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WASHINGTON (AP) – Masks were rarely seen in the West Wing; crowds of other people piled up in the South Garden of the White House and Air Force One crossed the sky from one great crusade to another.
With simple access to the most productive tests and public aptitude minds at his disposal, President Donald Trump has been the safest American in COVID-19. Instead, he mocked the rules of his own administration and helped create a false sense of invulnerability in the White House. a technique that has now failed him as in a country where more than 200,000 people have died.
Marine One, the presidential helicopter, took off Friday to take Trump to an army hospital from the same White House lawn that, less than a week earlier, had been the site of his nomination for a new Supreme Court justice while on his way to the November election. . .
Several other people who attended the event, adding a U. S. senator, tested positive for coronavirus. Trump is now locked up at Walter Reed Medical Center after he had a fever and felt tired after his morning revelation that he had tested positive for the virus. .
“He left the country ignoring the CDC, ignoring federal rules and acting like Superman,” presidential historian David Brinkley said. “Not only did it downplay the virus, but it paraded like a peacock, mocking those who took it seriously.
From the early days of the pandemic, Trump, through his own admission, downplayed the severity of the virus, warned that it would “disappear” and for a time prompted the full reopening of the U. S. economy until Easter, just a month. after the pandemic absolutely enveloped the country.
And he started temporarily with the recommendation of public fitness experts from his own coronavirus working group, adding Dr. Anthony Fauci and dr. Deborah Birx. Se has publicly clashed with the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. especially from the dangers associated with opening schools to the time of a possible COVID-19 vaccine.
White House staff dared not break up with the president, who sought to include a country on the way home, not a country obsessed with fitness rules that would remind a nervous public of the virus as an economic resurgence.
Experts have suggested widespread use of masks, adding CDC Director Robert Redfield, who testified to Congress last month that face blankets can be a more effective guarantee than a vaccine. Trump has avoided its use and told his assistants he didn’t like it. how he looked and he sent a message to the public that he was concerned about his health.
He only wore a mask sporadically and politicized his use, saying he didn’t want them because he had been tested and the maximum of other people he saw were held two metres away. He mocked Democrat Joe Biden for dressing up in a face mask, while many of the president’s supporters followed suit and ignored them, even at busy events.
And its use, technically required, has also not been implemented in the White House. Most high-level attendees rarely wore masks, even in the limited spaces of the West Wing or Air Force One. contact with the president were given a COVID-19 quick check every day, they were safe in their bubble.
But immediate testing was far from foolproof and was thwarted during the long incubation era of the virus. Staff members, adding the president’s national security adviser and private camera help, contracted the virus, while one of the president’s closest aides, Hope Hicks, tested positive. a few hours before Trump and the first girl, Melania Trump.
“He laughed at the medical experts and their advice. He laughed at all that until the presidential debate when he appeared on this stage,” said Michael Steele, a former GOP leader. data imaginable and I didn’t take it. “
The White House, for its part, downplayed complaints about dresses wearing a stained mask through Trump and his staff, and mentioned the common testing regime. Trump calls his gigantic crusader demonstrations “peaceful demonstrations” with no limits on the length of the crowd. And when it comes to Trump’s deputy director of public fitness officials, officials rush to point out opposing medical views.
Journalist Bob Woodward registered Trump earlier this year, admitting that he was downplaying the risk of the virus. The president has moved forward, insisting that the country was almost above pandemic, even as cases are highest across the country.
Even within hours of the president’s diagnosis, senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and economic adviser Larry Kudlow, walked through the White House complex without masks. The White House, even now, says covers are a matter of “personal choice” for maximum employees.
In an expired change, the National Security Council had to start dressing with them from Friday, and Secret Service agents should use them when social estating is not possible.
And it wasn’t about masks.
As summer comes to an end and Trump lags behind Biden at the ballot box for an election noted as a referendum on white house pandemic management, the president’s crusade aimed to project normalcy in an effort to convince the electorate that the president had the virus. under control.
After a failed attempt to revive Trump-branded rallies in Tulsa in June, the crusade began slowly organizing smaller rallies of supporters, outdoors at airports. Although the CDC advised avoiding giant crowds and unnecessary travel, the president began to cross the country. , even though Biden largely stayed home, performing in virtual events.
Meetings have become increasingly vital over the months, with little social distance and masks advised but not obligatory, and crowds have become a component of the message of two of the president’s recent signing events: many others filled the White House’s south garden for their acceptance speech. at the Republican National Convention, and the rose lawn was complete for selection to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a week ago.
Six days later, Trump returns to this lawn. This time, he walked slowly to the helicopter waiting for Walter Reed for a multi-day hospital stay. There’s no enthusiastic crowd. And everyone on the lawn, reporters and staff, wore a mask. Trump did too.