Trump the commander-in-bleach has been stripped of all feeling | Richard Wolffe
As the death toll rises, the president seems incapable of empathy. Maybe the disinfectant knocked it out of him
Donald Trump kindly obliged when a reporter asked last month if our commander-in-bleach saw America as being at war against the coronavirus.
“I do. I actually do,” he admitted, as the official death toll reached just 145 Americans. “I view it as a, in a sense, a wartime president. I mean that’s what we’re fighting. I mean, it’s – it’s a very tough situation. You’re – you have to do things.”