As soon as he returned to the White House from Walter Reed Medical Center, President Trump began to downplay the severity of COVID-19, brazenly taking off his mask as he got off the Marine One and recording a video about how he overcame the virus. He urged Americans to not let the pandemic dominate their lives.
The conservative media and Republican lawmakers immediately began to spew misinformation about how the CDC had exaggerated the pandemic to ruin the Trump administration, among others. Facebook and Twitter both flagged some of his posts as misleading information, and a study by Cornell University found that nearly 40% of coronavirus misinformation was related to the president.
As this happened, several prominent Republicans who had been in close contact with him had been hospitalized, and he was still heavily drugged and not perfectly healthy. Should one of them die, the road ahead would be very unclear, and the children of several others who had followed Trump's guidance and died have spoken out against him.
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