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Trump, Melania Test Positive for COVID-19
President Trump took to Twitter just before 1 a.m. ET to announce that both he and the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19.
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
Sean Conley, the Physician to the President, released the following statement:
I release the following information with the permission of President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
This evening I received confirmation that both President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The President and the First Lady are both well at this time and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence.
The White House medical team and I will maintain a vigilant watch, and I appreciate the support provided by some of our country’s greatest medical professionals and institutions. Rest assured I expect the President to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering, and I will keep you updated on any future developments.
Get well soon, President and First Lady!
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It would be so 2020 though.
Yes, I’ve got to say that Trump looks a little heavier than he did four years ago, but he seems to have two cuts of suits: one for normal wear at say WH pressers, and one wider for when he’s out and about to fit over his ballistic protection which makes him look fatter.
I’ve never ‘flagged’ anyone, until today. I flagged TWO comments in the first page! Come on, people—let’s not become Twitter!
Or at least, she WAS…
Huh…funny I’m pretty sure others have wished for the death of other political leaders on this site I don’t recall those being moderated? What are we saying Trump is more deserving of sympathy than his best friend Kim Jong Un? Make up your minds people.
I’m feeling like the smartest person on the planet right now.
Twenty years ago (which means I can’t find it today), I was up all night one night with a very bad cold, and I did what we all do when we can’t sleep: I went onto the Internet to pass the time. I looked up “colds,” and I came across a hilarious page written by a British doctor on what it means to get a “cold,” how we react. One thing he said that has stayed with me ever since is that we get kind of hyper the day before we start experiencing cold symptoms like a cough or a runny nose. That’s because our immune system yesterday realized there was a foreign invader and mounted a defense. He said it’s the immune system flipping on every electrical switch in the body all at once.
I did not watch the debate because I was working, but when I started reading the reports on Wednesday morning in which people were talking about Trump’s hyper behavior during the debate, my first thought was, “Uh oh, He’s got the virus.” (This virus acts like the “common cold” viruses in most ways.)
Wow, did I call that one. :-) :-)
I pray he and Melania recover soon.
Wishing death on our enemies is comparable to wishing death on our President? Come on, man. You can’t possibly be that dense.
Did you see the recent South Park episode?
Updated now to say “mild symptoms “.
No, I didn’t. I’ve never seen that show. But I’ve been saying “Go lick a pangolin” since February.
And if they never get bad symptoms, we know what the cry from the left will be?
“White privilege!”
I don’t watch South Park either. But it seems like they copied it from you!
Wouldn’t be the first time. Star Trek TNG/DS9/Voyager used to tap into my brain for plot ideas all the time. I’d find myself thinking “they should do an episode where _________ happens . . .” and then within the next week or two, exactly that plot would appear. It was happening with such frequency, I began to wonder . . .
And that could have changed nothing.
And you could learn to accept the truth without trying to shout it down. The whole Trump schtick is to say nasty, outrageous things. When people complain, Trumpsters send up a chorus of “you’re pearl clutching,” “you’re reaching for your fainting couch,” “you’ve got your dress over your head,” and “you’re a girly man.” But point out that Trump has done something stupid and Trumpsters get the vapors. Geez. Man up.
I have a “shtick”? When that happen? And I am not even Jewish.
It will be even more entertaining to watch Maddow beg forgiveness from the Maoist mob in her struggle session.
I’d prefer those comments stayed. Are they sickening? Yes. Let’s not bail out the individuals who expressed them.
“Orange privilege!”
Great. Prove, then, that he got it because he didn’t wear a mask or social-distance enough. If that’s the “truth” then prove it.
My sister-in-law wore a mask every time she went out in public. She lives surrounded by miles and miles of state forest so she is naturally socially-distant from everyone. Tell me how she got it. She doesn’t know, but since you’re so smart, you must know the truth.
Mask-shaming is awful. It’s like a cult.
You do. That’s what makes you such a lovable curmudgeon.
One member has made over 20 comments on this post. That is a bit excessive.
Gary, maybe you’d find bat soup more to your liking? No accounting for taste…..
You are keeping score, Gary? You?
I always thought Galt was Jewish. Or am I meshugana?
I am paying for this microphone.
Masking is a neurotic health cult. Watch people look at you on the street, even while you’re wearing a mask, and they dodge out of the way. Weird.
Americans died because Trump turned wearing masks into a political issue rather than a matter of common sense.
Damn it FJ/JG,
I like your schtick. I grant you the full right to employ “schtick” as necessary.
Regards,
Jim