The president has offered rare personal reflections about how the outbreak is affecting him. Yet he has also personalized other elements, such as medical supply requests.
“Nobody takes things more personally than me,” Donald Trump once said on an episode of his reality television show, “The Apprentice.”
“For Trump, it was something that made him realize it could hit celebrity America, and I think that brought it more vividly alive to him than statistics,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. Presidents throughout history have dealt with speculation about how their personal histories color their reactions to history-making moments. When Trayvon Martin was killed, Barack Obama generated countless think pieces — and notable conservative anger — when he reflected, “this could have been my son.” George W. Bush felt the need in a post-presidency book to defensively insist that he hadn’t invaded Iraq to finish what his father started with Operation Desert Storm.
Trump said his friend’s experience didn’t affect his decision to extend the length of the White House social-distancing guidelines from two weeks to six. Instead, he pointed to the influence of models predicting more than 2 million American deaths if the country did nothing to slow the virus. But the event did put a human face for the president on the disease’s viciousness.
“They have to treat us well,” Trump said about state officials in a Fox News interview in late March. “They can’t say, ‘Oh, gee, we should get this, we should get that.’” Romney had gone into isolation after Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a Trump friend, tested positive. Unlike Romney, however, Paul received regular, personalized well wishes from the president.
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