Brandishing a Bible in a church across from the White House on Monday after he threatened to send in the military if the protests rocking cities across the United States were not quelled, President Donald Trump declared the US the "greatest country in the world" and that he was going to keep it that way.
The unrest and Mr Trump's response to it are undermining the US' global reputation, already bruised by the country's high Covid-19 death toll and the Trump administration's inadequate response to the outbreak.
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