Even as Trump adopts a somber, get-ready-for-the-worst tone, he has still sought to portray himself as a hero for his actions thus far
Don’t focus on the 200,000 people the coronavirus might kill in the U.S., think about the 2 million people President Donald Trump is saving.
“Think of the number — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing, if we didn’t do the distancing, if we didn’t do all of the things that we’re doing,” Trump said Sunday.Instead, with the current measures in place — including federal guidelines recommending extreme social distancing through the end of April and travel restrictions for various global hot spots — the death toll is expected to fall between 100,000 and 240,000, according to the government model.
And it reflects the latest messaging campaign as Trump, backed by his aides and surrogates, argues that the administration’s actions are responsible for saving lives. The same day, Trump also painted himself as the savior of a testing system that has lagged in the first few months of the coronavirus outbreak, as states have struggled to process coronavirus tests in a timely fashion. Trump has argued — inaccurately — that Obama-era guidelines prevented the swift approval of commercial coronavirus tests, and said he came along and changed them. He also has falselythat World Health Organization coronavirus test kits were bad tests and that the U.S.
Trump’s critics and public health leaders counter that while these moves may be helping, they are far from enough. And they note that the projected 100,000 death toll assumes widespread adherence to the current extreme social-distancing guidelines until June. Not every state has formally adopted these emergency rules, and compliance with voluntary guidelines has varied. In addition, Trump so far has called for them to stay in place only until the end of this month.
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