Posted on 10/02/2020 10:31:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is experiencing mild symptoms after testing positive for the coronavirus, administration officials said on Friday, as the White House and presidential election campaign scrambled to adjust to the bombshell development.
Trump, who has played down the threat of the coronavirus pandemic from the outset, said he and his wife Melania had tested positive for the deadly virus and were going into quarantine. Their son Barron had tested negative, a White House official said.
Trump is not incapacitated and is working in isolation to avoid infecting others, a White House official said. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said the president, 74, was exhibiting mild symptoms. They gave no more details.
“We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump said in a tweet early on Friday morning.
Wall Street tumbled at news of one of the biggest health scares involving an American president for decades, with the S&P 500 plunging more than %1.5 at the opening.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife tested negative, a Pence spokesman said. The White House official said Pence would work from his own residence several miles from the White House and his staff was being kept separated from Trump’s staff “out of an abundance of caution.”
Pence, 61, a conservative former U.S. lawmaker and Indiana governor, would take over if Trump were to become incapacitated.
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Oh but, they did have get the word “incapacitated “ in there...
Does he have a Youtube channel?
I hope he backs off enough to get some rest. I sometimes worry that he works too hard for us.
I’m having fun imagining a herd of nasty, little corona balls leaving a vapor trail, fleeing the White House, going “yipe, yipe, yipe”, and heading straight for easier pickings at the WaPo.
Potus is having a VIRTUAL RALLY TONIGHT instead of going to Orlando. See this:
Limbaugh, you and POTUS are on the same wavelength....
Wow!
When he’s feeling up to it, he should do a short video, maybe 5 minutes, as an “update” and to let folks know that despite the situation, it’s “business as usual” as much as it it can be.
He never gives up, never gives in. I wish I was much more like Potus! ;)
Why say stuff like this? I had no thought that he was incapacitated but now I worry a tad.
How about Potus doing a virtual rally tonight? (see #6)
“Potus is having a VIRTUAL RALLY TONIGHT instead of going to Orlando.”
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Com’n, Man! Biden could do that! Well, if he could find 5 people who would attend, that is......
The chance of Trump having a bad time with this is about .1% or one out of a thousand. even at his age. So I expect he will get out of this like a general leading his troupes into battle. Like Jesus being born and dying. He is not asking us to do anything he is not doing. And he is running the country, battling for re-election offer Biden and fighting the Chinese. Who is getting more done than he is.
I bet Trump shows up on Hannity tonight.
Glad to see an article free of inflammatory language, rhetoric or hyperbole. /sarc off
POTUS puts me in mind of George Washington, another man who took a licking and kept on ticking.
Or an hour long virtual rally, tonight for The Florida rally.
Trump the honey badger. He don’t give a sh*t.
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