COVID-19 brings out the new Donald Trump

Mar 17, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Step in Coronavirus or COVID-19 and allow the new Donald Trump to step up. Yes, let’s hear it for the Donald. After all, according to Samuel Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, “give credit to whom credit is due”.
America is now seeing a new Donald Trump as he works to get on top of the Coronavirus. Gone is the political pugilist taking shots at his critics and enemies, and the eager participant in partisan posturing.
Now for the first time, the president is appearing to the American people like a competent manager- organizing a team that faces discouraging tasks against heavy odds. Another big change is that he is working well and uniting with others, as he brings in private sector leaders and experts in an all-out effort to make anti-virus plans work.
Seemingly in sync with the well-known hit tune “Ain’t no stopping us now”, Donald Trump has persuaded the likes of Walmart, Target and Walgreens to convert portions of their parking lots into drive through testing centres for COVID-19.
Additionally, he gets the Food and Drug Administration to fast track approvals of testing technologies. Strange but true, he has been able to work with Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, agreeing on an economic and financial relief program, which includes waiving interest on student debt, providing paid medical leave to victims, expanded nutrition programs, short term-loans to affected businesses and an infinite number of other efforts to assuage the effects of the virus.
During 9/11 the nation learned about George W. Bush and now thanks to COVID-19 we are learning about who Donald Trump really is.
Gone is the reality show performer, or the galvanizing take-no-prisoners partisan, replaced instead by a man who is just about getting the work done. No longer picking fights with anyone, even the European Union, now content to lead an above-politics effort to deal with the present emergency brought on by the Coronavirus.
Last Friday, President Trump announced that Sunday, March 15th would be declared a National Day of Prayer, and said that he would monitor a church service online.
“It is my great honour to” Trump tweeted. “We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these.
The announcement was made on the same day that he also declared a national emergency over COVID-19, which claimed thousands of lives worldwide.
Yes, the President is looking more presidential now, in so much that many are wondering how much of the new Donald Trump reflects the influence of his Vice President, Mike Pence.
In consideration of the known fact that this former governor of Indiana is accustomed to the challenges of management, we are all left with the conundrum — how much of the new Donald Trump is reflective of the influence of Vice President Mike Pence? An answer is unrequited.
Instead let’s forget the past and enjoy the present while it lasts. We should unite with the president in the fight towards putting the Coronavirus to flight. Together, we will easily PREVAIL!” Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet.
Yvonne Sam

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