Trump, Melania test positive for coronavirus, president vows to bring quarantine 'immediately'

[aggiesal]

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Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, a stunning development that came hours after he confirmed one of his longest-serving aides with whom he had recently traveled also received a positive test result.

The revelation had implications for the president's health, the administration's response to the pandemic and also the Nov. 3 election, during which Trump has leaned on states to reopen and has claimed that the nation is "turning the corner" on the virus.

"Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19," Trump tweeted early Friday morning. "We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!"

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/02/trump-melania-test-positive-coronavirus/5891100002/

[Algernon Moncrieff]

1. Cue the GOP calls to delay the election in 3...2...1....

You know it's coming.

[Traildogbob]

9. Fuck that

We need to fill that seat like they did RBG’s. Before he is cold.

[AmyStrange]

2. Going for the sympathy vote?

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Maybe he's lying?

The poster above me suggested that the republicans will delay the election, but why?

They might be right, but still, why?

Because the president's sick? He could die?

October surprise?
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[VMA131Marine]

3. Trump is 74 years old, obese, and with medical issues

He is the definition of high risk

[BigmanPigman]

17. Such a shame

[flibbitygiblets]

4. So, wait, the hydroxy didn't work?

[AmyStrange]

6. Ok, that's funny

[aggiesal]

11. You beat me to it. ...

He can no longer say that hydrochloroquine works.

[HuskyOffset]

5. BREAKING NEWS: Corona virus jumps species, infects orange (nt)

[AmyStrange]

7. ...infects Orange Spermazoid

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That's my favorite one.
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[yuiyoshida]

8. ITS GONNA KILL HIM....

and it would be karma if the mess he created came back to kick his ass!

[Traildogbob]

14. Socialism

Will keep him alive. He has the very best health care and access to the best hospitals and doctors in the world. Us, that PAY TAXES will foot the bill. He will have zero co-pay and zero out of pocket costs. While over 7 million could go bankrupt with medical bills. His doing.

[yuiyoshida]

16. He eats McDonalds, is over weight - his age

The Virus won’t care. It will destroy him.

[Traildogbob]

18. He's gonna stroke

With all these pundits calling him obese over and over.

[yuiyoshida]

20. and look at the long haulers. Many of them

have scared heart and scared lungs...from this... He is a dead man walking.

[Traildogbob]

21. Some victims

Have had amputations of extremities from blood flow issues. If he loses a limb, maybe making fun of disabilities will not be something we have to endure him doing any more.

[Mendocino]

10. I certainly hope that

Joe Biden wasn't any closer than the podiums at the debate.

[Traildogbob]

15. But Trump

Was screaming and spewing spit for many feet. When he forms those anus lips into a tight hole, that can projectile spit for 20 feet.

[BlueWavePsych]

12. Oh no. I'm speechless.

[appleannie1]

13. Let's send him a bottle of Clorox and a hypodermic needle.

And maybe a tubular UV light he can stick up his butt incase he has the diarrhea symptom.

[BlueWavePsych]

19. Is IT symptomatic?

[applegrove]

22. LOCKING

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