Donald Trump resists. To the coronavirus (it is not contaminated), as to what it demands from it. After dismissing with disdain the need for a drug test, when he had rubbed shoulders with an infected person the previous weekend, the President of the United States eventually changed his mind. He took the exam Friday evening, March 13, just as the White House released a statement from his doctor that dismissed the need. A new anecdotal illustration of the difficulties of a presidency that fails to rise to the height of the pandemic.
The formal address, delivered on Wednesday evening, had already been partly sabotaged by Donald Trump himself. The president had unfortunately departed from the text he was reading on a teleprompter, suggesting that the ban on access to American territory imposed on nationals of Schengen countries also applied to goods. He must have pitifully rectified while his administration clarified at the same time that the measure did not apply to the Americans.
The greatest virtues had been recognized in the United Kingdom and Ireland, strangely excluded from this exceptional regime. They did not last three days, the two countries being subject to it from Saturday. Friday, as he attended a make-up press conference in the White House rose garden, Donald Trump vigorously shook hands with private sector officials he associated with the federal response, in disregard of good prophylactic practices that health experts keep repeating.
Donald Trump's original sin was to deny the reality of the crisis when everything seemed to be going well, from the good health of the economy to the fratricidal Democratic quarrels. Following him, his favorite media threw themselves headlong into denouncing yet another conspiracy. With such fervor that the conservative chain Fox Business was forced Friday to rest a presenter, Trish Regan, who lambasted imperturbably " the democratic coronavirus sham "
The search for a scapegoat
Now resigned, he refuses to be the messenger of bad news, leaving his chief immunologist, Anthony Fauci, responsible for announcing that the worst is yet to come. The chief divider makes occasional calls to the unit immediately invalidated by attacks against its real or supposed adversaries. On Friday morning, he accused Barack Obama, who left the White House more than three years ago, of leaving behind an administration he said was crippled by red tape.
