Trump in White House isolation

There is a telling photograph in the Washington newspapers today which gives a pretty good idea what life is like in the White House right now for Donald Trump. A Marine with medals and a black mask over his face stands guard outside the glass-pannelled doors of the West Wing. Presumbaly Trump is in the room on the other side of the doors. He has lost more than 30 of his staff, all of whom tested positive with coronavirus, and the president himself, although he claims to be fighting fit and in campaigning mood, cannot be feeling anything other than fatigued and worried. It's far too soon to be instantly better after three days in Walter Reed and his insistence that he is back to normal if not in better health than before is surely more to do with the cocktail of drugs that have been fed into his body than to some miracle rebirth. Then there's Melania upstairs still in isolation. How she is we don't know but sure as hell she can't be visited by her husband while he retains the infection in his system. Same goes for his kids and his closest advisers. So pretty miserable really. Not the sort of atmosphere to try and fight for a job you desperately want for the next four years. Joe Biden is now so far ahead of Trump in almost every poll that even a confident bloke like Trump must be thinking that he actually might lose this battle. The Democrats certainly do. Biden advisers are rushing around drawing up short lists for a President Biden Cabinet. I think they think that it really is going to happen. Provided Biden doesn't do anything seriously stupid in the next three weeks. That's one thing that Trump will be praying for as he sits all alone in whatever room he is in the White House. A huge gaffe would help him a lot. But Biden's advisers will be watching and waiting to stamp it out as quicky as possible. If Biden wants to make sure he doesn't ruin the Democrats best chance of taking back the White House he should step as lightly as possible across the potential political pitfalls, or, better still, avoid them altogether.