In the land of spectacle politics, the staging was tailor-made for television.
In a new bravado launched at Covid-19, Donald Trump descends from his helicopter, appears on a balcony of the White House and, right in his boots, tears off his mask as he barely leaves the hospital.
With a daring poker stroke, the president is thus trying to impose himself as an improbable champion in the fight against Covid and to turn the narrative on his contested management of the pandemic.
In the ocean of unknowns thrown by the president's illness on this campaign, one thing is certain: Trump has just brought the coronavirus back to the heart of the electoral debate.
Was it very clever?
Presidential denial has made the White House Washington's main cluster.
Trump claims to have conquered evil, but according to his own doctors' admission, he is not yet out of the woods.
"Do not be afraid of the Covid"
,
"do not let it dominate your lives", he
says, making little of his 210,000 fellow citizens carried away
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