Last night, I went to bed knowing that Hope Hicks, who traveled with President Trump Wednesday, had been diagnosed with COVID-19. Surely, I thought, Trump will not have caught the virus. He has managed to avoid contracting it despite people in his inner circle, like Kimberly Guilfoyle, contracting the virus.
Well, I woke up this morning to discover I was wrong. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump both have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849?s=20
As too many Americans have done this year, @potus & I are quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19. We are feeling good & I have postponed all upcoming engagements. Please be sure you are staying safe & we will all get through this together.
— Melania Trump 45 Archived (@FLOTUS45) October 2, 2020
The White House has released this statement from President Trump’s physician, confirming that both the president and First Lady have tested positive for Covid-19. pic.twitter.com/4TUomlEChz
— Karin Caifa (@karincaifaCNN) October 2, 2020
How’s THAT for an October surprise? What more can you throw at us, 2020?!
Many have wished the Trumps well, including one of the few classy Democrats left on the planet, Tulsi Gabbard.
My husband Abraham and I offer our best wishes and aloha to President @realDonaldTrump and the First Lady @FLOTUS and praying for their speedy recovery. We also send our best wishes to Ivanka, Tiffany, Donald Trump Jr., Eric, and Barron during this difficult time. #TrumpHasCovid
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 2, 2020
My best wishes to President Trump and the First Lady. Hope they both have a speedy recovery from coronavirus.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) October 2, 2020
Like millions of Israelis, Sara and I are thinking of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump and wish our friends a full and speedy recovery. https://t.co/UcxQpsxBLE
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) October 2, 2020
I wish President Donald Trump @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS a speedy recovery. Our prayers and best wishes are with you during this time.
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) October 2, 2020
Rush Limbaugh has famously said, “liberalism is a mental disorder.” No truer thing has he ever spoken. Evidence of this mental illness is abundant on Twitter today after Trump’s announcement. It is not even in me today to spread their vile hatred by posting any of the disgusting comments.
I will, however, share with you Don Lemon’s reaction. He is just gross.
Early Friday on CNN, host Don Lemon asked network chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta to speculate if this might be a “moment of reckoning” for President Donald Trump and his administration given his and first lady Melanie Trump’s positive test for COVID-19.
“[I]s this a moment of reckoning for the president and this administration?” Lemon said. “For all of the — all of the pretending or looking the other way and trying to convince people otherwise of the science, for whatever reason — whether it was for, to make sure that he was re-elected, to make sure that he had high standing with the public, or just to — for whatever reason. because of the economy. is this now a moment of reckoning that — yes, this is real. it is not a hoax. it doesn’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. It is time to take this seriously, and all the preventative measures that the scientists, the doctors, like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, have been touting for so long?”
We wish and pray for President Trump and Melania’s swift recovery.
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