Correspondent in Washington
Trump had to catch up on his first fakes in the face of the coronavirus pandemic by announcing a state of emergency on American soil on Friday. Faced with the first major crisis of his presidency, Trump experiences the limits of his method of government. Intended to reassure the population and the financial markets, his first televised speech on Wednesday evening was perceived as a sign of the confusion and the preparation of an administration based essentially on the instincts of the president. However, for the first time, they failed.
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Instead of giving clear directives to the Americans and the federal authorities, the measures announced by Trump have rather worried about their lack of scope. The main announcement, that of the suspension of links with Europe, took everyone by surprise. Without even talking about the countries concerned, the American administration,
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