FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks beside HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control, CDC Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield, and Associate Director for Laboratory Science and Safety Steve Monroe during a tour of the Center for Disease Control following a COVID-19 coronavirus briefing in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump loves numbers, and the ones he believes illustrate his accomplishments - an unemployment rate at a 50-year-low and stock markets at record highs - have become touchstones in his speeches, rallies and Twitter missives.
The numbers in the coronavirus outbreak in the United States are increasingly not going his way, but that has not stopped him from portraying them largely as a sign of success.
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