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Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed on Monday that Americans are worse off now than they were four years ago. But several major data points prove that just isn’t true.
“[Harris] can’t run on whether or not this country is better off than we were four years ago, because—for a very simple reason—by every measure, we are far worse off,” he said during his prime-time show “Hannity.”
On Oct. 21, 2020, exactly four years before this episode of his show aired, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 213,964 as 1,051 deaths were added to the staggering figure in a single day. By the time Donald Trump left office, more than 396,800 Americans died from the virus.
The Trump administration’s COVID response was completely chaotic from start to finish. He initially dismissed concerns about the virus and argued that it would go away when the temperature increased. Trump went on to fume about masking policies, promote medical quackery, and fight with Democratic leaders as they questioned why medical equipment and protective gear weren’t being distributed effectively (did we mention that he tasked his son-in-law Jared Kushner with coordinating that bumbling, crooked effort?).
Hannity should remember all of it, because during that same period he was among several Fox News figures who promoted ineffective medical treatments for the virus.
