Lies, Damn Lies, and South Korea

We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks.
-- The Manchurian President/25 March 2020

Of course, he's lying. Sort of. In a really sneaky way that the poorly educated, his base, won't understand. The numbers of tests referred to is 331,000 for the third week in March, USofA and 348,582 in South Korea since the outbreak. It happens that both countries reported the first confirmed case on the same day, January, 20.

Birx, who should know better said

"We now have 370,000 tests that have been done. The majority of those -- over 220,000 in the last eight days, which, those of you who have been tracking the South Korea numbers, put us equivalent to what they did in eight weeks that we did in eight days."

As PolitiFact says

Its current tally of 359,000 tests per 327 million people comes out to about 1,084 tests per million. South Korea has run closer to 6,768 tests per million.

So:
A) South Korea started testing right out of the gate
B) The Manchurian President sucked his thumb for 8 weeks while the virus spread like wild fire
C) The USofA is 6 times the population of South Korea, so the equivalent number of tests (which should have been started in early February) is about 1,254,000.

Couple population size differences with area differences, and the USofA needs far more than just 6 times, since we have so many more cities, and far more of high density. South Korea has 22 cities of 500,000 or more. We have 36. If we take 100,000 as threshold for city, we get: South Korea with 47 and the USofA with at least 314, as far as the wiki goes. More tests? In a rats ass, me hearty!
[the wiki]

The poorly will, and have, lap up his lies. We should re-institute just one poll requirement: if your IQ is below 80, you don't vote. Which means The Manchurian President can't vote for himself; nor can his kids. Melania? It's hard to say. She barely speaks English.