President Trump says COVID-19 Epidemic is a Great and Powerful Plague

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US President Donald Trump has referred to the coronavirus epidemic as a ‘Great and Powerful Plague’ in a tweet. His tweet came after more than 67,000 people in the United States died because of the widespread COVID-19. On Sunday evening, Trump returned to the White House on Marine 1 after a working weekend at Camp David in Maryland. He was accompanied back to DC by son-in-law Jared Kushner and aide Dan Scavino. President started tweeting on Sunday morning, he wrote, “Going well despite the Fake News!” Trump said in a separate tweet and wrote, “And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again!”

Donald Trump added in his tweet and said, “But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than before!” President has evoked controversy during the recent weeks about his administration’s response to the coronavirus epidemic. He has made bizarre comments online about COVID-19 during multiple press briefings at the White House. Trump suggested the possibility of ingesting disinfectants or using sunlight to potentially treat patients infected with Covid-19 during a press conference in late April.

….And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2020

Trump later claimed that his comments weren’t actually serious. A number of states subsequently reported a rise in calls to poison control centers. A Republican Governor for Maryland, Larry Hogan informed CBS in an interview with Face the Nation that his state has experienced hundreds of those calls come in after Trump made the remarks. He said, “I think it is critical that the President of the United States, when people are really scared and in the middle of this worldwide pandemic, that in these press conferences, that we really get the facts out there.” It is noteworthy that Trump has referred to the epidemic as a plague in other statements. He said, “We’re going to beat this plague. We’re going to beat this virus, and we’re going to beat it soon.”