Matt Berman is the politics editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. “It was awful,” he continued. Some Democrat leaders banned church services while marijuana shops and abortion clinics were declared ‘essential,’" she said.The tone of the RNC matches Trump’s newly released A supporter photographs Trump as he speaks during the first day of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Aug. 24.During the first night of the convention, Americans heard from a nurse who extolled telehealth, something Trump himself has frequently raised as a key success in his response to the coronavirus. President Donald Trump on Monday stopped short of criticizing Gov. Trump … An unidentified mourner from Robert Trump's funeral allegedly punched a Washington D.C. restaurant worker in the face. "Saturday's rally event at Pease is just a few short miles [from] our establishment and is expected to attract a lot of out of state people from all across the country to the area so we are taking the necessary precautions to keep our employees and valued local customers safe," read a statement from the restaurantIt's unclear how many people will attend the Trump rally, but a "The last thing I need are people that aren't wearing masks, that aren't socially distanced, that aren't safe," said Glen Jodoin, co-owner of The Corner Pub in Kittery, Maine.Marred by trauma after George Floyd's death, Minneapolis hit with more lootingWhy celebrity chef Tunde Wey wants to charge white people $100 for saltNH Restaurant Closes Ahead of Trump Rally Over Coronavirus ConcernsShow full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. The convention’s speakers and videos have engaged in a widespread revisionist history of how Trump led the nation, casting him as the hero of a story that, in reality, is still being fought by nurses in hospital rooms, by seniors struggling and isolated, by parents who are working and homeschooling children at the same time, by restaurant waiters risking exposure from unmasked patrons so they can make rent, by paramedics and transit workers who crisscrossed the streets of major cities transporting people struggling to breathe.As the Republicans lavish praise on Trump at the RNC, these Americans are barely mentioned, aside from a video with the president and essential workers that aired Monday and when Melania Trump touched on the earlier days of the crisis, thanking first responders and essential workers for taking on risk and putting "our country first. The president did not sow confusion about masks, treatments, and the severity of the virus — he took decisive action from the outset, several speakers said. Some said they or their family members weren’t personally impacted by the coronavirus. Ghali, who specializes in cleft palate surgeries, praised the FDA's Trump, in a segment on the first night with coronavirus first responders, brought up hydroxychloroquine himself.
ET Posted on August 25, 2020, at 11:57 p.m. "Even during the pandemic, we saw how quickly life could change. Trust President Donald Trump.In the party’s messaging, people who agonized as they waited for a ventilator in the early phases of the pandemic did not, in fact, suffer — ventilators got to the hospitals that needed them most, the president’s oldest son falsely said Monday night. Citing health and safety concerns for their employees, a New Hampshire restaurant has announced they are shutting down for a week ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit this weekend. “I don't want to hear a whole night about coronavirus,” adding that he’s traveled since the March lockdowns to known hotspots and beaches. Many of them were maskless standing within inches of one another.“I don't want to hear a whole convention about corona,” supporter Tom Connors said at the rally.
I want you to know, you are not alone.”Her speech stood out on a night, and in a convention, where the pandemic has otherwise been alluded to as a thing of the past. But Trump, who will accept his party’s nomination at the convention’s close on Thursday night, has already clearly laid out his view. Coronavirus; 5 Most Cringe-Worthy Excerpts from Trump’s Talk With NYC Restaurant Owners. Businesses may still be struggling to survive and the economy may have suffered unprecedented job loss, but it'll ultimately be fine — Trump will just fix it again.The pandemic has been glossed over as a temporary blip in Trump’s presidency, the fault of a foreign government, a bump in the road that will soon end. "It's a shame what they've done to that one." "I won't ask you about the hydroxychloroquine," Trump said, during a prerecorded video where he spoke to someone who had been sick with COVID-19 for 10 days and asked how he’d been treated. It was not until the final speech of the second night of the Republican National Convention that someone directly brought up the deaths suffered during the “I want to acknowledge the fact that since March, our lives have changed drastically,” first lady Melania Trump said from the White House’s Rose Garden on Tuesday night. Trump’s Covid-19 response has been a disaster, no mater what he claims. Trump argued his response to the coronavirus pandemic was great. Over the first two nights, Republicans’ message to Americans after six months of a failed pandemic response has come down to this plea: Ignore reality. But a statement from its spokesperson reiterated the same revisionary rhetoric the president has used in nearly every White House briefing on the topic.“Americans have seen President Trump out front and leading the nation in the fight against the coronavirus,” Tim Murtaugh, Trump’s campaign communications director, told BuzzFeed News in a statement.“We heard a lot about projected ventilator shortages in the early days, but the President was strategic about deploying our existing supplies and ramped up the production of new ventilators.