Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
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Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
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Last edited by puzzld; 10-01-2020 at 10:17 PM. Reason: 19 damn it!
Originally Posted by bowieluva
President Trump and Melania Test Positive for COVID-19
https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/01/presi...us-hope-hicks/
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have both contracted the coronavirus.
The President broke the news with a tweet, saying ... "Tonight @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER."
The alarming news comes hours after we learned one of the President's aides, Hope Hicks, had tested positive. Hope had been traveling on Air Force One all week with POTUS ... going to and from the President debate in Cleveland ... and also to his rally in Minnesota.
There's no good time to contract the virus, but it comes at a particularly critical time for the President ... less than 5 weeks before Election Day.
So far, the administration is saying the Prez and Melania will remain in their White House residence while they quarantine. It's unclear right how long that will last, but typically doctors recommend 14 days.
Story developing ...
I didn't even have to blow out alllll the candles on my birthday cake!
See, nowwwww this dog shit motherfucker and his shitass family are "all in this together", but this is a hoax, remember?
So the biggest con man on the planet tested positive for a disease that is a democrat hoax?
Serves this motherfucker right. I hope he suffers, hard. I hope he's left with serious, and i mean serious recurring issues in the wake of it, too.
It couldn't have happened to a more deserving piece of shit. You don't want to follow the guidelines of the experts in infectious disease, then fuck you AND the horse you rode in on.
I'd be wrong if I said those things in hopes it would make him a better person, but tigers can't change their stripes. The people who voted for him are some of the legit dumbest most clueless and heartless sacks of dog shit on this fucking planet, and idgaf if you disagree, the proof is right in front of your eyes. The man gives net zero fucks about anyone but himself and his family.
Don't like what I have to say? I respect that. Now go fuck yourself.
So since this is a made up Democrat hoax, does that mean he and his family are having joint hallucinations that they are sick??? There must be something wrong with him then, some kind of horrible dementia...he's way too old and sick to be President.
Oh, this is just great!
Hope he didn't spit and spew all his germs on Biden and everyone at the debate! At least Biden was wearing his mask. They should have made that orange fucker wear his mask too!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...id=mailsignout
President Donald Trump mocked Democratic nominee Joe Biden for wearing a face mask at Tuesday night's presidential debate — two days before the president tested positive for COVID-19.
At the debate, Trump said he only wears a face mask if he feels he needs to.
"I don't wear face masks like him," Trump said of Biden. "Every time you see him he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away ... and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen."
Wearing a face mask or covering is one of the most effective ways of reducing the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended face coverings since April.
Just had a thought, maybe this is his way of avoiding the upcoming debates since he didn't agree to their planned rule changes that will keep him from stepping on and interrupting Biden and the moderator.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/02/ronna-...-for-covid-19/
Here is a new update the chairperson of the RNC has been tested positive for COVID-19
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel on Friday announced that she tested positive for COVID-19 — revealing her illness after President Trump contracted the virus.
McDaniel, 47, reportedly was with Trump most recently last Friday.
“After a member of her family tested positive for COVID-19, the Chairwoman was tested for the virus. On Wednesday afternoon, she got confirmation she was COVID-19 positive. She has been at her home in Michigan since last Saturday,” the RNC said in a statement.
Trump, 74, issued an after-midnight tweet early Friday announcing that he and the first lady were positive for the illness.
The president tweeted: “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!”
Trump’s close aide Hope Hicks tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday after developing symptoms during a relatively brisk 46-minute Trump campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday night.
Various other White House aides close to Hicks tested negative on Friday, including Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
McDaniel is a niece of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and took the helm at the RNC in 2017 after a stint as chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party. Trump often remarks fondly on her encouragement that he visit the state for more campaign rallies in 2016 before his upset victory there.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/media...vid/index.html
Turns out Trump is out of 3 people reported positive for COVID-19 so far.
"She did test positive. I just heard about this. She tested positive," Trump said.
He didn't elaborate on when he heard, but he made it sound like late-breaking news, and if true — and perhaps even more if not true — that impression he gave is relevant to the timeline of Covid-19's spread within Trump's inner circle.
"She is a hard worker," Trump said, "a lot of masks, she wears masks a lot. But she tested positive."
Trump may not have intended this, but his use of the word "but" — saying Hicks frequently wore a mask "but she tested positive" — is in line with his long-expressed skepticism about masks. It is also, as he should know, contrary to the point of wearing a mask, which is primarily to protect an infected wearer from spreading the virus to others.
Then, in the call with Hannity, Trump volunteered some information about his own health: "I just went out with the test, I'll see, 'cause, you know, we spend a lot of time — and the first lady just went out with a test also." He seemed to be acknowledging close contact with Hicks. "So whether we quarantine, or whether we have it, I don't know," he said.
His tweet announcing that he and his wife had both tested positive came just three hours later.
On the phone with Hannity, Trump then laid out something amounting to a defense of Hicks and any other White House aide who tests positive for the coronavirus: "You know, it's very hard — when you're with soldiers, when you're with airmen, when you're with the Marines, and the police officers — I'm with them so much. And when they come over to you, it's very hard to say, 'Stay back, stay back.'"
He laughed a little bit. "It's a tough kind of a situation," he said, "it's a terrible thing. So I just went for a test, and we will see what happens. I mean, who knows." That's a default statement of Trump's — "we will see what happens" — that he sometimes just uses to fill the space between sentences.
"You know Hope very well, she is fantastic," Trump continued, "and she has done a great job. But it is very, very hard when you are with people from the military, or from law enforcement, and they come over to you and they want to hug you and kiss you because we really have done a good job for them. You get close, and things happen."
Trump's comments were interpreted by some listeners as assigning blame. "Yes," CNN anchor Brianna Keilar wrote on Twitter, "the president is pointing the finger at the military and law enforcement as the people from whom Hope Hicks likely contracted coronavirus."
Trump circled back around to this explanation, really an excuse for defying social distancing guidelines, a third time: "You have to treat our people great. You can't say 'Stay away, stay away.' They come up to you, they have such love with what we've done for them. There's such love. You have to treat our people great."
Then Trump began to answer a question from Hannity about vaccines and therapeutics. Trump generically said that "I think the vaccines are coming quickly," and then he baselessly suggested that some drug companies don't want to provide a vaccine until after the election for political reasons.
Trump concluded by saying again that he was awaiting his test result: "I will get my test back either tonight or tomorrow morning, but I spend a lot of time with Hope and so does the first lady, and she's tremendous." He said "I was a little surprised" when Hicks tested positive, and again justified her socialization: "She is a very warm person, she has a hard time — when soldiers and law enforcement come up to her, you know, she wants to treat them great, not say 'Stay away, I can't get near you.' It's a very, very tough disease."
There was a note of resignation in his voice as he said "it's a very, very tough disease."
Hannity then steered the conversation to much happier territory for Trump: the boogeyman of voter fraud.
At 1:01 a.m. ET, an overnight Fox News anchor interrupted a rebroadcast of Hannity's show with breaking news: The president had the virus.
I thought all people had to be tested before they were around the president as a precaution?
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man" -Charles Darwin
As I understand it, they do. But you can be carrying the Trump virus and able to spread it, and still test negative for some unknown period of time.
Ronna got the Rona
Yep. It's his virus. Own it, asshole!
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...9cdd401aba5617
Meadows confirms the White House knew Hicks was positive before POTUS traveled
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/polit...rus/index.htmlPressed by CNN’s Joe Johns on the timing of when the White House learned Hope Hicks had tested positive, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows conceded that people knew of her positive diagnosis before Marine One took off for New Jersey on Thursday afternoon for a fundraiser.
Some staffers, he said, were pulled from Marine One, raising further questions about why the trip proceeded, the President coming into contact with numerous supporters at his Bedminster club.
"I’m not going to get into the tick tock. I can tell you, in terms of Hope Hicks, we discovered that right as the Marine One was taking off yesterday," Meadows said. "We actually pulled some of the people that have been traveling and in close contact. The reason why it was reported out, just frankly, is that we had already started to contact tracing just prior to that event,” he said.
Multiple senior staffers told CNN's Kaitlan Collins they did not learn of Hicks' diagnosis until Thursday night, shortly before it was reported by Bloomberg News.
Meadows claimed that the White House acted quickly to inform the public of the President’s diagnosis.
“As you know, last night, even in the early hours of this morning, the minute we got a confirmatory test on the President, we felt like it was important to get the news out there at that time, and so that's why we sent out a tweet late, late or early this morning,” he said.
Meadows said the White House has "protocols in place" to mitigate risks and make it easier for people to social distance, but regardless, the virus is still contagious.
""What you have is a virus that is contagious – that certainly continues to be regardless of whatever protocol we have, that it has the ability to affect everybody," he said."
"I can tell you that what we're doing is focusing on the therapeutics, the vaccines, continuing to do that, and that doesn't change," Meadows added.
Meadows declined to say whether President Trump, who tested positive for coronavirus, is taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment he repeatedly touted despite questionable benefits. Trump, he reiterated, has “mild symptoms.
“Well, I'm not going to get into any particular treatment that he may or may not have but he has mild symptoms as we look at that the doctor will continue to provide expertise in the residence. He's in the residence now, and in a true fashion he's probably critiquing the way that I'm answering these questions,” Meadows said.
Biden tests negative for coronavirus following Trump's positive test
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, tested negative for coronavirus on Friday morning, the Bidens' doctor said, following President Donald Trump's disclosure that he had tested positive just days after the first debate.
"Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden underwent PCR testing for COVID-19 today and COVID-19 was not detected. I am reporting this out in my capacity as both Vice President Biden and Dr. Biden's primary care physician," Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor, said in a statement released by Biden's campaign.
Biden said on Twitter: "I'm happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID. Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern. I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, keep social distance, and wash your hands."
I'm happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID. Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern. I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, keep social distance, and wash your hands.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 2, 2020
Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests are considered the gold standard of coronavirus tests -- with results taking longer than 15-minute rapid tests but delivering more accurate results.
Darwin and Karma coming through for me like a BOSS.
I know, right? What the fuck, puke? Willing to take in Boston, an Irish dude and like, 17 dogs but not Ron?
Yeah. It's definitely his pandemic. He didn't cause the first cases, but he and his administration have bungled every step they might have taken to stop the spread and they and their evil minions continue to make this worse than it needed to be. SD had 747 cases yesterday and 16 deaths. For a state with as few people as we have and as much ability to distance? That's appalling. But Trumps little henchling Kristi Noem has done everything she can to make sure things spread, 4th of July, Sturgis, State Fair, School reopenings.
Yep. It's his virus. Own it, asshole!
She was smart in March and shut schools down, but then the orange devil started whispering in her ears and we see the results.
DeSantis wants so bad to get Donnie Boy's approval. He's opening everything up here in Florida. I expect a huge surge of cases and deaths to start in the next couple of weeks....although it's not like we were ever low, we'll just go sky high again.
I am sure that the Republicans will be calling out people for 'being happy' that Trump is sick, but the way I see it he's just getting back a tiny bit of what he forced on everyone else. To top that off, we'll get to pay for the best health care in the world for him, while many people had to deal with this without insurance or still pay huge bills even if they had insurance. So many people have lost their lives, and he had no real compassion for them. In fact he looked at them as hoaxers and weak, and these people's family and friends just had to put up with his snide comments and outright virus denial. So yeah, it's hard to feel sorry for him or Melania, and if he had done his job earlier and shut things down for real instead of playing at it half-heartedly, and made people wear masks, we would now be in a better situation in the economy and he might not be sick this far into this pandemic.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...e-covid-425172
Update Senator Mike Lee has been tested positive for COVID-19. Yes the thread has been hijhacked again to include congressional supporters of Trump getting COVID-19.
Sen. Mike Lee announced Friday he had tested positive for coronavirus and will quarantine for 10 days.
The Utah Republican is an integral member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Lee was at her announcement on Saturday at the White House and met with Barrett on Tuesday. He also spoke to reporters after his meeting with Barrett and attended committee meetings and party lunches.
Lee said he began experiencing symptoms similar to allergies on Thursday, but sought medical advice and was tested for the virus. He found out he was positive on Thursday.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is scheduled to begin hearings for Barrett on Oct. 12, with Republicans planning a committee vote on the nomination on Oct. 22. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that the confirmation process was moving “full steam ahead” despite the possible coronavirus outbreak in the White House.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called for a re-evaluation of that plan in light of Lee's diagnosis: "Health and safety must guide the schedule for all Senate activities, including hearings."
Lee, however, said he expected to be able to provide support for Barrett in the committee.
"I have spoken with Leader McConnell and Chairman Graham, and assured them I will be back to work in time to join my Judiciary Committee colleagues in advancing the Supreme Court nomination," Lee said in a statement.
Lee's bodyman, an aide who spends the most time in physical proximity to Lee, tested negative, according to his office.
Lee joins Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in testing positive. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) also tested positive for antibodies to the disease.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ic/5786533002/
Now a fact check just came out on how many politicians have been tested positive for COVID-19 or died or resigned.
The claim: No politicians have died or resigned due to COVID-19, or had their businesses looted
The nationwide death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has reached over 200,000 and has affected many public figures, including celebrities, athletes and politicians. But a viral meme circulating on social media claims otherwise.
“Not one politician has died from the virus, lost their job, or had their business looted,” reads a Sept. 7 Facebook meme which features a photo of actor Tommy Lee Jones. “Y’all know you’re being played right?”
USA TODAY reached out to the user for comment.
The meme was also shared by conservative news personality Ben Swann and was removed shortly after being contacted for comment. Samuel Eaton, spokesperson for Swann, told USA TODAY in an email that the meme shared has since been deleted.
However, the post had already been shared thousands of times and been reposted by other users across Facebook before being deleted.
U.S. politicians have died from the coronavirus
According to Ballotpedia, a nonprofit, nonpartisan website tracking deaths and diagnoses for politicians, eight politicians have died from COVID-19.
Among those is former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who died in late July after a battle with coronavirus
"Herman was 74. Although he was basically pretty healthy in recent years, he was still in a high-risk group because of his history with cancer," wrote Dan Calabrese, editor of Cain’s website.
Other politicians who have died from COVID-19 include South Dakota state Rep. Bob Glanzer and Louisiana state Rep. Reggie Bagala.
Michigan state Rep. Isaac Robinson died at 44 in March of a suspected coronavirus infection. He had not been tested for the virus, however, his mother said he had difficulty breathing days before his death and resisted medical attention.
Local politicians have also died due to COVID-19, including Jersey City, New Jersey, Councilman Michael Yun and St. Paul, Minnesota, Board of Education Chairwoman Marny Xiong.
Politicians who have resigned due to COVID-19
Several politicians have lost their jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has been reported that at least one politician has had his office looted.
Phil Hogan, the European Union's top trade commissioner, recently resigned after breaching Ireland’s COVID-19 restrictions when he attended a golf event with 80 people, CNN reported.
David Clark resigned from his position as New Zealand’s health minister in July after breaching his own lockdown rules and receiving criticism on the government’s response to the coronavirus, according to BBC.
Dara Calleary stepped down as agriculture minister of Ireland after attending a dinner that included more than 80 guests, The Guardian reported. In Ireland, it is an offense to hold an event with more than 50 people under COVID-19 regulations.
The Associated Press reported that state and local government health officials in the U.S. have quit or been fired over disagreements on how to handle the pandemic.
And while the meme claims that not one politician had a business looted following the death of George Floyd, it has been reported that is the case for at least one politician.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Brendan Boyle wrote on Twitter in June that his district office in Philadelphia was broken into.
Our ruling: False
The claim that not one politician has died from coronavirus, lost their job, or had their business looted is FALSE, based on our research. State and local politicians have died from the virus, and politicians globally have resigned amid the pandemic as well as public health officials in the U.S.
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