THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE WARTIME PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP
THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE WARTIME PRESIDENCY OF DONALD TRUMP By Bernard Bujold The President Donald Trump is fighting a war against the Coronavirus and one could say that he is a "Wartime President". It is not easy, for any politician in the world, to fight a war, any war, as his decisions will have a life or death consequence. In the case of Donald Trump, 60% of Americans approve of the job he is doing in handling the crisis while 38% disapprove of how he has done (source the Gallup poll March 13-22, 2020). Recently asked if he regrets to have asked for and win the job as President of the United States, Donald Trump answered that it cost him dearly financially but at the end the question is: "so what?". He realizes that he lost a lot of money, billions of dollars in the last three years (before the Coronavirus crisis) that he would have been able to make with his private enterprises but he did not regret it a...