‘We will get through this together,’ Trump said after testing positive for virus
The White House said Fri that President Donald Trump had been suffering “mild signs and symptoms” of COVID-19, adding that he has been in good spirits and working within his family quarters although announcement of his sickness threw the united states deeper into uncertainty only a month before the presidential election.
The revelation came in a Trump tweet about 1 a.m. after he previously returned from a political fundraiser without informing the crowd he had been exposed to an aide with the condition that has killed more than 205,000 People in America and more when compared to a million people worldwide.
1st lady Melania Trump furthermore also tested positive, the president said, and many others in the White HOuse have, as well, prompting concern at the White House as well as Trump himself may have spread the virus. Trumps’ son Barron, who lives at the White House, tested negative for Covid-19.
Trump spent most of the year downplaying the risk of the virus, rarely wearing the protective mask and urging states and cities to “reopen” and reduce or even eliminate shutdown guidelines.
Both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have tested negative, their campaign said. Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus
Trump’s Supreme Courtroom nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who was simply with him and many more on Saturday and contains been on Capitol Hill ending up in lawmakers, also tested negative, the White House said.
Trump’s diagnosis was certain to truly have a destabilizing effect inside Washington and all over the world, raising questions about how exactly far the virus had pass on through the highest degree of the U.S. government. Hrs before Trump introduced he previously contracted the virus, the White house said a top aide individual who had traveled with him through the 7 days had tested positive.
“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested good for COVID-19. We shall start our quarantine and healing process instantly,” Trump tweeted right before 1 a.m. “We shall complete this TOGETHER!”
Trump has been considering how he could address the country or otherwise talk to the American people Fri, the official added.
The diagnosis marks a devastating blow for a president who has been trying desperately to convince the American general public that the worst of the pandemic is behind. It’ll likely drive him off the campaign trail just several weeks prior to the election and places his participation in the next presidential debate, planned for Oct. 15 in Miami, into question.
