'Although the prose wasn't quite as polished as the Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, it had the same compressed, forceful quality that had made President Lincoln's words so effective..'
President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC.Heaping praise on his former boss, Meadows compared one of Trump's speeches to the Gettysburg Address.Trump's post-COVID diagnosis speech had "the same compressed, forceful quality" as Lincoln's best-known address, Meadows wrote.
"Although the prose wasn't quite as polished as the Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, it had the same compressed, forceful quality that had made President Lincoln's words so effective at the time they were delivered," Meadows wrote.
"One thing that's for certain: Don't let it dominate you," Trump said of the coronavirus. "Don't be afraid of it. You're going to beat it. We have the best medical equipment; we have the best medicines, all developed recently. You're going to beat it.""This was the kind of direct, unpolished honesty that the country had been missing from President Trump, while he was sick," he wrote.