Eschewing the president's traditional role as 'comforter in chief,' Pres. Trump has yet to visit a hospital, and there have been few signs that he has interacted with people who have fallen ill.
His expressions of empathy have come few and far between, punctuating his passionate promises of economic redemption and attacks on his political opponents.
Former Michigan football player Mark Campbell makes remarks about his bout with coronavirus with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence listening during a meeting with recovered coronavirus patients in the Cabinet Room at the White House, April 14, 2020."The word empathy is not in his vocabulary," presidential historian Ted Widmer, a professor at the City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College, told ABC News.
In mid-April, the president brought a group of Americans who had recovered from the virus to the White House, although he devoted a large portion of the gathering to promoting a drug treatment that has not actually been proven to help. But in early April, he said Chera's diagnosis had not marked a turning point in his own thinking about the coronavirus.
"I have many people. I know many stories," Trump said."I have spoken to three, maybe I guess four families unrelated to me. I did. I lost a very good friend. I also lost three other friends, two of whom I didn't know as well, but they were friends and people I did business with." President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Florida Governor Rick Scott, right, tour damage from Hurricane Michael in Lynn Haven, Florida, Oct. 15, 2018.
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