The White House released a photograph yesterday of President Trump working out of Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, while undergoing treatment for COVID-19. His medical team said he could be released as soon as today if his condition continues to improve. Global stocks rose this morning on the news.
The president’s illness has not only thrown the race into turmoil—it has also revealed deep fault lines in our culture.
“The other side is less than fully human”
When the president and his wife announced that they had tested positive for COVID-19, some of the responses on social media were so horrific and some of their language was so profane that I will not repeat them or link to them.
By contrast, Joe Biden tweeted: “Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.” Kamala Harris added that she and her husband join the Bidens “in wishing President Trump and the First Lady a full and speedy recovery. We’re keeping them and the entire Trump family in our thoughts.”
And MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, no friend of the president, tweeted, “God bless the president and the first lady. If you pray, please pray for their speedy and complete recovery—and for everyone infected, everywhere.”
Some of President Trump’s critics are responding to him and his wife as people whose ideas they oppose. Others are responding to them as enemies who should be punished or worse.
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