Posted on 10/02/2020 10:02:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump was suffering “mild symptoms” of COVID-19, adding that he was in good spirits and working in the family quarters though the announcement of his illness threw the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election.
The revelation came in a Trump tweet about 1 a.m. after he had returned from an afternoon political fundraiser without telling the crowd he had been exposed to an aide with the disease that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and more than a million people worldwide.
First lady Melania Trump also tested positive, the president said, and several others in the White House have, too, prompting concern that the White House or even Trump himself might have spread the virus further. The Trumps' son Barron, who lives at the White House, tested negative.
Trump has spent much of the year downplaying the threat of the virus, rarely wearing a protective mask and urging states and cities to “reopen” and reduce or eliminate shutdown rules.
Both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have tested negative, their campaign said. Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus Friday morning and “remains in good health,” his spokesman said.
Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was with him and many others on Saturday and has been on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers, also tested negative, the White House said.
Trump's diagnosis was sure to have a destabilizing effect in Washington and around the world, raising questions about how far the virus has spread through the highest levels of U.S. government. Hours before Trump announced he had contracted the virus, the White House said a top aide who had traveled with him during the week had tested positive.
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Yeah, mostly snark from the left-leaning members of my family on Facebook. But, karma, you know: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-tests-negative-for-covid-19/ar-BB19Ed7n?ocid=uxbndlbing
You’d think the White House has a ventilator
If they win the election we’ll be in the throes of Civil War 2, cleaning them out.
Yes, the docs on FNC (Dr. Ronny Jackson, Dr. Siegel, Dr. Marty McCary, Dr. Janette Neishwhat (sp?), Dr. Oz, etc.) have been reporting that Trump's BMI is 30 or so.
Praying hard for President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump!
I have high confidence they'll be just fine, as Louie Gohmert is now.
Unfortunately, due to social media, I don’t have to imagine.
Either typical CNN propaganda or, more likely, brought there just for worst case scenario planning.
Hope Hicks? Who’s Hope Hicks...
Imagine the joy this brings the left.
This article is written by the Fake Newser who falsely claimed Trump removed the MLK bust from the oval office. It drips with Democrat spin.
FOX 35 News reported President Donald Trump would be holding a virtual campaign rally on Friday evening in lieu of a physical appearance in Sanford, Florida as he had originally planned. The Trump Campaign has notified FOX 35 News that there will not be a virtual rally. The Sanford rally was canceled after the president and first lady tested positive for the coronavirus.
Like there wasn’t one there already??
“CNN just said a ventilator has been delivered to the white house”
“A” ventilator. Are POTUS and FLOTUS going to flip a coin?
Thanks for posting that Dr P regimen.
Interesting!
“Trump has spent much of the year downplaying the threat of the virus,”
I don’t think that’s true. He had friends die from it and has said it’s a “plague” and “terrible. If being realistic and trusting the facts/science = “ downplaying, then I guess we know where the authors are coming from.
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“Apparently, lethargy”
Maybe that’s why he didn’t seem like himself at the debate — a bit off.
“he’s overweight, but not obsese”
Doe any one of us know what he looks like without the Kevlar vest?
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