When President Trump was released from the hospital after being treated for COVID-19, he had a prescription for how Americans could handle coronavirus.
“Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it,” he said in a video from the White House. The apparent idea: that the coronavirus — which has killed at least 225,000 people in the U.S. — could be wrestled into submission.
The way Trump has sold strength as a key part of fighting the virus is echoed by supporters. Garland Thompson was in the cheering crowd gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when Trump left the hospital. I asked him how worried about Trump’s health he was. He said he wasn’t.
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