JOn Thursday, March 26, the United States' chief immunologist, Anthony Fauci, made a statement that was both obvious and terrible. "You have to be realistic, and you have to understand that you don't dictate the timeline, it's the virus that does it", he assured. Two days earlier, Donald Trump had expressed the wish for a return to normalcy for Easter on April 12, a spectacularly short deadline on the scale of the wave sweeping across the country.
The billionaire's political good fortune has always rested on his ability to impose his rhythm and his themes. His instinctive science of controversy allowed him to panic when it was necessary to stay in the center of everything.
But what has almost always worked with men today comes up against SARS-CoV-2, indifferent to his moods, emphasizing the character traits of the president who are the least suited to the extraordinary situation he is facing.
Donald Trump ended up putting on clothes from "Wartime president", March 18, Commander-in-Chief against guerrilla warfare led by "The invisible enemy", but he quickly got tired of the warrior posture. Hurrying to celebrate the victory, he wanted to see "The light at the end of the tunnel" less than a week later.
On Saturday, assisting in Virginia with the departure of the hospital ship urgently dispatched to New York Bay, he assured that " this war " will be won "Quickly, with as few deaths as possible". Objective as laudable as it is still elusive.
Inconsistency and inconsistency
The reality is that the epidemic is progressing and the President is stalling. He suggests Easter and then doesn't talk about it any more. He plague Thursday against the needs of states for breathing apparatus, judging that the demands of New York, the current epicenter of the crisis, are unreasonable. Then the next day he tempted the car manufacturer General Motor, accused of dawdling in his conversion into a producer of this instrument, which had become strategic.
He suddenly suggests on Saturday that he could impose a quarantine on the gigantic New York infection center, before reversing a few hours later. Without ever succeeding in imposing the story hoped for by a man of efficient and determined action.
Faced with the enemy devoid of Twitter account, alongside a vice-president, Mike Pence, much more equanimous, Donald Trump oscillates between inconsistency and inconsistency, or attacks by default the democratic governors on the front line, summoned Friday to show off "Grateful" towards the federal state obviously perfect in the ordeal. His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, went there from his advice to those concerned: "When you play golf with your boss, sometimes it's better not to win. "
