With cases of the coronavirus on the rise across both the United States and around the world, President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of politicizing the outbreak in an attempt to hurt him politically.

On Saturday, the first coronavirus-related death in the U.S. was reported after the CDC confirmed on Friday that public health authorities in California, Oregon and Washington found four new presumptive cases of coronavirus from an unknown origin. However, the president, who said 22 people in the U.S. have coronavirus during a Saturday press conference, called the coronavirus the Democrats’ “new hoax” on Friday.