Ken Holmes, a retired maintenance worker in Wisconsin, never had much in common with Donald Trump, or much affection for him.
But when the president caught a potentially lethal virus that had nearly killed Holmes this year, the 64-year-old saw a rare opportunity for connection. Trump, Holmes thought, might finally understand what he had come to learn through painful experience: The novel coronavirus is a monster that commands respect.
“He can still make this right,” Holmes thought.
But then Trump stood on the White House balcony Monday night, theatrically ripped offhis mask while gasping for breath, and proclaimed the virus was nothing to fear. Continue reading.