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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Speaking in a state where cases are surging enough to repeatedly set new daily infection , President told a crowd of young Arizona supporters that everything was under control. “Someday it’ll be recognized by history,” he said of his pandemic response while speaking at a campaign-style event at Dream City Church, hosted by the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA.AdvertisementThis is “hopefully the end of the pandemic,” Trump told an audience of about 3,000 college students, most of whom did not wear masks. There’s little to indicate that. Arizona is one of several states that, with Trump’s urging, followed an aggressive reopening schedule. Now it’s averaging about 2,500 new cases daily, a from last Monday. Infections are rising in of the U.S. states, with other alarming surges in Texas and Florida. Hours before Trump made that prediction, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious diseases expert leading the country’s response to COVID-19, warned that “the next couple of weeks are going to be critical” in addressing surges in the worst-hit states. But Trump didn’t acknowledge the surges during his Arizona rally and repeated his claims that ramped-up testing protocols are making the pandemic look worse than it is in the U.S. He then boasted of the low mortality rate, despite the U.S. having the fourth-highest coronavirus among the G-20 nations, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.AdvertisementTrump also returned to the same racist jokes he’s made since the beginning of the pandemic, which has since claimed more than 120,000 lives in the U.S. so far.“COVID-19, I said that’s an odd name,” Trump said after calling the virus “Wuhan,” the name of the city where the virus was first reported, and “kung flu,” sending the young supporters into cheers. This was Trump’s second rally in the last week. On Saturday, his campaign proceeded with one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, despite six of his campaign staffers testing positive for the coronavirus the day before the rally. CORRECTIONS: This story previously misidentified Wuhan as a province in China. It is a city. In addition, the story said the U.S. has the fourth-highest death rate from the coronavirus in the world. In fact, it has the fourth-highest death rate among the G-20 nations.AdvertisementA HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Speaking in a state where cases are surging enough to repeatedly set new daily infection , President told a crowd of young Arizona supporters that everything was under control. “Someday it’ll be recognized by history,” he said of his pandemic response while speaking at a campaign-style event at Dream City Church, hosted by the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA.AdvertisementThis is “hopefully the end of the pandemic,” Trump told an audience of about 3,000 college students, most of whom did not wear...

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