200,000 coronavirus fatalities, U.S. hits Trump’s upper limit for doing ‘a very good job’

The United States witnessed another painful milestone on Tuesday as the tally of coronavirus-related fatalities surpassed 200,000. In March, President Trump said that keeping the nation’s death toll between 100,000 and 200,000 — numbers that seemed inconceivable at the time — would signal that his administration had done “a very good job.”