U.S. President Donald Trump wears a protecting masks whereas boarding Marine One exterior Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart in Bethesda, Ma
U.S. President Donald Trump wears a protecting masks whereas boarding Marine One exterior Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020.
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SINGAPORE — U.S. President Donald Trump thinks individuals need him to look robust regardless of testing optimistic for the coronavirus, however that is displaying “no duty,” a senior lecturer advised CNBC.
“I feel that for (Trump), he believes he must mission invincibility. He thinks that is a very powerful factor, that is what individuals wish to see,” mentioned David Smith of the United States Research Centre on the College of Sydney.
“However he is the president of america. What individuals wish to see is duty, and he’s displaying no duty,” he advised “Road Indicators Asia” on Tuesday.
The president was discharged from Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart on Monday, after three days on the hospital the place he was receiving therapy for Covid-19. Medical consultants beforehand warned that he ought to stay in hospital given his age and the “stealthy” nature of the virus, however Trump mentioned on Twitter that he was “feeling superb.”
What you noticed him simply do at present, is one thing that goes towards all well being logic … But it surely performs totally into the person who his base loves and continues to help.
Frederick Kempe
President and CEO of the Atlantic Council
His medical doctors mentioned on Monday that his situation had “continued to enhance” over the past 24 hours, and he’ll proceed to be handled on the White Home.
Trump was additionally criticized for happening a drive exterior Walter Reed on Sunday, throughout which he waved to his supporters gathered exterior the hospital. Docs mentioned he put his Secret Service brokers at “completely pointless danger” by entering into the automobile whereas “actively infectious.”
Greater than 35.four million individuals have been contaminated by Covid-19, and at the very least 1 million have died, in keeping with information compiled by Johns Hopkins College.
Smith mentioned the president appears to be taking “increasingly more steps” that put the individuals round him in danger.
“When america appears to be getting ready to a 3rd wave of the pandemic, which has already killed greater than 200,000 individuals, I do not assume that that irresponsibility goes to be rewarded,” he mentioned.
Nevertheless, Frederick Kempe, president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, who’s a CNBC contributor, mentioned Trump was taking part in to his base and is aware of that the one means he can win is by “solidifying” that help forward of the November election.
“What you noticed him simply do at present, is one thing that goes towards all well being logic,” he advised CNBC’s “Capital Connection” on Tuesday. “But it surely performs totally into the person who his base loves and continues to help.”