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Coronavirus in the United States: the situation is improving, the Conservatives and Trump are stamping out

2020-05-03T17:08:33.648Z


The president, ready to set out again in campaign, must animate a debate live from Washington this Sunday evening. The theme, while the demonstrations


Fifteen. That's the number of tweets that President Donald Trump posted this Sunday, in less than two hours. Although the figures for the epidemic remain very high in the United States, the White House tenant has ants in his legs, and his hyperactivity on social networks is not the only proof of this. “We miss our wonderful meetings and so many other things! ", He tweeted Sunday morning. Adding: "Our country will soon recover".

Hopefully our Country will soon mend. We are all missing our wonderful rallies, and many other things! https://t.co/LX8TyBzsXO

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2020

If the daily number of deaths has stagnated, the United States, which had formalized its first death related to the coronavirus in early February, remains the country most affected by the epidemic. A total of 66,385 people died among the 1,133,069 cases diagnosed.

Of these, 175,382 were declared cured. In New York, the field hospital set up at the end of March in Central Park to treat the patients of Covid-19 will close in two weeks, the time to finish treating the patients who are in its tents. A sign that the state health system can now suffice.

The President left the White House for the first time since March 28 on Friday. His Marine One helicopter took him to Camp David, the presidential retreat, in Maryland, for the weekend.

Trump faces citizens live on Fox News

This Sunday, Donald Trump will not return immediately to the White House. Instead of his daily debriefing since the start of the crisis - canceled last weekend after his blunder on the ingestion of disinfectant - he must lead a debate with citizens this Sunday evening.

Called "America Together: Going Back to Work", this meeting, broadcast live on Fox News, will take place at the Lincoln Memorial, on the National Mall in Washington, the federal capital, confined since March 15.

Six months before the presidential election, Donald Trump has not held a campaign meeting since March 2, in North Carolina, he who usually holds two to four per week. The Lincoln Memorial offers a spectacular setting: the huge white marble building houses an impressive statue of Abraham Lincoln, who remains one of the most popular presidents in the country.

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Uninterested in history, Donald Trump rarely mentions those who preceded him in the White House. Except Abraham Lincoln. Retweeting a message Saturday from one of the enthusiastic supporters claiming that he had done "more for blacks than all the presidents combined", Donald Trump added: "It's true", while stressing that Lincoln was "not not bad either.

Travel to Arizona and Ohio

This appointment with Fox News is only the beginning. On Tuesday, Donald Trump is scheduled to fly to Phoenix, Arizona, where he will visit a medical device manufacturing plant. A trip to Ohio is also planned. On these two occasions, he should mention the “reopening” of the country, which many supporters loudly call for.

Friday and Saturday, a "national rally for freedom" took place across several locations across the country. In Sacramento, California, a thousand people demonstrated on May 1 against the orders of social distancing of governor Gavin Newsom, described as "tyrant".

In Huntington Beach, we mobilized en masse for the reopening of the beaches. California, where 2,050 people lost their lives due to the Covid-19, was one of the first states to sound the alarm. Similar protests were also held in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

On Saturday, pro-Trump gathered in Northampton, Massachusetts, to voice concerns over the "loss of their freedoms." They also relayed the accusations of the president and his vice-president Mike Pence against "the Chinese Communist Party responsible for the creation of this armed virus", according to the local press.

Source: leparis

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