The severe health crisis the United States is going through after other countries has not changed one of Donald Trump's character traits: his versatility. Since March 23, the one who presented himself a week earlier as "A wartime president" lets express his impatience to see the American economy set off again, halted net by the containment measures taken in an attempt to curb the progress of the Covid-19, and whose good health until the beginning of March was to constitute one of his main campaign arguments for the November presidential election.
Questioned mid-day by conservative Fox News on Tuesday, Donald Trump expressed the wish for a quick return to normal. "You have to go back to work, much sooner than people think", he assured before setting a deadline. "I would be delighted if the country started up again for Easter", or April 12, he said. "Wouldn't it be great to have all the churches full? Full churches all over the country? ", he added. During his daily briefing from the White House later today, the president, eager to declare victory, said: "Great hope when we look forward and start to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
The day before, Donald Trump had already given the impression of being more worried about the consequences of these precautionary measures which are generalized elsewhere in the world than the impact of the coronavirus on the American population. Once again, he recalled the deadly toll from the flu, citing that of the ongoing epidemic which could exceed 50,000 dead to put that of the pandemic into perspective. " It's a lot ", he noted.
"And look at the car accidents, which are far more important than all the numbers we are talking about. This does not mean that we are going to tell everyone to stop driving cars. So we have to do things to unlock our country ”, he added before darkly depicting the potential consequences of confinements, if they were to continue: "People with massive depression, who kill themselves, terrible deaths that happen …" "Do you think it's just the coronavirus that kills people?" This Total Economic Stop Will Kill People ", he continued.
