Trump’s carelessness finally caught up to him….
We hope he comes thru ok….
This will mean he has no travel for few weeks….
The reports are he has ‘cold like symptoms ‘…..
It is unknown how it will affect his efforts to get re-elected…
The unusualness of Donald Trump’s presidency continues….
Mike Pence has tested negative….
Will Trump NOW tell people to wear masks and distance?
President Trump is showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus, but mild ones, according to two people familiar with his condition.
The president, who said on Thursday night that he had tested positive for the virus, has had what one person described as coldlike symptoms. At a fund-raiser he attended at his golf club at Bedminster, N.J., on Thursday, where one attendee said the president came in contact with about 100 people, he seemed lethargic.
A person briefed on the matter said that Mr. Trump fell asleep at one point on Air Force One on the way back from a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday night.
A White House official said that as of Thursday night, the president’s treatment plan was still being discussed. So was a possible national address or a videotaped statement from the president to demonstrate that he was functioning and that the government is uninterrupted.
The disclosure upended the presidential race in an instant, inviting significant questions about his cavalier attitude toward the pandemic and the future of his campaign just 32 days before the election.
Mr. Trump, who for months has played down the seriousness of the virus and hours earlier on Thursday night told an audience that “the end of the pandemic is in sight,” will quarantine in the White House for an unspecified period of time, forcing him to withdraw at least temporarily from the campaign trail only 32 days before the election on Nov. 3.
Trailing in the polls, the president in recent weeks has increasingly held crowded campaign events in defiance of public health guidelines and sometimes state and local governments. When he accepted the nomination on the final day of the Republican National Convention, he invited more than 1,000 supporters to the South Lawn of the White House and has held a number of rallies around the country since, often with hundreds and even thousands of people jammed into tight spaces, many if not most without masks.
His dramatic disclosure came in a Twitter message just before 1 a.m. after a suspenseful evening following reports that Mr. Trump’s close adviser Hope Hicks had tested positive….
Note….
This NOT an excuse to delay or put off the November 3rd election….
Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty
For the sake of public confidence and even national security, it is crucial that public briefings on the president’s condition come from medical personnel at Walter Reed, and not from White House officials.
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
It can seem crass to think about politics right now, but in this election the survival of democracy is on the line. And it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the odds of that survival went up today 1/
Contact tracing?….
Mike Pence is negative….
Biden is being tested….
The media is going over how many (a LOT) of people Trump and wife have been around withOUT masks….
The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic
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“Trump believed that taking the coronavirus seriously would panic the markets, threatening his presidency and his chance at reelection. Now his own denialism has placed both his presidency and his campaign in peril,” writes
@GrahamDavidA
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
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@atrupar
“It affects virtually nobody,” Trump says of the coronavirus, which has now killed 200,000 Americans and counting
No diss of Trump….
But this IS one of the reason he shouldn’t be President…
He was ALL wrong on the virus ….
Larry Sabato
“This changes everything!” says an excited TV anchor. NO IT DOESN’T. Trump’s voters will never defect, and the majority of Americans who oppose Trump see his irresponsibility on masks and serious failures on COVID to be underlined by his illness.#TrumpCovid
Breaking…..
Joe and Jill Biden test NEGATIVE…
It’s a Chinese HOAX !!! pushed by the Fake liberal Media …
… isn’t it ?
(Of course, you could always ask Dr Fauci.)
Joe Biden has tested negative.
Months ago, when Trump was first tested, I joked that he Tweeted as follows:
“I just took the test and everything was very. very positive. Beautifully positive results. The people who looked at the test said that they had never seen anyone with such positive results.”
Hopefully, DJT is getting some rest and will show the world he is ok by Tweeting something nasty and un-Presidential soon.
Sen Mike Lee of Utah has tested positive. If this health scare torpedos the already rushed appointment of a SC Justice who wants to overturn health care for millions of Americans it will bw poetic justice.
GOP Senator Tests Positive
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) announced he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett met with Lee on Tuesday and neither of them wore face masks.
RNC Chair Tests Positive
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the New York Times reports.
She has “mild” symptoms and was last with President Trump a week ago.
I mean if Trump didn’t see the Vultures Circling before…the whole damn flock is above head now and he can’t miss that…this is the worse possible news for the Trump admin right before the election…a month before and the whole of washington is in full out break mode…
The President is being taken to Walter Reed Hospital.
Could be precautionary.
Frankly I’m surprised they waited this long.
I remember that Lyndon Johnson was taken there due to a bad upper respiratory infection.Of course he had a heart condition and had previously suffered a heart attack.
However with coronavirus ,hospitalization Takes on more dire connotations.
I hope he is not too sick and this is simply precautionary.This is such a horrible disease in its unpredictability .
I utterly detest the man but he has a family and a relatively young son and he is a fellow human being.
I hope he gets well.
They said he will be staying there for several days. Of course there is a medical unit in the White House also.
Reminds of when they said Boris Johnson was going for testing. The next day they said he was in the ICU.. and of course he recovered.
The morbidity rate for those in Trumps age group is around 8% I read.
So he has a 92% chance of recovery ; however, oftentimes it takes weeks or even months.
Far better odds than winning reelection .
His recovery could take until the election….
He may win sympathy, but I don’t see many sympathy votes.
There are many Republican supporters of Trump who privately and secretly hope a change winds up on the top of the ballot. Of course, many have already voted.
The entire Trump era has felt like some sort of scripted drama with twists and turns since the moment he came down the escalator,
If this were merely a tv show, the Helicopter on the White House Lawn would be the season finale cliffhanger.
CG your cold blooded…”92% chance of recovery, better than his election hopes”…wow…I applaud you for ruthlessness…
But seriously his likelyhood for survival at his age is much higher than 92 percent…he has already been given Regerneron’s antibody cocktail and they will be treating him with all sorts of meds to manage this…No one who has had Coronavirus will probably get as good a treatment as him…so with all that medical attention I think 45 will live…and will hopefully be humbled by this experience…that I am much less sure of…you already had his former doctor running for a Texas seat say that him getting the virus and being out at all these events is him leading by example…that is fucking nuts
bdog?
I would like to know why he went to the hospital in such a hurry right before the virus hit….
Me thinks there is more to this story….
This IS the most stupidest and most fucked thing Trump HAS done so far….
POLITICO
@politico
The possibility that Trump’s entourage had become traveling #Covid superspreaders is a nightmare scenario for officials in Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — four states where he’s rallied, debated or fundraised in the past week
TweetStreet
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@politico
For some reason, Republicans thought the virus only infected Democrats. Surprise, it doesn’t.
The Barret roll out seems to be a super spreader event