The virus that kills more than 200,000 Americans has inflamed the head of state.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday morning to verify a positive result for COVID-19.
“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery procedure immediately. Let’s get this ENSEMBLE!” wrote the president.
Reactions to news on social media ranged from benevolence to skepticism.
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On October 2, former attorney Richard Greene posted his hypothesis on Facebook, suggesting that the outcome of Trump’s positive check could simply be a “scammer. “Greene is also in a 2016 Huffington Post article, “Is Donald Trump mentally ill?”3 psychiatric teachers are asking President Obama to conduct “a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation. “Your article temporarily went viral.
There are three reasons, according to Greene, not to accept as true the White House announcement that Trump tested positive:
Greene mentioned the result of the first girl’s positive checkup, Melania Trump, in her message.
“My FB post was instantaneous and gained more responses and faster. . . and more positive Responses Array. . . than anything I think I’ve posted,” Greene told USA TODAY in an email.
Greene attributed his skepticism to “severe cynicism” after Trump’s falsehoods in his presidency, as well as a “surprise of the October coronavirus. “
Trump made more than 20,000 false or misleading statements during his tenure, according to a July report via The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.
“The term ‘October surprise’ was coined through a political agent in the 1980s, but has since been used through the media to describe unforeseen political mistakes in the twilight of the campaign,” Smithsonian magazine said, adding that “they have a modern policy. “
In Greene’s view, an “October surprise” is one of the “12 Ways Donald Trump Can Win,” a list compiled through Greene in an August 23 blog post. Greene theorized that Trump would convince the Food and Drug Administration to pass a COVID-19 “cure” vaccine this month, ending the “coronavirus crisis. “
“This may just be an edition of this “October surprise” strategy,” Greene said, referring to Trump’s COVID-19 status.
USA TODAY has contacted Trump for comment.
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Despite the skepticism of some on social media, the president may have been exposed to coronavirus several times in recent weeks.
News of the positive effects of president and first lady Melania Trump came after White House adviser Hope Hicks was positive, according to USA TODAY.
Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity thursday that he and the first “spent a lot of time with Hope. “
Hicks has traveled extensively with Trump over the following week, adding the first major debate in 2020 in Cleveland on September 29. USA TODAY reported that participants in Trump’s auditorium refused to wear masks.
The moderator of the debate said that a security member of the Cleveland Clinic had presented a mask to Trump’s family, but that he had been “discarded,” according to USA TODAY.
Hicks, one of 180 attendees to see Trump announce Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the White Rose Garden Supreme Court last week, USA TODAY reported that less than a third of those who provided in the ad were dressed in masks.
In an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show Friday, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who helped Trump prepare for the debate, said the president and others in the room were not wearing masks.
“No one was wearing a mask in the room when we were preparing the president in this period. And the organization was made up of five or six other people in total,” Christie said, according to USA TODAY.
Wearing a mask and other people’s social distance of at least 6 feet are steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In addition to Hicks, others close to the president or who were recently in the White House also tested positive for COVID-19.
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During Tuesday’s debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump about the risks of conducting election rallies with thousands more if it’s a pandemic.
“We had no negative effects, we had no negative effects,” Trump said, according to a transcript of the debate. “And we had 35 (a) 40,000 more people in some of those demonstrations. “
Trump also said the celebration of rallies made “a big difference according to the experts. “
According to USA TODAY, supporters huddled in a partially open-air hangar at the airport for a September 3 demonstration in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in which Trump criticized political opponent Biden for dressing up in a mask in public and rejected questions about his own health.
Trump held another demonstration at an airport hangar in Freeland, Michigan, a week later, according to USA TODAY. Many of the 5,000 participants were not dressed in masks. A September 14 demonstration in Henderson, Nevada, held indoors, defying state restrictions on coronaviruses.
More than 1,000 attendees attended Trump’s acceptance speech on August 28 for the Republican presidential nomination in the White House’s South Garden, but public seats did not meet CDC’s social estating guidelines and most of them did not wear masks, USA TODAY reported.
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Hicks is the only high-ranking member of Trump’s inner circle to test positive for coronavirus. The Republican National Committee showed that its president Ronna McDaniel tested positive Wednesday, according to detroit Free Press. McDaniel spent time with the president a week ago.
National security adviser Robert O’Brien and senior crusader Officer Kimberly Guilfoyle conducted summer tests reported USA TODAY in July.
Former Interim Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Tomas Philipson had a mild case of COVID-19 in June, but has since left his post in white space. Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s top spokeswoman, took the test in early May. Miller went back to work. Pence proved that he and his wife Karen tested negative for the virus on Friday morning, according to USA TODAY.
Other White House staff members near the president and family circle also tested positive in recent months. The list includes cafeteria employees, a White House valet, a Marine One helicopter pilot and a Pence staff member, USA TODAY reported.
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On Friday, Greene retwented a Financial Times video about how President Bolsonaro benefited from his diagnosis of COVID-19. USA TODAY reported that the Brazilian leader took the test in July.
“The former army captain continually minimized the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and joined the demonstrations without dressing in a mask,” the video says. “Following in the footsteps of his political soulmate, U. S. President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro also said there was the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. “
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In the past, Trump brought hydroxychloroquine as a lifesaver drug that opposes COVID-19, despite evidence that it does not prevent disease progression, USA TODAY reported.
Critics have said Bolsonaro has denied science by presenting the debatable drug as a imaginable solution, but returning to paintings after his immediate recovery from COVID-19 made him look like a “messiah,” according to the video.
“Assuming he has recovered from the virus, it may emerge politically more potent from the pandemic,” said Andres Schipani, a financial times correspondent in Brazil. “Their approval rates remain around 30% and symptoms of improvement are already emerging. “With these figures, history suggests that it could delay efforts to drive him out of the workplace through an indictment process. “
Unfortunately, Trump has stated that coronavirus is a double-edged sword and has blamed a large number of US instances on the issue. But it’s not the first time By an increase in Array according to USA TODAY.
There are apparent similarities between Trump and Bolsonaro’s responses to the COVID-19 epidemic, but there is no evidence that Trump is making plans to contract the disease or mendacity about a positive test.
Greene told USA TODAY that the final results of the president’s check may be accurate, given the number of others he is exposed to, but added, “We’re unlikely to ever know. “
“How can we truly accept PERSON in Trump’s faithful orbit (?) Remember when white house officer (Ronny) Jackson lied about Trump’s length to make sure he wasn’t considered ‘morbidly obese (?)’ “
The Post reported on the internet-generated conspiracy theory, called “girther,” that Jackson had lied about Trump’s height and weight in a physical exam in 2018. Jackson is no longer a White House doctor and won a moment for Congressional District 13 in Texas, according to the New York Times.
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