Trump invoked Floyd’s memory to tout the jobs report, which showed a drop in overall unemployment but also highlighted lingering racial disparities in the US economy.
Facts First: Trump’s comment about “equality” is out of sync with reality — the jobs report says white unemployment dropped, but black unemployment ticked up slightly, and was already at a disproportionately high level.
Facts First: The US coronavirus death toll at the time Trump spoke was over 108,000, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking — and this is not the first time the US has lost so many people, even to a pandemic in particular.
Trump claimed the coronavirus spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan to the world, but not to the rest of China: “How come, at Wuhan, where it started — and they were very badly, were in bad trouble — but it didn’t go to any other parts, it didn’t go to Beijing, it didn’t go to other parts of China.”
Facts First: Though it’s unclear what Trump meant by “barely used,” as of Friday, more than 41,500 members of the National Guard have been deployed across 33 states and DC in response to protests and civil unrest across the nation.
