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Six days after his release from Walter-Reed military hospital, where he had been taken following a positive Covid-19 test, Donald Trump once again blurred the lines between the president and the candidate, Saturday 10 October. He organized a campaign meeting at the White House presented as falling within his activities as a tenant of the Oval office. The president spoke for eighteen minutes, a duration much shorter than that of his sometimes long campaign speeches of two hours.
He spoke from the south balcony of the presidential mansion in front of about 500 people gathered on the lawn without following the recommendations of physical distancing of the federal authorities. His first public address, apart from long appearances on Fox News and the radio program of the ultra-conservative Rush Limbaugh, was an opportunity for him to once again downplay the seriousness of the epidemic.
“I want you to know that our nation will beat this terrible Chinese virus, as we call it”, he said. “We make powerful drugs and therapies, and we heal the sick, and we will heal. And the vaccine is coming out very, very quickly, in record time, as you know. It will be coming out very, very soon. We have some great companies doing it, and they will distribute it, and we will – through our military – very, very quickly, ” continued the president.
“We will get rid of it. All over the world you see big outbreaks in Europe, big outbreaks in Canada – a very big outbreak in Canada; you saw it today. Lots of outbreaks. But it will disappear, it will disappear. And the vaccines will help, and the therapies will help a lot ”, he insisted.
The President of the United States did not mention the situation in his own country which is however worrying. The number of contaminations has indeed started to rise again, reaching the levels of the beginning of August. Hopes he had placed on the mass delivery of a vaccine before the election were dashed by the desire of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to maintain the usual standards and to only authorize a vaccine if the trials demonstrate that it reduces the incidence of Covid-19 by at least 50%.
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