"New Zealand, New Zealand, it's over for New Zealand, everything's gone, it's all over - they're beautiful," said Trump, referencing the global acclaim New Zealand received for its response. On the day New Zealandrecorded five new cases, the US recorded 46,500 according to the Centre for Disease Control. "They're having a lot of outbreaks, but they'll be able to put them out, and we'll be able put them out." "They beat it, they beat, it was like front page [news], they beat it because they wanted to show me something." "The problem is [there is a] big surge in New Zealand, you know it's terrible - we don't want that.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 20, 2020 23:03 UTC