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Thursday, December 31, 2020
The president of the United States looks to 2020
Trump: “No one can follow us”
Shortly before the turn of the year, the president of the United States, Trump, dares to look back. In a video message, he praised the “historic victories” the country has achieved. It does not mention the dramatic proportions of the corona pandemic. The Republican also did not comment on his lost presidential election.
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, praised the achievements of the country under his leadership before the turn of the year. “Truly historic victories” have been achieved and the United States should be remembered for what it has accomplished, Trump said in a broadcast video message. In particular, he praised the rapid production of coronavirus vaccines and thanked scientists, doctors and the military.
Vaccines would end the pandemic once and for all, Trump said. The president went on to say that the country had coped with the corona pandemic “dramatically better” economically than experts had predicted. “No one can keep up with us” in terms of the less severe recession and rapid rebound, Trump said. “Whenever America is challenged, we always rise to the occasion.”
Since the start of the global corona pandemic, nearly 20 million infections with the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen have been detected in the US, and more than 340,000 deaths are related to the virus. Trump did not speak about the dramatic scale of the pandemic, which continues to plague the US economy. Within a week, hundreds of thousands of Americans reapplied for unemployment benefits, and according to the latest figures, about 19.6 million people in the United States receive some form of unemployment benefit. A year earlier it was only around 1.8 million.
Trump also did not mention the presidential election in his message. He came out of it as a loser, but does not recognize the victory of his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Trump sees himself cheated by the victory, so he has not presented evidence. Biden’s inauguration is scheduled for January 20.
