US president is promising to find a vaccine for virus as early as later this year. FMTNews Trump
Trump speaks during a Fox News virtual town hall from the Lincoln Memorial on May 3.
“We can’t stay closed as a country, we’re not going to have a country left,” he said on the show, where two moderators, as well as ordinary citizens via video, put questions to him in front of the monument.To a woman who called in expressing fear of financial ruin and eviction, Trump said her job would come back.Saying Americans should start going back to beaches this summer and recommending that shuttered schools need to reopen in September, Trump forecast good news on the hunt for a vaccine.
Worse, the previously booming US economy, which was seen as a golden ticket to his second term, is now in dire straits due to the nationwide lockdown. Having repeatedly minimised the death toll, claiming it will end at around 60,000, Trump conceded that now “I’m saying 80 or 90 and it goes up.” Trump, who calls himself a “wartime president” denied that the election will turn into a referendum on his handling of the crisis.In the next few days, Trump will follow up by breaking months of self-quarantine with long-distance trips to the key electoral states of Arizona and Ohio.
Previous presidents, he said, were “stupid” to allow reliance on foreign manufacturers for US medicines.
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