President Donald Trump has been highlighting lots of seriously huge numbers this week: New highs for the stock market place. The one hundred-plus House members backing a lawsuit difficult his election loss. The practically 75 million people today who voted for him.
All the whilst, he’s looked previous other staggering and more consequential figures: The record numbers of coronavirus deaths, hospitalizations and new circumstances amongst the citizens of the nation he leads.
On Friday, Trump’s group blasted out a text with this robust, higher-minded presidential message: “We will not bend. We will not break. We will never give in. We will never give up.” But it was not a rallying cry to assistance shore up Americans sagging beneath the toll of a pandemic that on Wednesday alone killed more Americans than on D-Day or 9/11. It was element of a fundraising pitch tied to Senate races in Georgia and to Trump’s unsupported claims that Democrats are attempting to “steal” the presidential election he lost.
Of Trump’s tweets more than the previous week, 82 % have been focused on the election and just 7 % on the virus – just about all of these associated to forthcoming vaccines – according to Factba.se, a information analytics firm. Nearly a third of the president’s tweets on the election have been flagged by Twitter for misinformation.
As he talks and tweets at length about the election he is futilely attempting to subvert, the president is leaving Americans without having a central figure to assistance them deal with their grief more than loved-ones’ deaths and the day-to-day danger of the pandemic that nonetheless rages. His method is to concentrate entirely on the shiny object coming quickly – the prospect of a vaccine.