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Now, the president of the United States has drawn a parallel between his appeasement in the pandemic and the behavior of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II: “When Hitler bombed London, Churchill, a great leader, often rose to a roof in London and talking, “Trump said Thursday night (local time) at an election rally in Freeland, Michigan.
The incumbent president continued: “And he always spoke calmly. He said we have to show calmness. No, we did well and did a job like no one else.”
Trump came under massive criticism nearly two months before the U.S. election for saying in interviews with Woodward in March that he had deliberately downplayed the danger posed by the virus. The US media published passages and corresponding recordings on Wednesday. Trump later said in his defense that he did not want to panic.
On Thursday he referred to the London government’s advice to the British in World War II: “Keep calm and carry on” (more or less: keep calm and carry on). “That ‘s what I did.”
Churchill is said to have observed the Nazi bombings in London from a rooftop, but did not deliver a speech. In June 1945, after the end of the war, he spoke during the election campaign in a canopy, as captured in the photos.
Attack on Woodward – and journalist at press conference
At a press conference at the White House, Trump also denied lying to Americans about the danger posed by the virus. When asked by a journalist, he called it “a shame.” “He wasn’t lying,” Trump said. “I said we have to stay calm, we must not panic.”
His challenger in the White House race, Democrat Joe Biden, accused the Republican on Wednesday of lying to the American people and of being responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of American citizens.
Trump argued that if Woodward had thought his statements problematic, he should have made them public immediately rather than waiting months. In Freeland, he called Pulitzer Prize winner Woodward a “maniac” in front of cheering fans.
Once again, he praised his government’s crisis management, which most Americans have been judging negatively in polls for months. Trump said: “I think we probably did the best job of any country on the pandemic, certainly any major country in the world.”
Optimistic image of the situation in the country: the reality is different
At the White House, he presented the situation in the United States in the pandemic as better than in Europe. “If you look at the European Union right now, they have outbreaks like I’ve never seen them before and, frankly, their numbers are at much worse levels than the numbers here,” he said. He cited Italy, France and Spain as examples. Although the number of infections has risen again there, they are still at a high level in the US.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, more than 191,000 people in the United States have died after being infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
