Trump Has COVID megathread (update 10/24: 2 Pence staffers test positive)

[Pheurton Skeurto]

Biden needs to reverse his decision.

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1312167166158860288?s=20

Yeah, reverse the decision. Say "we made a good faith effort to be kind to the President and his team but they were not willing to show us the same kindness in return. We have no choice but to continue reminding voters about the President's record."

[Indy Texas]

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

Why only 10 days instead of 15? Because McConnell cares more about getting judges confirmed than not killing a building full of geriatrics including himself?

[Calthrina950]

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

So in just one day, we've had two more Senators (Lee and Tillis), that have been diagnosed with the virus. I predicted earlier that we could be seeing a wave of such diagnoses among prominent political figures. And it seems like I've been proven correct.

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

Why only 10 days instead of 15? Because McConnell cares more about getting judges confirmed than not killing a building full of geriatrics including himself?

Mitch McConnell is a despicable human being. He won't change his behaviors unless (and I hate saying this), he himself were to be infected by, and become seriously ill with, this virus.

[pppolitics]

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

So in just one day, we've had two more Senators (Lee and Tillis), that have been diagnosed with the virus. I predicted earlier that we could be seeing a wave of such diagnoses among prominent political figures. And it seems like I've been proven correct.

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

Why only 10 days instead of 15? Because McConnell cares more about getting judges confirmed than not killing a building full of geriatrics including himself?

Mitch McConnell is a despicable human being. He won't change his behaviors unless (and I hate saying this), he himself were to be infected by, and become seriously ill with, this virus.

I wouldn't mind it at all if the political gods give McConnell COVID-19.

[pppolitics]

Journalists who work at the White House are testing positive for Covid-19

New York (CNN Business)A widening coronavirus outbreak at the White House has left members of the media scrambling to find out if they, too, are infected.

Three journalists who work at the White House tested positive on Friday, according to a series of memos from the White House Correspondents Association.

"Given these positive cases, the president's diagnosis and positive cases among other members of the White House staff, a number of White House journalists are self-isolating pending diagnostic testing," the correspondents association said in a email to members Friday night.

A White House staffer who sits in the "lower press" area of the West Wing also received a confirmed positive result on Friday morning.

[...]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/media/journalists-white-house-covid-19/index.html

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

Why only 10 days instead of 15? Because McConnell cares more about getting judges confirmed than not killing a building full of geriatrics including himself?

That's basically why, yeah. ACB's hearings begin in 10 days, so that's why Tillis and Lee are only going to self-isolate for 10.

Now if they get seriously ill. this changes things a lot.

[dunceDude]

I'm so so traumatized by 2016 and my delusional thinking back then, but enough is enough. This election is over. The Senate is likely flipping. The President is some 21st century Paris-Hilton-meets-Mafioso type and he's in a little hospital room in Maryland right now thinking about how his breathing is getting worse.

I don't really want anyone to die but reality has just been broken for too long, and all of us stuck in the worst year of our lives while he acts like nothing's happening. Reality is asserting itself, it will continue to assert itself, and that is extremely bad news for the man staring down a disease he let destroy all of our lives as well as the worst electoral disgrace since 1980.

[morgieb]

Bleach?

[Progressive Pessimist]

Another outrage about Trump and his circle being human super-spreaders is that they may very well contribute to a spike in my state after hosting that fundraiser in Bedminster in their current condition. I hope Trump gets rejected by Somerset County by even more than his record loss for a Republican in 2016.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/McCartneyWP/status/1312191372808445953

[Edu]

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1312180888524865536?s=20

[BaldEagle1991]

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1312180888524865536?s=20

I figured the Secret Service probably advised him a million times to follow CDC guidelines and he didn't listen.

[MidwestPollster]

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1312180888524865536?s=20

I figured the Secret Service probably advised him a million times to follow CDC guidelines and he didn't listen.

Can you imagine what the ears of these secret service officers have heard since January 2017?

[dunceDude]

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1312180888524865536?s=20

I figured the Secret Service probably advised him a million times to follow CDC guidelines and he didn't listen.

Can you imagine what the ears of these secret service officers have heard since January 2017?

Conditional on like, Biden outperforming his polls by 2-3 points and winning by 11 or 12 and thus creating a consensus cultural rejection of Trump, I wonder how much stuff people like them have heard will come out.

[Hammy]

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1312180888524865536?s=20

I figured the Secret Service probably advised him a million times to follow CDC guidelines and he didn't listen.

Can you imagine what the ears of these secret service officers have heard since January 2017?

Conditional on like, Biden outperforming his polls by 2-3 points and winning by 11 or 12 and thus creating a consensus cultural rejection of Trump, I wonder how much stuff people like them have heard will come out.

Even if Biden only narrowly wins, I'm pretty sure they're aware of the profits that are open to them through book deals in which a lot of this would still come out.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

https://twitter.com/McCartneyWP/status/1312191372808445953

Oh Neptune

[pppolitics]

https://twitter.com/McCartneyWP/status/1312191372808445953

Please don't die before November 3!

Please don't die before November 3!

Please don't die before November 3!

[dunceDude]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1312208536378564609

This keeps getting worse OMFG.

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1312208536378564609

This keeps getting worse OMFG.

https://twitter.com/audreyalison/status/1312206660828491777?s=20

[dunceDude]

Trump campaign today

[JRP1994]

https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1312209537181478912

I am calling for a total & complete shutdown of the Republican Party until we figure out what's going on

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1312208536378564609

This keeps getting worse OMFG.

https://twitter.com/audreyalison/status/1312206660828491777?s=20

https://twitter.com/GarnerChristina/status/1312208019388678144?s=20

[Frodo]

Damn it.  He got away with virtually everything his entire life.  I do not want him to die before he sees election results live on television showing himself not just defeated but repudiated in a landslide by the country.  He does not deserve to be spared the mercy of knowing he died a loser.    

[Inmate Trump]

Maybe these people will FINALLY start taking this thing seriously.

Republicans have really letdown the entire country, and it’s awful that their own personal health is what it takes for them to care, but hopefully they will now.

[compucomp]

Damn it.  He got away with virtually everything his entire life.  I do not want him to die before he sees election results live on television showing himself not just defeated but repudiated in a landslide by the country.  He does not deserve that mercy.    

Based on everything I've read, dying of COVID-19 is not a merciful end.