Trump?s Axios interview on HBO was a disaster

But the Swan interview, which came out just two weeks after Trump’s similarly disastrous performance on Chris Wallace’s show, highlighted the degree to which Trump is unable to defend his record in the face of even mildly challenging questions.Perhaps the most terrifying part of the interview came early on when Swan peppered Trump with a string of questions about why he isn’t doing more to fight the coronavirus and why the virus has hit the US so much harder than other comparable countries.Asked how he can say the pandemic is under control when roughly 1,000 Americans are dying from Covid-19 each day, Trump said, remarkably, that “it is what it is.”“They are dying. You know that?” Trump said at one point.“Who says that?” Swan responded. I'd wish a lot of people well.” pic.twitter.com/1MRxyqzCLk“I think that actually, antifa should be investigated, not the law enforcement,” Trump said. But perhaps Trump’s most tone-deaf remarks were reserved for the end when Swan asked him a string of questions about racial inequalities and his reaction to the death of John Lewis.Presented with a statistic that succinctly illustrates systemic racism in the country — “Why do you think Black men are two and half times more likely to be killed by police than white men?” Swan asked — Trump dodged with an equivalency.“I do know this: that police have killed many white people also,” he said.After Trump claimed he’s done “more for the Black community than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, whether you like it or not,” Swan asked him: “You believe you did more than Lyndon Johnson, who passed the Civil Rights Act?”“How has it worked out?” Trump responded. He chose not to come to my inauguration,” Trump said.“Taking your relationship with him out of it, do you find his story impressive, what he’s done for this country?” Swan followed up.“He was a person that devoted a lot of energy and a lot of heart to civil rights.