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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
A report from c|net adds:
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in a memorandum late Thursday that the president and first lady were "both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence."
The announcement of the president and first lady's positive coronavirus test results came just hours after the revelation that top White House aide Hope Hicks had tested positive for the virus as well. The president indicated in an earlier tweet that he and the first lady had begun the quarantine process.
Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19
c0lo adds: Dow futures plunge more than 500 points after Trump says he tested positive for coronavirus
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @06:41AM (11 children)
We know this is going to be a comment magnet, with sparks flying when rabid anti-Trump users try to condemn him as getting just rewards for being an "unbeliever", while Trump supporters counter with unmasking their professed secular reasonability and exposing them as adherents of a modernized religion.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @06:45AM (5 children)
Oh, and of course wishes for his demise from "reasonable" democrats.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Friday October 02 2020, @07:49AM
Sir, you left your projector on. Wouldn't want you to have a dim bulb.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @08:51AM (2 children)
Oh, I'm not a Democrat, or religious, but I'm praying he croaks ASAP, have been since 2016.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday October 02 2020, @01:54PM
That's a bad idea. Better he just becomes incapacitated and refuses to admit it. And believes he's going to be better soon. And his supporters in congress believe that he's not incapacitated (at least until Pence is also clearly incapacitated).
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @10:57PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp6aygmvzM4&t=68 [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @04:19PM
I'll just leave this here: Tea Party Crowd Cheers Letting Uninsured Die [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday October 02 2020, @04:58PM (1 child)
We're not mad at him that he's an "unbeliever". We're mad at him because he:
- threw away the previous administration's pandemic response plans [vanityfair.com].
- knew the gravity of the situation and lied about it to the public [youtube.com].
- used the power of the federal government to steal necessary medical equipment from hospitals and states that tried to order it [latimes.com], an act that got some doctors and nurses as well as non-medical patients killed. (One of the doctors directly affected by this move was my sister, who was lucky enough to have access to backup equipment that was current in the 1940's or so.)
- constantly contradicted his own medical experts [go.com], turning what should have been a non-partisan public health effort into a very partisan argument over whether you believe the president or people who actually know what they're talking about. Oh, which has also made the problem far bigger and last far longer than it should have.
- took money allocated for small business loans, blocked oversight on where the money was going [politico.com], and redirected it to large businesses, some of which were his own [wsfa.com], causing thousands of small businesses to be forced to close.
- shut down unemployment benefits for the roughly 40 million people laid off as a result of Covid-19 [washingtonpost.com], likely leading to millions of foreclosures and evictions [aspeninstitute.org]. Oh, which just makes the economic problems even worse, and also got more workers infected and/or killed.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @08:36PM
He's the duly elected president. The nation gave him the power to revise government plans.
He was advised and made his decision on what he thought best for the country. As elected politicians are supposed to do.
The medical supplies went to where governors demonstrated a need to serve the greatest number of people. Like NYC. Of course, the need never materialized, but that is something you should take up with Cuomo.
We elect politicians to make decisions for us, not doctors with histories of sitting in their offices screwing up disease response for 30+ years.
Businesses were forced to close due to state action. Large businesses having to lay off their employees can also have a disastrous effect on the local economy. Just remember Bush and Obama giving money to bail out banks and General Motors.
State governments killing the economy for political purposes should not count on federal funding to bail them out for their bad decisions.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @07:11PM (2 children)
I'm the AC you're replying to. I think civility is important and I think it crosses lines to wish something like ARDS on anyone. I'm not comfortable with it. It's a false dichotomy to assume that disavowing such rhetoric means I'm a Trump supporter.
1) I'm going to vote for Joe Biden. I want Trump removed from office, either through the election or by impeaching him for his many crimes.
2) Trump is a racist. He's a white supremacist. Racism and white supremacy are intrinsically evil and must ALWAYS be condemned without reservation. Full stop.
3) Trump and his administration are responsible for an array of human rights violations. These include the atrocities in the ICE concentration camps and gassing protesters in Lafayette Square for Trump's photo op. Trump, Pence, and other top officials in the administration should be tried for crimes against humanity. I want to put the Trump administration on trial, either in federal court or using the precedent of the Nuremberg trials.
4) It's very clear that the Trump family has engaged in a variety of fraud on a massive scale for decades. The complicit parties should be prosecuted and be forced to repay everyone they've defrauded.
I'm not a defender of Trump. I want Trump removed from office by measures consistent with the Constitution, then for him to be brought ot justice for his many crimes.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @07:26PM (1 child)
"Racism and white supremacy are intrinsically evil and must ALWAYS be condemned without reservation. Full stop."
There's nothing wrong with "racism". The term was only invented by Jews to demonize any whites who try and resist the White Genocide they have been perpetrating for centuries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 02 2020, @09:55PM
Point made. Now somebody punch this fucking Nazi in the face. A kick to the gonads would also not be out of order.