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5/9/20

USA: Trump drafts everyday Americans to adopt his battlefield rhetoric - byCAITLIN OPRYSKO

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.

But the past week marked a more deliberate messaging strategy as the White House shifted its efforts toward resuscitating a sputtering economy with the president’s own battle for reelection less than six months away.

Along with conscripting Americans as soldiers in the reopening effort, this week was also the first time Trump publicly compared the pandemic directly to two of the most notable national tragedies in modern American history.

Read more at: Trump drafts everyday Americans to adopt his battlefield rhetoric - POLITICO

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