Donald Trump’s denial about the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic is placing the nation he was elected to lead in dire peril.

He said once again that we’re defeating the pandemic. We aren’t.

He said on “Fox News Sunday” that we’re putting out “embers,” only to be told by moderator Chris Wallace that it’s a “forest fire.”

Trump continues to demand that schools open up per normal this fall, while disputing the evidence of continued infection in such a circumstance; moreover, he continues to threaten to withhold money to school districts that refuse to follow his edict.

This guy is out of control. He is unhinged. Trump is the most dangerous American politician I have witnessed in, oh, just about my entire life.

I’m glad, though, that Fox News gave him the forum today … and that Chris Wallace challenged Trump directly on the many misstatements and outright lies he told about the self-imagined “progress” we are making against the pandemic.

If the nation’s effort was as successful as Trump contends, then someone needs to explain why the European Union has banned travel from this country to the EU.