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The news that more than two lakh people have died from this virus is also a huge shock to the United States. And the news comes at a time when the next presidential election is 33 days away.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows attended the briefing on Friday morning Washington local time to try to reassure the nation.
He says that President Trump is a man full of life. However, the ‘mild’ symptoms of Kovid-19 have started to appear in him since the morning.
“Most importantly, our president is committed to working for the nation even in this situation. He is doing his job and he will stay at work. I hope he recovers very soon, very soon.”
President Trump has rarely been seen wearing a mask; He kept joking around when others wore masks.
President Trump has been criticized from the start for the way the United States government has tried to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. The United States now has the highest number of victims and deaths in the world.
According to CNN, President Trump tweeted early Friday that he and his wife, Melania, had been infected, dramatically changing the course of events. The news came after months of huge losses in the management of Covid-19 due to the ‘final mismanagement of the government’. As commander-in-chief of the state, Trump has ‘shortened’ the coronavirus threat day after day. At a time when the country is already in crisis, the news of its contagion is creating a ‘new crisis risk’ led by the United States.
The risk of coronavirus infection is higher in adults. Trump, 64, is in that age group. And Melania is 50 years old.
In announcing the start of the quarantine between the two, Trump wrote in a confident tone in his tweet: “We will get through it together.”
Melania also tweeted: “Her symptoms are very mild, they are fine.”
But CNN writes that this optimistic tone from the first couple in the state cannot quell the “fear of increasing instability” as the United States now has to fight a great crisis of the generation. The country’s politics have hit a bad time in the memory period. The stock market has also fallen on the news.
Citing people inside the White House, CNN wrote, there is now panic working there too. Efforts are being made to find out which of the senior officials close to the president were affected.
Thus, every day in the White House, all advisers and those who come in contact with President Trump are tested for coronavirus.
Covid-19 has previously been captured by various White House officials. Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary was also infected with the coronavirus last May and then recovered.
With the Nov.3 vote looming, Trump has been touring the country regularly in recent weeks. Ignoring the warnings of public health experts, he attended several Republican Party election rallies in the crowd of thousands.
Trump traveled to Ohio last Tuesday to participate in a televised debate with Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Hope Hicks, a close adviser, was with him on Air Force One.
The next day, Trump flew to Minnesota by helicopter to attend an election rally on Wednesday. Hicks was with him too.
The next day, the White House learned that Hicks had been infected with the coronavirus. But it has been alleged that the news was kept secret for some time.
President Trump ordered a coronavirus test after a close adviser, Hope Hicks, was diagnosed with the infection.
On Thursday night, Trump himself tweeted that Hicks had been infected. He also said that he and Melania had been tested for the coronavirus.
A few hours later, Trump announced that the test results were ‘positive’.
Trump’s doctor, Shawn Conley, later said in a statement that both the president and the first lady were fine. They plan to stay at their home in the White House until they recover.
“I hope that in the recovery process, the president can fulfill his functions without interruption. I will keep you informed on the latest situation.”
The US media is now questioning why Trump went to New Jersey on Thursday to attend events and other events, including fundraising for the elections, after learning of the Hicks infection.
Meadows admitted Friday that Hicks’ coronavirus test came back positive just before he went on a tour of New Jersey. That is why some people were excluded from the tour.
Hundreds of supporters in New Jersey will contact President Trump at the event, but CNN reports that the question is why the White House allowed the event to continue.
Citing a few people who attended the event in New Jersey, CNN wrote that President Trump seemed a bit upset and his voice was a bit hoarse. But they thought he might be tired of the long campaign.
Trump attended a panel discussion in New Jersey, where no one had a face mask despite the distance to sit. Trump then delivered a speech while standing behind the podium in an open space outside. Most of them didn’t have masks either.
Where doctors place greater importance on the use of masks to prevent infections, President Trump himself has been reluctant to wear masks and has continued to criticize even those who wear masks.
He also said at a banquet Thursday that he believes the epidemic will end soon.
Now that Trump himself has come under attack, it’s time to take a look at his Cabinet members and the people around him.
His opponent, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, was on the same stage with Trump in the Ohio election debate. After Trump’s test results came back positive, many people stumbled upon Google to search for Biden.
However, tests on Friday revealed that Biden was not infected. Vice President Mike Pence, who has been in close contact with Trump, and his wife’s coronavirus test results were also ‘negative’.
The coronavirus test of the president’s daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump-Melania’s 14-year-old son Baron also showed no signs of infection, the White House said.
However, Meadows acknowledged that it is possible that many more in the White House have already been infected.
Uncertainty and fear also operate among the White House staff who live in that complex. One official told CNN they had been told to use the phone as much as possible to communicate with other people within the White House to avoid risky contacts.
President Trump was scheduled to attend an election rally in Orlando on Friday. But when his coronavirus caught, the show was canceled.
President Trump was scheduled to attend a fundraising event in Washington on Friday and an election rally in Florida. These two events have been canceled.
Only one formality took place at noon, where he was supposed to be on a conference call to help seniors at risk for Covid-19.
CNN writes that this change to the president’s Friday schedule tells how much America’s election campaign will change in the coming days.
Trump, who is isolated, will not be able to participate in the campaign as planned for the next few days.
There is also uncertainty about what will happen to the second television debate before the October 15 presidential election in Miami, Florida.
As a result, Trump won’t have much of a chance to divert voters’ attention from the epidemic and the government’s inability to deal with it, which CNN believes will affect his vote as well.
Trump has consistently downplayed the crisis, even after the two allies, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom and Zaire Bolsonaro of Brazil, became infected with the coronavirus. He also joked about wearing a Biden mask during last Tuesday’s election debate.
Since the beginning of spring, President Trump has been pushing the governors of several states to get the economy back on track. And as of late he has been pushing for the school to reopen.
Trump hoped he could stay away from the virus if everyone inside the White House got tested regularly. From that belief, he himself was not in favor of wearing a mask.
Joe Biden was on the same stage with Donald Trump during Tuesday’s election debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
This is the first time in decades that a US president has had such a serious illness, CNN reported. President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, but that did not endanger his life.
In late March, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson contracted the coronavirus. He had to be transferred to the ICU on April 6 after falling seriously ill. Previously, he handed over some of the responsibilities of running the government to Foreign Minister Dominic Raab.
Now the discussion has begun about what could happen if Trump’s illness worsens.
If Trump is unable to lead the government due to illness, the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution will allow him to temporarily hand over power to Vice President Mike Pence and return to work once he returns to work.
Former President George W. Bush has twice temporarily relinquished responsibility for medical needs. Additionally, Ronald Reagan was once given a temporary job as vice president due to surgery.
If there is an urgent need for Trump to do so, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution would allow the vice president and cabinet to take over.
Even if both the president and vice president die for whatever reason or become unable to run the state together, the constitution also says what to do.
Ilya Samin, a law professor at George Mason University, said: “The constitution clearly states who will have power in such a situation. In that case, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will take over.”
If that’s the case, and if Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, takes power, analysts warn that “whatever the law says, chaos is certain.”
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