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Stephen Colbert rips into Jared Kushner's attempt to spin 1 million coronavirus cases as 'a great story'

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Description: "More people dying under this administration in 100 days than died in 20 years of the Vietnam War — that's a story that needs to be told."

"More people dying under this administration in 100 days than died in 20 years of the Vietnam War — that's a story that needs to be told."

Caitlin Welsh

on April 30, 2020

Stephen Colbert rips into Jared Kushner's attempt to spin 1 million coronavirus cases as 'a great story'

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The U.S. recorded its millionth case of coronavirus on Tuesday, yet the Trump administration is trying to claim that as a victory. Speaking to Fox & Friends that same day, the president's son-in-law and waxen face of the White House's disastrous coronavirus response Jared Kushner claimed the current numbers are actually a "great story." Said numbers include 60,000 recorded deaths in the U.S. from the virus.

"Yes, it's a great story," agreed Stephen Colbert in his monologue on Tuesday evening, mirroring Kushner's wooden-puppet-boy inflection.

"More people dying under this administration in 100 days than died in 20 years of the Vietnam War — that's a story that needs to be told. Perhaps in the blockbuster movie Preventable Apocalypse Now."

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.