Donald Trump was giving a speech on Saturday in the White House garden on the occasion of American National Day. Traditionally unifying, the speech of the American president took the turn of a campaign rally, four months before the presidential election, in an America divided by the coronavirus crisis and the historic demonstrations against racism and police violence.
“We will never let an angry crowd demolish our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children or trample our freedoms. We will safeguard our values, traditions, customs and beliefs.
We will teach our children to cherish their country so that they can build its future, ”he said, referring to statues of figures associated with slavery either unbolted or vandalized by some protesters in recent weeks.
The president wanted to be reassuring about the increase in the cases of Covid-19, although the number of dead and contaminated continues to increase in a worrying way. “We have made a lot of progress. Our strategy works well "he launched, hammering away his conviction that a treatment and / or a vaccine would probably be available" well before the end of the year ". The United States is the country most affected by the virus in the world, with nearly 130,000 deaths.