May 9, 2020

President Donald Trump wants to draft every American to go to war.

Encouraging the public to transition out of isolation and into the world, the president is increasingly deploying battlefield rhetoric in asking everyday Americans to confront a raging coronavirus pandemic that has already infected 1.3 million people in the U.S. and killed nearly 80,000 — and this week clawed into the inner circle of his White House.

“The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors,” he said during a recent visit to a face mask plant in Arizona. “Our country has to open.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/09/donald-trump-coronavirus-wartime-rhetoric-245566