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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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No I will not forgive many Americans unless they admit to their wrongs.
I will not forgive someone who keeps saying I am a member of a cult and a racist.
Never. Never. Never.
If we are going into the fire, I will not go gently into the night.
Trump’s policies? Or the CDC/NIH infrastructure giving advice. And how did this happen?
Those who profit from division — Democrats and the Media — do not want to see us united. That’s why they work very hard to divide us. Especially by race.
If you are a US Senator and nobody has ever heard of you, then try saying something asinine.
Unfortunately, Senator What’s His Name chose to bellow his asininity on CNN where his asininity was drowned out in the constant din of asininity.
And yet the rules, at least those promulgated by many large retailers, or even states, don’t actually say “masks” let alone specify a certain quality or type. It’s just “face covering.” People just walk in with a dirty scarf or bandana or whatever over their mouth, and the stores and governments are
satisfiedplacated.That’s what I said — if people admit they were wrong to want to subject us to the Left (and I use the word “subject” advisedly, because we would no longer be free citizens), we have to be able to forgive them for having been wrong. We all need forgiveness.
Dirty scarfs and bandanas were about all we had at first, thanks to our government’s policies. At least they help block coughs and sneezes a bit and probably reduce the radius of infection.
FIFY.
The organizations are run by Trump’s people. And I remember being assured – right here on Ricochet during the 2016 election – that Trump hires only the best people.
No. I don’t. I think maybe 10-20% of Democrats fit that description. Just because the ones you describe have overly amplified voices (Thanks CNN!) doesn’t mean they constitute the majority.
But how many people at CDC/NIH were actually hired by Trump and/or only after he took office? It’s called Deep State for a reason.
Thank you, that would have been better. I actually was going to use just “satisfied” first, but changed it to “placated” while leaving the original struck out. (Notice it was not “edited.”)
If Biden wins, you can blame Trump. The President never tried to expand his base. Instead, he insisted on feeding red meat to his base and insulting everyone and anyone who didn’t fully support him. He went after Republicans who supported his policies a “mere” 95% of the time. He refused to prepare for the debate and when Biden was drowning in random words, Trump refused to keep his mouth shut. Instead, he jumped in time after time to save Biden from drowning.
Nonsense.
Trump has appealed to black and latino voters. He’s appealed to middle class blue collar Democrats with his programs.
After seeing polls of Hispanic debate-watchers and C-SPAN viewers etc, it seems like the debate was more disappointing to certain wonky types, than to most people.
What are your wrongs and will you admit to them?
As always, I will blame the lying media and the people who voted for Biden.
It is a well meaning “let’s make the people feel like they’re contributing to the betterment of mankind” and hopefully it does something which we are unable to measure, but we’ll go ahead and scold others when they don’t follow the “rules” we have know way of knowing even make a bit of difference.
I think I’ve heard of him only because he’s been saying asinine things for years now. This isn’t the first.
Funny how Trump didn’t get covid until he started wearing a mask.
The overwhelming majority of members of the Republican Party are not racists.
Demonstrably untrue. He continues to go into heavy Democrat strongholds with his rallies. He did that in 2016, too. He’ll probably win Minnesota this year (assuming Democrats don’t steal the election, which they’re already working hard at doing).
I, for one, have never said that you are a racist, nor do I believe that you are a racist.
It’s camoflage.
Trump is his own worse enemy. Biden is a terrible politician and the Democrats haven’t got a single policy that survives even cursory examination, yet Trump is managing to lose. It really is an awful situation.
Well, isn’t this an interesting thread. Some observations.
I think the President is more frustrated right now than weak. The last thing he wants to be is cooped up. There’s a campaign to run and a country to save from a dishonest, radical party hell-bent on overturning many of our freedoms and instituting various Marxist policies and cultural division with tools like Critical Race Theory which is akin to how the early Soviet state demonized the Kulaks as Jordan Peterson relates in the video below.
I’m sure that President Trump is getting the best care possible and when he’s able to beat down this virus, he’ll be even more emboldened to beat down the other deadlier virus that has perniciously spread in the body politic of America.
There are a few here on this thread who may think what I’ve alluded to is an exaggeration. I can only guess that these folks are perhaps living in the past and think we are still dealing with JFK’s, Tip O’Neill’s, or Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Democrat Party and nothing so dire as what I just described could ever happen and I’m just being hysterical or naïve.
Or they believe that somehow well-coordinated and well-funded anarchist organizations like Antifa and BLM that Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Nadler and other prominent Democrats have willfully ignored, winked at, or overtly encouraged will be able to be contained and controlled going forward for prolonged seasons of love.
Or maybe these few here on Ricochet are so consumed with a myopic hatred for Donald Trump that they are not concerned or choosing to ignore what’s been happening in America for the past several decades and particularly in the last four years.
On a personal note, I know what it’s like to be confined and sickly. I had extreme asthma attacks when I was younger and spent a good deal of time in oxygen tents in hospitals. After my tonsils were removed my asthma eventually disappeared I made a personal vow to stay out of hospitals if at all possible and I’ve been lucky in that respect. My hope and wish is that the president and the First Lady are able to resist this virus and overcome it. Donald Trump is a fighter and at this moment in history, America needs a fighter to beat back another more vile and widespread virus.
Whistling past the graveyard. Trump was awful. Biden was awful. Wallace was awful.
He should hold all his rallies on schedule and appear via a giant-screen broadcast.
My favorite book in that series!!!! I loved it the most when I was a young girl.