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

[Gass3268]

Trump was not getting tested daily.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1313639367634833408?s=20

[Pyro]

https://twitter.com/HallieJackson/status/1313611970655006721?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoo...

Covid-19 came out harder against white supremacists than Donald Trump.

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1313664917212409858?s=20

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/LMartinezABC/status/1313605502069362691?s=20

That's not an important job, right?

I wouldn't think so. I mean, the President's paid guests just use him as a photo-prop, right?

[Middle-aged Europe]

The BBC has a somewhat lengthy article about the topic of:

Covid and Trump: The president's healthcare v the average American's

"Don't be afraid of it. You're going to beat it."

This was US President Donald Trump's advice to the public if they were worried about catching coronavirus.

He made the comments in a video message posted shortly after being discharged from hospital on Monday, having received treatment since his own diagnosis.

But, as many have pointed out, this was a man with a helicopter, a large medical team and experimental drug treatments at his disposal. How does the picture change for Americans with Covid-19 who do not reside at the White House?

...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54441263

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1313664917212409858?s=20

Would you believe that until now I thought Salud Carbajal was a woman?

[Roll Roons]

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1313664917212409858?s=20

Would you believe that until now I thought Salud Carbajal was a woman?

Barely anyone knows who the hell he is, so I don't blame you. There are so many random backbench Democrats from California that it's hard to keep up.

[Calthrina950]

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1313664917212409858?s=20

Would you believe that until now I thought Salud Carbajal was a woman?

Barely anyone knows who the hell he is, so I don't blame you. There are so many random backbench Democrats from California that it's hard to keep up.

I know all of their names, because of I work I've done for my personal projects. But you are correct-most of California's Democratic delegation is obscure. Due to its sheer size, and the overall Democratic dominance in the state, it contributes the largest number of Democrats of any state to the House.

[Sir Mohamed]

So, Mr. Trump has learned.... NOTHING.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313654133153583104

[The Mikado]

There are legitimate reasons why presidents conceal their illnesses with both domestic and foreign implications. There is also historic precedent where presidents are not being transparent with the health.

FDR, for example, hid both his polio and the fact that he was literally dying as he sought his fourth term.

People really need to stop their blind rage at Trump. It’s tiring.

He hid it because stigma associated with being disabled (that still exists today) and not wanting to show weakness during a war that the enemy could take advantage of.

COVID is not sentient so that's not an issue and FDR didn't hide or downplay his polio during a national polio pandemic that was actively killing people, so this comparison is a weak attempt at whataboutism.

Also, FDR didn't hide the fact that he had had polio. He founded the March of Dimes! He didn't keep his polio a secret, nor even the fact that his legs had issues. What he did do was never ever ever ever let himself get photographed that way and to make it a point to give speeches standing up with his leg braces etc. It's one thing to know in the abstract that FDR "has difficulty" walking. It's another thing to actually see a film clip or a photograph of him in a wheelchair or literally carried up a flight of stairs by the Secret Service like a sack of potatoes, and FDR's political instincts told him that that would be absolute suicide if an image like that ever got out.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1313858255534333952

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

So, Mr. Trump has learned.... NOTHING.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313654133153583104

What a strange, sad man

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1313884847270748161

A letter filled with such key medical insights as: "This morning the President said he feels great."

[CellarDoor]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1313884847270748161

A letter filled with such key medical insights as: "This morning the President said he feels great."

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1313899282265763840

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1313884847270748161
A letter filled with such key medical insights as: "This morning the President said he feels great."

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1313899282265763840

*Sigh*

I thought that was a little suspect. So basically this entire statement is BS.

How on earth did things get this bad?

[ProudModerate2]

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1313858255534333952

I just don't get it. What is with this guy?
He should stay in the residence side (center) of the White House for at least another 7 days.
Why can he not just work from there? Why increase the possibility of spreading Covid to others who work in the West Wing?
Good God!

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1313888818404171780

[Frodo]

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1313858255534333952

I just don't get it. What is with this guy?
He should stay in the residence side (center) of the White House for at least another 7 days.
Why can he not just work from there? Why increase the possibility of spreading Covid to others who work in the West Wing?
Good God!

Trump being the vindictive SOB that he is, is deliberately trying to contaminate the entire White House so that when Biden is sworn in, he and his family are going to have to have their transition team clean and decontaminate the whole complex before they can move in.

[Splash]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1313961283671281664

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1313961283671281664

There were several obvious cuts in that video. I wonder if he coughed.

[Adam Griffin]

Really been hitting the tanning spray hard...

[McGarnagle]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1313961283671281664

There were several obvious cuts in that video. I wonder if he coughed.

Narrator: He Coughed

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

Really been hitting the tanning spray hard...

Yeah, that was my first reaction too. Maybe they think that adding more spray tan will cover up how pale he is?

[Crumpets]

Really been hitting the tanning spray hard...

Yeah, that was my first reaction too. Maybe they think that adding more spray tan will cover up how pale he is?

All I was thinking about during this video was "who was that woman who got super tanned a few years ago? He looks like her." That and "oh, he must have just bought stock in whatever company makes Regeneron."

[Hammy]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1313961283671281664

There were several obvious cuts in that video. I wonder if he coughed.

Is he communicating solely by recorded video at this point? Has he made any live appearances, let alone speaking appearances, since the video where it was clear he was in pain just breathing?