Joe Biden’s anticipated recovery from mild COVID-19 symptoms should be viewed as a sign of strength like Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt, according to one American journalist.
In the latest political clip to go viral, MSNBC national correspondent and TV host Joy Reid suggested that, should Biden rebound from his “mild symptoms,” he should be the one donning the hero cape.
“These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo op during an active shooter situation,” Reid told fellow panelists in a televised segment on Wednesday. “His survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his (National Republican Convention) is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength.”
Reid quickly got right down to how she really feels.
“This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing?” she said. “That he’s strong enough — older than Trump — to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn’t that exactly the same? I mean it’s not exactly the same … but it’s an elderly man coming through out of an illness.”
Biden tested positive for COVID while traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas, the White House said, adding that he will fly home to Delaware where he will “self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time.”
Amid the COVID diagnosis, Biden cancelled a meeting with members of a Latino civil rights organization.
Trump was showing off a chart of border-crossing numbers at a rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday when at least five shots were fired. Trump was seen holding his ear and got down on the ground. Agents quickly created a shield around him. When he finally stood, his face bloodied, he pumped his fist to cheering supporters. Trump and his motorcade then left the scene and he was checked into a medical facility in Pennsylvania.
The would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was shot dead at the scene while firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed and another person was injured.