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So now the American president has also contracted the virus. During the election campaign he did everything in his power to ignore the crown pandemic. That is why his back is to the wall in the final phase of the electoral campaign.
United States Correspondent Renzo Ruf
So now reality has caught up with it. Although Donald Trump made the bold claim Thursday that the end of the corona pandemic “is in sight,” the virus has now infected the US president and his wife.
The 74-year-old does not appear to have had severe Covid-19 so far; At least on Thursday, during his last television appearance for the time being, he sounded quite cheerful. Hopefully it will continue to do so. No one can have an interest in the fact that the president of the world’s largest economy, among all things, falls seriously ill during the hot phase of the election campaign and is absent for a long time.
50,000 new infections – per day
However, the Trump infection once again highlights the president’s omissions in dealing with the pandemic. Although nearly 50,000 people in the United States are still infected with the virus every day, the president has given the impression in recent days that the health crisis is over.
The US president showed some appearances with a mask, mostly rejected. Here during a factory visit.
Instead, he talked about the economy or wasted time insulting his political opponents (real and imagined). Symptomatic of this: When Trump and Democrat Joe Biden met Tuesday for the first televised debate, which took place on a hospital campus, the president’s entourage did not follow instructions and removed their masks as soon as they sat down. The Democrats in the audience, however, stayed put.
Trump also liked to play with fire as a businessman
This strategy may have received the approval of the president’s fanatical supporters, also because in a large country like the United States there are areas that have not been paralyzed by the virus. And, of course, it is true that not every gathering of people has to be a “super spreader,” as claimed after almost every election campaign event in Trump.
But every gathering of thousands of people carries a risk. That the president, unlike Biden, was willing to take this risk in the election campaign was not surprising. Businessman Trump’s career shows that he played with fire over and over again, but never burned his skin.
Does Trump still have room for maneuver?
However, the plan to play down the threat posed by the virus in public was incredibly shortsighted. Because now that Trump has been infected, he is left empty-handed. Obviously, you can no longer ignore the pandemic. But it doesn’t have room for a U-turn.
A public admission that he had failed in the greatest crisis America has faced since the end of World War II would be the end of Trump’s election campaign; It’s hard to imagine that his supporters, who claim that masks are for the weak, continued to be a fan of the president.
Donald and Melania Trump corona-positive: this is how the United States reacts 32 days before the elections
