Trump touts low COVID-19 death rate on day when FL, TX, and CA report record deaths: 'Deaths are way down'

In a wide-ranging interview on Hannity Thursday night, President Trump claimed that COVID-19 related deaths are decreasing even as California, Texas, and Florida all set single-day records for deaths.

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DONALD TRUMP: We have a mortality rate-- think of this-- that's 10-fold better than any other. What we're doing is incredible. If you look, you've heard the numbers. 10-fold. We have fewer people dying.

- In a wide-ranging interview on "Hannity" Thursday night, President Trump claimed that COVID-19-related deaths are decreasing even as California, Texas, and Florida all set single-day records for deaths. Trump also lamented the media's focus on new cases as positivity rates increase across the country.

DONALD TRUMP: A lot of very good things have happened, a lot of really good things. They're doing a great job. But the testing is just showing up all these cases. And if you turn the news on, you'll see it's always the word cases. They don't talk about deaths because deaths are way down. They talk about cases, all the time cases.

- And the US death toll from coronavirus recently surpassed 130,000. And on our current course, tens of thousands more are projected to die over the coming months. Trump alleges most people haven't nothing to worry about.

DONALD TRUMP: Those cases get better. They-- in most-- most cases, in almost, I mean, literally, in most cases, they automatically cure. They automatically get better.