In a binary world of winners and losers, heroes and suckers, United States President Donald Trump's personal victory over Covid-19 enhanced his personal myth to an adoring base.
"Covid, covid, covid," he has taken to saying recently, casting it as an overblown phenomenon amplified by a hostile media to crash the economy and make him look bad.
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