President Trump, year IV: change of campaign

President Donald Trump speaks to the press from the White House on May 1.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press from the White House on May 1. Alex Brandon / AP

Donald Trump couldn't take it anymore, complained about being shut down since " months " to the White House. While Washington remained officially confined, he spent the weekend in the presidential resort of Camp David, Maryland. He will resume Air Force One week for the first time since March 28.

This breakaway will take him to Arizona, a former republican stronghold now disputed by the Democrats, where he will visit a mask factory. Then a move to Ohio should follow. However, reconnecting with this routine is not what he looks forward to the most. Let’s finish with the campaign against the coronavirus he’s already talking about in the past. Deeply the short campaign, that of the presidential.

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"I hope that in the not too distant future we will have massive rallies where people will be sitting side by side. I cannot imagine a meeting where only one seat in four, or one seat in six is ​​occupied ” to prevent the spread of the virus, he said on Wednesday. Such a spectacle "Would not be very beautiful", assured the nostalgic of the tides of red caps struck with his slogans.

His re-election will be played out in just six months

"I hope we will be able to have good old-fashioned meetings, with twenty-five thousand people, where everyone is unleashed because they love our country Added the president. His optimism is all the more intense as his re-election will be played out in just six months.

No matter how hard Donald Trump wanted to go back, when economic indicators promised a path to victory, another campaign opened in the smoking ruins of a country halted by "The invisible enemy", and it is still unreadable.

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Donald Trump has regularly expressed his frustration over the devastation caused by a long-underestimated virus. "I had built the best economy in the history of this country, in the history of the world", he said, disregarding statistics, claiming sole paternity for a success that owed much, too, to the previous Democratic administration.

Health system questions

Not only has he lost what should have been his main argument, but he can hardly blame today as he did yesterday his opponent Joe Biden for being the agent of rampant socialism. The accusation still has its small effect on gullible minds connected to the conservative channel Fox News, but it has become inaudible since the federal state pours on the country hundreds of billions of dollars at the cost of a widening of the budget deficit which would have pushed sedition of the republicans who became rabid.

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