As President Trump was preparing to wrap up Monday's coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden, Nuzzi blamed him for the deaths of thousands of Americans, asking him if he "deserves" to be reelected and invoking the Vietnam War in the process.
Nuzzi asked, "If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam war does he deserve to be reelected?"
Surprisingly, the president kept his cool at this absurd and blatantly partisan question, calmly responding, "So, yeah, we have lost a lot of people but if you look at what original projections were 2.2 million we are probably heading to 60,000, 70,000 - it's far too many. One person is too many for this and I think we made a lot of really good decisions."
He continued, "I think that Mike Pence and the task force have done a fantastic job. I think that everybody working on the ventilators you see what we have done there, have done unbelievable. The press doesn't talk about ventilators anymore. They just don't want to talk about them and that's okay but they reason they don't want to talk - that was the subject that nobody would get off of. They don't want to talk about them."
He then concluded, "We are in the same position on testing. We are lapping the world on testing and the world is coming to us as I said they are coming to us saying what are you doing, how do you do it and we are helping them. So, no, I think we have done a great job and one person I will say this, one person is too many."