VFriday, June 26, Donald Trump made a decision. He canceled the scheduled weekend at his New Jersey golf club. He had to watch over the security of the country, which he said threatened by " arsonists "," anarchists "," looters "And" the agitators " He was going to stand guard, marmoreal, only pausing to dip his lips in an aluminum quart filled with coffee.
A few hours earlier, he had signed an executive decree to respond to what he said was the urgency of the moment: the epidemic of attacks on statues supposed to embody original American sins, starting with the systemic racism put forward by the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. He had promised "Long prison terms for outlaw acts against our great country!" "Up to ten years for new iconoclasts.
A sense of duty led him to the greens of his Virginia golf club on Saturday morning, presumably to verify that no horde had broken down there in the preceding hours. Then he shared on his Twitter account the wanted opinions of the National Park Service police targeting the drug addicts who had unsuccessfully attacked the equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, opposite the White House, a few days earlier. Hero of the War of 1812 against the British Crown, the first classified populist president of the United States, owner of slaves like his predecessors, distinguished himself by the ethnic cleansing of the Amerindians east of the Mississippi.
The energy that Donald Trump deploys for these wars of the past is matched only by the denial he now reserves for " the invisible enemy "Covid-19, whose contamination has started to rise again since mid-June, yesterday. He was not present on Friday at the first briefing organized in almost two months by the task force dedicated to this fight. He was represented by his vice-president, Mike Pence, who found that everything was not so bad, while the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, observed, " a serious problem "
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This is particularly so since it concerns republican states where the confinement was less severe and shorter than elsewhere for ideological reasons. States like Texas and Florida that Donald Trump cannot afford to lose in November. He founded much of his hopes for a brisk economic recovery, but now they are forced to backtrack.
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