Today’s White House COVID19 presser has already concluded, but not before New York Magazine White House correspondent Olivia Nuzzi managed to ask Donald Trump this brilliant question:

—@Olivianuzzi asks Trump: "If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died over the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be reelected?" — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 27, 2020

Watch:

.@Olivianuzzi : If a POTUS loses more Americans over six weeks than died in the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be reelected? TRUMP: "If you look at what the original projections were, 2.2 million — we're probably headed to 60,000, 70,000 …we've made a lot of good decisions." pic.twitter.com/J6YzS7jWoz — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 27, 2020

Olivia Nuzzi is a Real Journalist™, through and through.

What a dumbass question about Covid deaths and reelection. — Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) April 27, 2020

Wow. What a terrible question. Does a president “deserve” reelection based on the number of deaths produced by a global pandemic? Our media is broken. — Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) April 27, 2020

Just awful https://t.co/cfNXnwqQkc — American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) April 27, 2020

Olivia Nuzzi: “Do you think a president who is president when lots of people die deserves to be re-elected?” Good Lord. — Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 27, 2020

These briefings are nothing more than journalists trying desperately to get their names trending on twitter. — BT (@back_ttys) April 27, 2020

Do you think a president who is president when lots of people die deserves to be re-elected? https://t.co/IYZs1Gkg9p — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 27, 2020

When the H1N1 swine flu virus killed 12,000, does that president deserve to be re-elected? — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 27, 2020

stelter gonna call for nuzzi to win a pulitzer in his newsletter tonight — Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) April 27, 2020

Don’t be surprised.

Possibly the most ridiculous question asked so far in these coronavirus pressers https://t.co/3tcTtfvPTT — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 27, 2020

To Trump’s credit, he kept his cool:

That was a reasonably good job by Trump not taking the bait. That's one day in a row. — Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) April 27, 2020

One day? Hey, we’ll take it.

Meanwhile, a parting question that, unlike Nuzzi’s, doesn’t suck:

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