DONALD Trump bizarrely suggested that he "may not be seen for a while because he has rich enemies who are very unhappy with him."
"I have a lot of enemies out there, this may be the last time you see me for a while," said during a speech at the Whirlpool Plant in on Thursday.
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"A lot of very very rich enemies but they are not happy with what I'm doing.
"But I figure we have one chance to do it and no other president is going to do what I do."
on social media for opening the event with Guns N' Roses cover of the Wings song Live And Let Die.
The president's tone-deaf entrance played out as roughly 1,000 Americans die each day from .
"The is playing Live And Let Die before Trump's arrival at a thinly disguised campaign event in Ohio that the state's governor cannot attend because he just came down with Covid-19," journalist Robert Mackey captioned the video, noting that more than 1,400 died from the disease on Wednesday.
Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose - whose cover version of the Wings classic was played - has over the death of .
Missing from Trump's event on Thursday was Ohio Gov Mike DeWine, who announced before he was due to greet the president in Cleveland.
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A later test reversed that diagnosis, however, suggesting he received a false-positive result in his first test.
When Trump was asked about the governor's news, the president said that "a very good friend of mine" (DeWine) tested positive for COVID-19.
The 73-year-old governor was set to meet Trump on the tarmac of Burke Lakefront Airport.