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Covid-19: "The virus and the president"

10/4/2020, 8:33:00 PM


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Patrick de Saint-Paul.Unintentionally, Donald Trump has just shattered a new ceiling of narcissism. Hospitalized since Friday, after contracting Covid-19, the president has managed to make Twitter, his favorite network, a monitor of his vital signs. The world is watching the frequency of his tweets as if he were scanning his heartbeat, looking for clues about his state of health. While rumors circulate, the indication

Unintentionally, Donald Trump has just shattered a new ceiling of narcissism.

Hospitalized since Friday, after contracting Covid-19, the president has managed to make Twitter, his favorite network, a monitor of his vital signs.

The world is watching the frequency of his tweets as if he were scanning his heartbeat, looking for clues about his state of health.

While rumors circulate, the indication is far from trivial: the frenzy of the Republican candidate has given way to a strange arrhythmia.

In theory, this new thunderclap in a crazy presidential campaign is not good news for Donald Trump's camp.

One month before the election, concerns related to his state of health feed the questions.

Will he be physically able to go to the end of this marathon and lead the country if he is elected?

Added to the uncertainty is the political embarrassment for a president who has repeatedly downplayed the lethality of a virus that has already killed more

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