Trump and Melania test positive test positive for Covid 19

[marting]

Hope Hicks, a close advisor to Trump and Kushner tested positive. She was on Air Force 1 with Trump and his entourage Tues and Wed. She is symptomatic. No masks.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Hope Hicks, a close advisor to Trump and Kushner tested positive. She was on Air Force 1 with Trump and his entourage Tues and Wed. She is symptomatic. No masks.

Oh gawd I hope she's a superspreader!

CNN: Trump says he and first lady will begin 'quarantine process' after top aide Hope Hicks tests positive for Covid-19

Hicks has traveled with the President multiple times recently, including to the debate in Cleveland on Tuesday, and was seen boarding Marine One, along with several other of the President's closest aides -- Jared Kushner, Dan Scavino and Nicholas Luna -- none of whom wore masks, on Wednesday as Trump was heading to a campaign rally in Minnesota.

She tested positive but somewhere there's a report she now has symptoms.

Here we go:

A source close to Hicks told CNN that she is experiencing symptoms and is back in Washington. It is unclear how severe her symptoms are at this point. CNN has reached out to Hicks for comment.

So Tues she might have been highly contagious.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Given that at white house meetings no one but Trump is allowed to open their mouths, Adderall Addict is probably safe.

 

[Babbylonian]

The best possible scenario is Trump dropping dead on election day and, of course, losing. I don't think Pence has the stones to **** everyone while a lame duck, whereas Trump will take a flamethrower to everything.

 

[AnonyMoose]

Just now officially announced on tv, MSNBC news:

Both POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive for coronavirus.



Edited to add:

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Just now officially announced on tv, MSNBC news:

Both POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive for coronavirus.

OMG! Can't find it in print yet.

 

[Craig4]

YESSS!!!!


I hope the career professional staff and household staff are okay and test negative.

 

[AnonyMoose]

Yup.

Game changer!

 

[timhau]

I like presidents who don't get sick.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Here we go:

Trump Tweets his and Melanie's tests are positive.

 

[Aridas]

Just now officially announced on tv, MSNBC news:

Both POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive for coronavirus.

I'm not going to celebrate this, myself, but it would be nice if this ended up spurring the Trump Administration to take things more seriously.

 

[Stacyhs]

Both test positive for covid. Can't say I'm surprised.

 

[varwoche]

Unbelievable. If this was fiction, it would be laughed out of the publishing house. It breaks the surreality meter into microscopic shards.

(It's the plot line that's unbelievable. Him catching covid is not at all unusual given scientific reality and his behaviour.)

 

[timhau]

I'm not going to celebrate this, myself, but it would be nice if this ended up spurring the Trump Administration to take things more seriously.

Unlikely. Why bother learning from experience when you can just lie?

 

[Craig4]

Pence was with Trump in the Oval Office this week. I hope the career and household staff are okay.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I'm not going to celebrate this, myself, but it would be nice if this ended up spurring the Trump Administration to take things more seriously.

I'd be happy if it simply stops his efforts to cheat on the election.

 

[lionking]

Trust Trump to put an exclamation mark on a year of misery and disaster....

 

[AnonyMoose]

I'm not going to celebrate this, myself, but it would be nice if this ended up spurring the Trump Administration to take things more seriously.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the schadenfraude.

This forces the fat pig to stay quarantined... which means no more rallies... which means less people dying as a domino effect from the dumb ***** that go to the fat pig's rallies.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Do we know anything about the accuracy of the test?

I remember the WH having a rapid test that has a crazy high false positive rate.

 

[Stacyhs]

They're going into quarantine. Considering he's elderly and overweight, who know how he'll do, but then again, he's the the healthiest president to ever take office in the history of the presidency.