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President Donald Trump decided to print his name on the check that goes to millions of Americans under the crisis measures. At his press conference on Monday, he forced journalists to watch a video titled “The media downplayed the risk from the start.” And on Tuesday, he pointed to a new culprit in the Covid-19 pandemic: the World Health Organization (WHO).
Everything indicates that the President of the United States is trying to turn the crown crisis into a campaign tool for the elections of November 3. In the first weeks of the outbreak, Trump stayed away from the issue in emails to his followers. This month, the emails are no longer just about signed limits, but also about how the President is addressing the crisis. April 11: “Do you remember January, when Trump closed the borders to China?” On April 13, “Call China to Account.”
The most recent disclosure in this regard occurred on Tuesday. The Washington Post. The newspaper wrote that Trump had urged his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to sign the checks Americans receive to alleviate the worst financial distress. However, the support measure was taken by Congress, which deals with the federal budget, the President only approved it. When it turned out that Trump is not allowed to sign the check from the tax authorities, it was decided that Trump’s name would appear on the check memorandum, suggesting that the Americans owe him this money.
“Good feeling”
Trump has been criticized for his inconsistent message about the health risks of the new corona virus. Criticized for his premature suggestion that the United States may reopen for Easter. Criticized for his “good feelings”, praise for the drug hydroxychloroquine as “game changerIn this pandemic. He has seen the polls, which showed unprecedented positive figures for him from mid-March to early April, return to reliable values a week ago: More than half of Americans disapprove of his performance, less than 45 percent are satisfied.
Pressed into the corner, Trump does what he has always done: strike back. The video he showed on Monday was a good example. Criticism of the president is thrown back on his opponents.
After Democrats, after critical governors, after the press, after China, WHO is now the new enemy of the American government. Tuesday’s daily press conference was almost nothing more. Trump accused the UN organization of “mismanagement and cover-up” of the epidemic.
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“The outbreak could have stopped at the source,” said the president. WHO’s action, in his opinion, has resulted in a “twenty-fold increase” in the number of infections worldwide, “and perhaps more.”
White House press conferences have spanned hour-long sessions in which the President congratulates himself and his team on “the great job” they are doing and invariably points to the decision to close the borders for the majority from China travelers. “That saved thousands of lives,” said the president.
In turn, he criticizes and praises various governors. When asked about the federal government’s responsibility to screen potential infected patients, he says it rests with states and governors. If told that under the United States Constitution, the power to declare and end the state of emergency does not rest with the federal government but with the states, Trump says he has “full authority” in this area. Party member Liz Cheney, a Wyoming MEP, helpfully tweeted the text of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: All powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are vested in states and residents.
“Outrageous”
Press conferences, aimed at explaining information about the epidemic to the population, are now largely devoted to topics that have nothing to do with it. Medical experts like Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx sometimes don’t have a chance to speak and run out of time. Journalists play a stimulating role in this. They ask questions about unemployment figures, about the firing of an aircraft carrier captain, about the oil crisis. And in his responses, the President expands on reflections on the pre-epidemic economy, when records repeatedly broke. The journalist who dares to ask about the nearly seventeen million new unemployed during daily press conferences is nervous. “Scandalous as you say it.”
The New York TimesRepublican politicians recently investigated. They seemed uncomfortable at Trump press conferences. “It’s getting out of the way,” said West Virginia Senator Shelly Moore Capito. “You should ask medical experts to tell you which way it is going.” Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, who has become one of Trump’s strongest allies in recent years, recently warned him, “Your enemy is no longer Joe Biden, it is this virus.” It seems that the president of that message only heard the word “enemy”.
