According to a new book by his former chief of staff, there was a heightened sense of enthusiasm among his most ardent supporters when Donald Trump returned to the White House after being hospitalized for COVID-19.
As Trump returned to the campaign trail in the final stretch before the general election, he was held in even higher regard among the legions of voters who supported him in 2016 and supported his reelection bid in 2020, according to "The Chief's Chief."
I went to around twenty Trump rallies by the time we hit the campaign trail again in October. The media's refusal to cover the events for what they were was striking, as was the intensity of the support for President Trump across the country.
They were always fun. I have never seen anything like the rallies that occurred when we got back on the road after the president's fight with Covid-19 had ended.
The death of George Floyd in May 2020 resulted in young liberal kids coming into majority-minority neighborhoods to cause chaos, only to return to their "safe communities" and leave Black Americans to deal with.
Many African American voters said that they were going to turn out in record numbers for Trump, because the president heard about the detrimental impact of the riots on their communities, according to a former Republican congressman.
The former presidential aide said that Trump spoke to members of the "Blexit" movement, which seeks to encourage Black voters to leave the Democratic Party. The president spoke to the crowd from the White House Blue Room balcony as he recovered from the coronaviruses.
It was a great day. There was uproarious applause when the president got up to the microphone. It was a formidable sound, even out on the lawn, where you don't typically get the kind of acoustics that are available in an auditorium.
After the rally, I met with the president to discuss several issues. I wore a surgical smock, face mask, and gloves before entering the Oval Office, which became standard operating procedure after the president's infection. I looked like I was going to have open heart surgery when I brief the president. I was relieved to have him behind the Resolute desk.
After leaving the hospital, Meadows heaped more praise on Trump's leadership.
He wrote that he would have dressed in a giant penguin suit if it was possible to have him back in the Oval.
The disease was contracted by Trump after he downplayed the threat. The then-president ignored the advice of top public health experts to wear a mask or face-cover in public to reduce the spread of the coronaviruses.
