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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The debate was on Tuesday. The fundraiser was on Thursday.
Jackass Joe Biden offered prayers to POTUS & FLOTUS, said not time for politics, then immediately went into saying it is a reminder to wear masks and listen to experts! I hope it boomerangs on him.
A BMI alone means nothing. There are plenty of people with “normal” BMI who look like bones and blubber with very little muscle mass and in poor health and there are those with a BMI of thirty or more who are muscular and powerful. Of course there are also those of low BMI who are weak and some who are very strong.
My own BMI is 28.6 and I weigh 235, people who don’t know me usually guess my weight at around 190. I am 76 and on 100 percent disability from VA for pulmonary fibrosis and am on borrowed time, having outlived my prognosis by two months at this point. Eight years ago I weighed 270 for a BMI of 32.9 at age 68 and was the strongest man in the neighborhood.
NEW: 3 journalists who work at the White House have tested positive for coronavirus - CNN
God bless!
Is the regular flu we have every winter a “deadly virus” too? If not, why not?
Apparently that device that scans your forehead is notoriously inaccurate. Maybe he needed better testing early on?
public relations executive and political advisor serving as a senior counselor to President Donald.
She tested positive after the flight back to DC. Knew Trump was next.
Another lefty news site says eleven more who were at the debate tested positive!
At least everyone is being tested and contact-traced.
I wonder how all the other Trump kids are, besides Barron?
All I remember is Herman Cain went to a rally, and died quickly.
Herman Cain had cancer. And cancer treatment essentially destroys your immune system.
President Trump has no serious underlying issues: slightly overweight, but no heart problems, no diabetes, no nothing.
on lefty FB and Twitter snarky or gloating messages I suggest you do what I did today, report their post as abusive and they will be in FB or Twitter jail for a couple of weeks
Is there any indication President Trump and Melania are following this regimen?
Good point. He is lean and fit and known to be a bit of health nut—lots of salads, etc.
So you are spot on.
welcome to the new Age Of Germaphobia
and anyone with credentials or otherwise who dares to expose the COVID19 trillion$ extortion racket for what it is will be silenced
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