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Here’s a neat roundup of some of Trump’s comments in recent weeks, to the tune of “Flight of the Bumblebee”:
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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the US is almost double those in China, where the outbreak began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
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