On worldometer, you can sort each column that they present.

[LuckyCharms]

ie...sort highest to lowest, and lowest to highest.

The last 2 columns of data shown for each row of countries are "total tests" and "tests per one million of population" in that country.

Trump is indeed correct when he says that the US has performed more tests than any other country. Of course that number is relatively meaningless unless it is looked at on a per capita basis. To do that at the following link, go to the last column "tests per one million of population" and use the little arrows in the header box for that column to sort that column from highest to lowest.

I did a quick count, and you will see that there are around 40-41 countries that are performing more tests on a per capita basis than the US is.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?

Trump saying that we have performed more tests than any country is him conveying a largely meaningless stat.

[Newest Reality]

1. And...

Trump? Meaningless?

There's a difference?

[napi21]

2. Thanks for the link. I & many others knew what the lier in chief was doing! each time I hear him

say that I yell at the TV--"Well YEAH! It's also many, many times BIGGER than those individual Countries!"

[Igel]

3. Do you think this carries over to "the US has had more deaths than any other country"?

Because the same reasoning applies, and very few dispute the significance of that claim.

[LuckyCharms]

4. Well, since the death stat in the US is the only thing that is known...

with at least decent certainty, the way I look at the number of deaths is that the US has only 4.39% of the world's population, yet 27% of the deaths.

It is difficult to determine the exact cause of this, but it does reinforce a gut feel that something is horribly wrong in the way this disease is being managed in this country.

Number of cases per country is meaningless, because that is driven by the number of tests, which at this point in time, is not a reliable way to project the number of actual cases, since testing has not been thorough.

Also, countries may be over or understating their deaths, etc.

So what I tend to rely on is US deaths as a percentage of world deaths, vs. the US percentage of the world's population. Assuming that the deaths shown for the US are correct, that statistic is very grim.

All that aside, the entire point of my OP was to stress the disingenuous statistic of "total number of tests" that Trump repeats on a daily basis.That number is meaningless without context.