A White House-themed gift shop is selling a commemorative coin, “Trump defeats COVID,” as President Donald Trump battles coronavirus.
The president returned on Monday evening to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he was treated for COVID-19. His return comes just days after the announcement of his and the first lady’s diagnosis shortly before 1 a.m. on Friday.
In a video following his return to the White House, Trump said, “Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it,” adding, “I’m better, and maybe I’m immune – I don’t know.”
The White House-themed gift shop — which is not affiliated with the White House — has the commemorative coin, “President Donald J. Trump Defeats COVID,” on its website for preorder for $100.
The designer of the coin series and chairman of the White House Gift Shop, Anthony Giannini, said the final commemorative coin of the president’s first term portrays “Trump’s ascendance over and personal defeat of the deadly COVID pandemic virus.”
“When we at WHGS first heard the sad news of President Trump’s positive COVID test, once again we had faith and prayed, yet we knew our President would find a way to knockout COVID in early rounds of this battle,” Giannini said.
“President Trump, as you know, is a fan of boxing, and the new coin design features more than a hint of superhero qualities in history’s most fascinating president.”
Giannini added, “President Trump’s defeat of COVID is a symbol for each of us that COVID can be beaten, not always, sadly, but more often than the fear of COVID that is relentlessly pounded into us each minute of each hour of each day by many media outlets.”
While Trump returned to the White House, White House Physician Dr. Sean Conley said on Monday that the president “may not entirely out of the woods yet” and “the team and I agree that all our evaluations and most importantly his clinical status support the president’s safe return home, where he’ll be surrounded by world-class medical care 24/7.”
There are more than 7.4 million coronavirus cases reported in the U.S. with more than 210,000 deaths due to the virus and over 4.8 million recoveries reported.