AT HIS first campaign rally since being diagnosed and hospitalized with Covid-19, President Donald Trump late Monday delivered a characteristically deranged and lie-filled speech to a closely packed and largely maskless crowd of supporters in Sanford, Florida, a state that reported more than 5,500 new coronavirus cases just 24 hours earlier.
Apparently eager to project an appearance of good health with less than a month to go before the November election, Trump—his voice sometimes sounding hoarse—said he feels “so powerful” and, voicing no concern for the well-being of others, boasted that he could walk into the crowd and “kiss everyone” without any health consequences.
“One thing with me, the nice part: I went through it, now they say I’m immune,” Trump baselessly claimed on the same day scientists confirmed the first case of coronavirus reinfection in the United States.
“I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss
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