Breaking News: Donald And Melania Trump Tested Positive For COVID

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

It’s not clear whether Trump and his “wife” contracted coronavirus from his adviser Hope Hicks or whether all three contracted it from another source.

The New York Times reports:

Ms. Hicks is the closest person to the president known to have contracted the virus. She traveled with Mr. Trump to the presidential debate in Ohio on Tuesday and accompanied him aboard Air Force One to Minnesota for a campaign rally on Wednesday night.

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Officials at the White House have known since Wednesday evening that she had the virus. Her condition was first reported by Bloomberg News, which also said that she had been quarantined on the flight home. Ms. Hicks, 31, began showing symptoms during the president’s Minnesota rally and she exited from the back of Air Force One. She tested positive on Thursday.

And this, in a separate Times article:

Mr. Trump’s positive test result could pose immediate difficulties for the future of his campaign against former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic challenger, with just 33 days before the election on Nov. 3. Even if Mr. Trump, 74, remains asymptomatic, he will have to withdraw from the campaign trail and stay isolated in the White House for an unknown period of time. If he becomes sick, it could raise questions about whether he should remain on the ballot at all.

Even if he does not become seriously ill, the positive test could prove devastating to his political fortunes given his months of diminishing the seriousness of the pandemic even as the virus was still ravaging the country and killing about 1,000 more Americans every day. He has repeatedly predicted the virus “is going to disappear,” asserted that it was under control and insisted that the country was “rounding the corner” to the end of the crisis. He has scorned scientists, saying they were mistaken on the severity of the situation.

Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section. But please, let’s be like Michelle Obama and keep to the high road.

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commented 2020-10-03 03:02:07 -0400 · Flag

- One shouldn’t worry too much. After all, COVID-19 is just like the flu, right ? And it was above all “our dear leader” who had the wisdom to know that, right ?

commented 2020-10-03 02:50:26 -0400 · Flag

My skepticism fueled by 3 to 4 years of constant lying was unfounded but I’ll limit my sense of schadenfreude to the saying; “if you keep looking for trouble, you’re likely to find it”. Trump’s deliberate denial of a reality he understood perfectly well in February (February!!) makes this a classical case of karma. I am sincerely glad Barron may have dodged the bullet: the kid already has a lot on his plate.

On another front, could the treatments be dictated by Trump, himself? I find it hard to believe a proper physician would prescribe the highest dose of a yet-unproven antibody cocktail followed so closely by the administration of Remdesevir. I fully expect the next memo to report the use of steroids. Both Remdesevir and steroids are reportedly not all that effective in the early stages of the disease. And not for everybody.

commented 2020-10-02 20:03:19 -0400 · Flag

I have the same amount of sympathy for him as he has shown the 210,000

commented 2020-10-02 19:41:56 -0400 · Flag

Considering we’re operating in a truth-optional world right now, we have to go by verifiable events and actions, not words. The fact that he is already being treated with an experimental cocktail not approved by the FDA speaks volumes.

commented 2020-10-02 18:37:03 -0400 · Flag

Just what I said 8 hours ago that would happen. Walter Reed. Precautionary move. This is a very lethal matter that will likely require oxygen treatment.

commented 2020-10-02 18:30:25 -0400 · Flag

Pence’s spokesman was just rushed to Walter Reed by Marine One. They’re publicly saying that this is for “an abundance of caution”. They’re also admitting that he now has a fever, but reports are differing about the severity.

Regardless of the spin they’re going to attempt here, the fever and the hospital are not signs to be taken lightly.

commented 2020-10-02 18:28:24 -0400 · Flag

Pence’s spokesman was just rushed to

commented 2020-10-02 14:40:34 -0400 · Flag

“it is what it is.”

commented 2020-10-02 13:25:45 -0400 · Flag

Yeah, no way this is staged. Trump having to stay in the WH for 14 days will be worse on him and people around him than Covid. No rallies. But no way he was doing the third debate anyways. He might not even have done the second one.

Just imagine the outrage if Biden had tested positive and canceled the second debate?

commented 2020-10-02 10:47:41 -0400 · Flag

The WH has now announced that Trump has “mild” symptoms. Whatever that means. We do know that he is 74, obese, eats junk food and doesn’t exercise. His real medical condition has been lied about consistently by quack doctors in his employ. Would not be surprised if he is admitted to Walter Reed Hospital soon as a “precautionary” measure. Keep a ventilator handy.

commented 2020-10-02 10:37:27 -0400 · Flag

I’ve got some errands to run and then I’ll be back to work (knock wood).

commented 2020-10-02 10:36:23 -0400 · Flag

Bemused, I was immediately skeptical, too. But I think it’s true because of the way it was rolled out. If it was a lie, I think Trump would have announced the news in the afternoon for better ratings. Also, I don’t think Melania would be positive, too.

commented 2020-10-02 10:20:47 -0400 · Flag

As I told Bemused earlier, there is no way I can wish the worst American in history well. I would prefer to see him humiliated by having his ‘empire’ razed to the ground and then spending what’s left of his miserable life rotting in prison, but hey, I’ll accept a slow, agonising Covid death if that’s what it takes.

commented 2020-10-02 09:22:56 -0400 · Flag

Will President Trump be willing to try his pal Vladimir Putin’s new vaccine?

commented 2020-10-02 08:31:50 -0400 · Flag

Well, there goes the rest of the debates!
(thankfully!)

commented 2020-10-02 06:17:26 -0400 · Flag

If the news is indeed factual, I cannot but wish good luck to the Trumps and anybody else who catches this virus. Only a Trumpian Republican would wish otherwise were the shoe on the other foot.

commented 2020-10-02 06:15:54 -0400 · Flag

Call me cynical but I wonder if the “news” may not be Trump’s way both of garnering sympathy (poor you, it wasn’t your fault, it was fate … oops, the Dems), while also giving himself a a medical excuse NOT to participate in future (disastrous) debates and (criminally negligent) rallies. WITHOUT having to apologise for having been totally derelict with regard to the pandemic. In February, he told Woodward that Covid-19 was really deadly, a lot worse than the worst flu, etc. and yet he told the world that it was nothing to worry about.

I mean, really, Trump lies all the time and it wouldn’t surprise me one teeny-weeny bit were he to pop up in 15 days declaring that he “beat the virus”, only for someone to leak out the truth that he hadn’t had it at all. Oh dear. Has Pollyanna morphed into a conspiracy theorist? Only time will tell.

commented 2020-10-02 03:08:08 -0400 · Flag

This is extremely serious. Given the way that the Pence White House has regularly flouted the protocols, I would think that the entire West Wing will need to be quarantined and tested – including Pence himself. Given the repeated super spreader events they’ve been attending over the past weeks, there’s a potentially large circle of people infected. Fox News is pushing a narrative that the Pence White House personnel all wore masks (as a way of dismissing masks in general) but it’s known that in fact Trump and everyone around him refused to do so. The RNC events at the White House were a direct indicator of that.

This will now become a day by day situation. We’ll just have to see how far and wide the contact tracing goes.

commented 2020-10-02 02:12:06 -0400 · Flag

thoughts & prayerz Donny, thoughts & prayerz