Melbourne, Australia, where cases have been up recently

Trump Revives Some Very Old Messaging On COVID-19

In the beginning, the only hurdle Trump gave himself seemed to be showing he was doing better with the disease than the rest of the world

Update: Underscoring our point is this recent clip from Trump’s interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan, where Trump even now tries so hard to dig up COVID-19 numbers that make him look favorable compared to the rest of the world.

That concept quickly became ludicrous as U.S. infections soared. But it’s been creeping back into the President’s conversation in recent days, as some places overseas fight new flares of infection.

Leading the President to do things like point to a new spike in cases in part of Australia as evidence he isn’t doing too bad:

And Tweet this:

And Retweet this:

So let’s just look at Australia for a second: the state of Victoria, which contains the city of…