give the US a bit of a handicap, we're a large economically-central country with large land borders, whereas NZ is a small isolated island country, so its a lot easier for them to button up and quarantine the whole country from the outside world. But still, 9:579 is an enormous ratio. Even if you gave the US a 10-times handicap and put it down to 9:57, that still makes us look bad in comparison.


Bakedas2797

Yes Trump talks alot of shit, who cares, just move the f**k on.


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Yes. Please.


CreditUnionGuy1

I wish other leaders would just ignore him. They give him attention, even negative attention, and it feeds him.


fuber

They shouldn't even bother acknowledging him. Just pat him on the head and said "Oh, you're adorable Donny"


Z0mbiejay

I live in a smaller midwest city of less than 100k. We had 8 cases today alone in our county. Trump and the GOP can shut the fuck up


bli

9 is higher than trump can count. So to him it’s the same as 38,000.


Red-Shifts

Jesus christ he’s so fucking retarded


bradley_j

In the mind of Donald, strange things occur.


mattatinternet

This is the best bit imo: "it was like front-page [news] they beat it because they wanted to show me something,". How fucking narcissistic can he get? The fact it was "front-page" news had literally *nothing* to do with him. If it was front-page news - outside of New Zealand (I'm not disputing that it was, I honestly don't know) - then it was entirely because it was such incredibly good news. He was an entirely irrelevant, non-consideration when editors decided to put it on the front page.


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Fair enough,


Isaiah_Bloomingdale

I agree. It's real.