Trump and First Lady Test Positive For COVID-19

Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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The White House tried to reassure Americans on Friday that President Donald Trump was still working from isolation, after his bombshell announcement that he had caught the coronavirus threw the administration and presidential race into uncertainty.


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.

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.

“The president is not incapacitated. He is actually working from the residence,” a senior White House official said.

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 and his staff was being kept separated from Trump’s staff “out of an abundance of caution”.

But the official acknowledged that the president’s illness would force him to cancel travel plans with just 31 days left to go until the presidential election. Polls show Trump trailing his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.

“We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump said in a tweet early on Friday morning.


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, that sales gimmick managed to rattle an old dino who'd rather not see socialism destroy this country during my lifetime.
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  • Posted by Lucky 3 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "90 times more likely than young adults"
    But the figure (rate) for young adults is very very very low. It is not stated in the article.
    90 times that is very very low.

    So, just scary headline.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 3 years, 7 months ago
    Given his clinical response to treatment it is becoming apparent that the medical community is getting this virus figured out and developing treatment protocols that are effective. I read last weekend that he was given "experimental" monoclonal antibodies. Sure would like to know more about what was given to him. It is looking more and more like Covid is becoming just an annoyance. The pandemic is pretty much over. What we now have is a casedemic.
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  • Posted by term2 3 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They just look to say something bad about him. He doesnt downplay it- he just says that it shouldnt totally be the ONLY focus of our lives
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  • Posted by term2 3 years, 7 months ago
    Interesting how the press was nice to him when they thought he was going to die quickly. Once he recovered, they resumed their hatred. Pretty sick.
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  • Posted by STEVEDUNN46 3 years, 7 months ago
    i keep reading that trump keeps down playing the covid pandemic. show me where he DOWNPLAYS it.
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  • Posted by $ Commander 3 years, 7 months ago
    Trump, with mild to moderate co-morbidities, survives the DEADLY virus with only moderate prophylaxis and treatment.
    What better way to stuff the misinformation down the throat of the Deep State?
    I'll ask a serious objective question: How do we know this Positive is real and not PR?

    fight fire with fire
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  • Posted by wmiranda 3 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Given the DNC past history and propensity for deceit, fraud, violence and desperation, I've been thinking the same. I read article yesterday about Ohio Health officials tracing the infection to pre-debate when the preps were being made for the debate. Also the fact Chris Wallace and no Democrats were infected. Like I said, given Democrats desperation, I wouldn't write this off as another conspiracy theory.
    Remember, Trump said he was spied on and was ridiculed by Dems, press and anti-Trumper Republicans as a conspiracy theory. It turned out it was true and today we're are finding out the extent of the conspiracy up to and including Obama and Biden.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 7 months ago
    It's in the news--great news actually!--that Trump may be released from the hospital today.
    Not a word about the First Lady. She must be doing about as well with Trump ready to get back to work.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 3 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am trying really hard not to believe that, and yet...it's what I've been thinking ever since the announcement was made. Just. Too. Convenient.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 3 years, 7 months ago
    The best part about this is that all of Trump's people will now have developed COVID antibodies. If Biden gets COVID, he looks frail enough that he would be far more likely to succumb.
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  • Posted by JohnRandALL 3 years, 7 months ago
    I think introduced from the left. The timing is too perfect for them.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 3 years, 7 months ago
    My good friend (a former Engineer for Lockheed) said who tests the testers? If you test 100 people each day and even 1 shows up positive, how many does the tester get exposed to in a given period of time?????
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 3 years, 7 months ago
    False Positive?, Part of a Plan? or was the Real Virus introduced from the shadows of the left.

    I'm thinkin, it's part of a plan...left/right??...I have no clue, but notice, Revimere and HCQ are part of his protocols already...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 7 months ago
    IMO, the CCP is popping the corks of champagne bottles in Beijing due to their worldwide biological warfare attack striking down their primary target.
    Good to hear on the news that Trump is in good spirits and still working despite feeling fatigued; but should the CCP attack completely take him out,
    President Xi Jinping and his gang will really whoop it up. Most especially if Covid-19 can eliminate Pence too.
    Then Nutty Nancy will be president until Chinese patsy Quid Pro Quo Joe is sworn into office. Jinping's troubles with the USA shall end with Obama's Jackass Party status quo restored.
    Meanwhile, bye-bye USA.
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