The United States is the country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, both in number of deaths and cases, with 97,048 deaths for 1,621,658 cases according to the latest data available on Saturday evening May 23. The country recorded 1,127 new deaths in 24 hours on Saturday. Crossing the 100,000 death mark seems only a matter of days. To mark the imminent passage of this terrible bar, the American daily newspaper The New York Times devotes its front page on Sunday to the memory of a thousand of them and evokes for each what its life was.
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The expected crossing of the 100,000 death mark comes against the backdrop of heated debates about confinement, several states having undertaken to ease the restrictive measures decided against the spread of the disease. Donald Trump, a candidate for re-election in November, is pressing for economic recovery, calling on democratic governors to "liberate" their state in defiance of the warnings of his scientific advisers. The crisis has also put 40 million people out of work in the country.
But at the same time, we learned that Trump had gone golfing on Saturday for the first time since March 8 at his Virginia club near Washington. American media reports that it had been 75 days since he last played.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden did not fail to point out the inconsistency of the situation:
George Conway, a critic of the president and the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, also tweeted a photo from the New York Times alongside a photo of Trump playing golf:
Others recalled that in 2014 Trump himself mocked Barack Obama playing golf during the Ebola crisis:
