.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?” pic.twitter.com/MStySfkV39

— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020

„Jonathan Swan’s utterly polite and unrelenting scepticism really highlights the fact that the default mode of US network interviewers is high deference. Even when they are contesting Trump’s claims, they treat him as though he’s a grand eminence. Swan is much more ‚headmaster who knows you broke into the sports cupboard because he can see the deflating football behind your back‘.“

Helen Lewis, The Bluestocking Newsletter