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Yesterday it was a personal valet to Mr. Trump that tested positive for the SARS-CoV2 virus:
A member of the military serving as one of U.S. President Donald Trump's valets has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House said Thursday. It said Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence have since tested negative and "remain in good health."
It marked the latest coronavirus scare for the president, and the first known instance where a person who has come in close proximity to the president has tested positive since several people present at his private Florida club were diagnosed with COVID-19 in early March. The valet tested positive on Wednesday, the White House said...
Today it was Mike Pence's press person:
A member of U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence's staff has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, briefly delaying his Friday flight to Iowa and prompting some fellow passengers on Air Force Two to disembark, according to a White House official...
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...U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the person who received the latest positive test was Katie Miller, 25,Pence's press secretary...
All of which got me wondering just how often the fine folks of the Trumptourage are being tested now that the caller is inside the (mostly) mask-free house:
...Trump said that some staffers who interact with him closely would now be tested daily. Pence told reporters that both he and Trump would now be tested daily as well...
And then, there was this, in which Mr. Trump seems to conflate being a little bit infected with being a little bit pregnant, or some such thing:
Enough said?
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6 comments:
That Katie Miller is the wife of trump aide and speechwriter stephen miller.
Sometimes the irony writes itself.
Keith--
Indeed it does.
Again, the caller is inside the house.
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The test I’d love to see Trump take is called an IQ test. After watching his pronouncements over the years I’m convinced the betting line on the over/under for the result should be set at the transition between double and triple digits.
I’d bet the farm on the under.
Lew--
How about all the farms?
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With all that Trump and Pence have done to ensure the virus spread as far and wide as possible and killed people it would only be fitting they caught a good case of it themselves. I don't want them dead, but hey a few weeks of COVID, might give them a whole new perspective on things. As some one said, having COVID is like breathing glass. That person recovered.
I'm Pence will simply "pray" and Trump is so arrogant, he thinks he won't get it.
Another few months in office and the rule of law will be totally gone and the poverty will be horrendous. Mexico may be glad Trump built the wall, it will keep all the American refugees out of Mexico when things get worse in the U.S.A. Trump and his gang are planning to spend $20M fighting to ensure voter suppression stays in place. So now that the virus is "in the house", hope they "enjoy" it.
There’s only one metric for tRump: can he stay immune from indictments by winning a second term (assuming Mueller’s criterion that a sitting presidunce can’t be indicted—but may be indicted for the same offences after he or she leaves the office and the attendant ‘immunity’)?
Wonder if he’s has ever heard of Canute, the Danish king said to have ordered the tides to cooperate with his plans to invade England (if tRump mangles 11th-century British history like he does more recent, he might come up with: “...we’ll have to wait and see, I never knew the man—I mean, I’m sure he was a very fine person—but I’ve had my picture taken with billions and billions of people, so, who knows?—maybe he was in one of them, but I don’t know the man—who’s supposed to be a real nut-job: I mean, look at what he was trying to do—be a Danish king before even doughnuts were invented! It’s a disgrace, I know that because—well, you know [pointing at his lacquered coif]. A lot of people don’t know this, but king nut-job tried to invade the UK by telling the tide to go out—or come in—or whatever—but he only got it half right: the invasion was a total failure because King Alfred—Alfred, can you imagine a king with a name like that?! Alfred!? Unbelievable! I don’t know why they just didn’t call him ‘Fred’ like they do it in Germany where my father was born (the Germans love me, I dunno about “Angela”...)—but king nut-job never got rid of king Fred, not like I got rid of Obamacare—so the invasion was a total failure, just like Obamacare and the Democrats—even though he did stop the tide from coming in—or out—it was a long time ago, a lot of people don’t know about it but it was perfect, like my Ukraine transcript, way back when there were only 151 countries in the world. Who would have thought 151? But he did get that wall built, just like I’m doing to Mexico...)
If he had studied history, he’d see a parallel with his own situation: it’s all about showmanship and, whether the tide slacks or not, like a clock that tells the right time twice a day, the magic is irrelevant; if he can do the art of the deal again, like 2016, it won’t matter if he gets a majority of votes or not. He believes he can win because he has to.
But if he doubts, imagine what he must be thinking, like King Canute must have: how to extricate himself from legal doom in the interim between losing the election in November and inauguration of the new president in January. House arrest (the NSA’s never gonna let him outta its sights: he knows too much and hasn’t a patriotic spur in his body) at Mar a Lago is phobic—the scullery staff have had many COVID19 positives. A Dacha on the Black Sea?
He’s more concerned with how this breach of epidemiological immunity in his office looks to his electoral base.
The breach of official quarantine, like the breaking waves defying Canute’s alleged dare, is taken very seriously. The stye-eyed rug-perch is as unconcerned about his colleagues’ COVID19 status as he is about the rest of America. .
Look at it like flattening the curve. tRump’s closest colleagues have to reopen their political careers, so sullied and discredited by GLOVID16, very carefully, gradually, and only when it’s safe to do so. As the adulterous adolescent starts tantrumming on a daily basis, it’s going to get awfully hard for patriotic operatives to resist the temptation to jump the gun.
It’s gnawing at the hole of tRump’s Boot Hill soul; he’s even begun to cast about for friends at the Pentagon —loyal friends, bought friends, the only kind of friends he knows how to get. To me it’s a sign of real desperation since that’s one of the few American institutions he’s been unable to corrupt to any great extent; attempting to force loyalty at the Pentagon in tRumpian terms is really, really, really jumping the shark
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Nancy Pelosi ended up swearing in the winner of the 2020 election next January?
We should all live so long! Be well, my friends.
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