# Hope Hicks, Trump’s close adviser tests positive for COVID **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006 "2020-10-02T02:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/1 "2020-10-02T02:25:39Z")
Breaking story. Hope Hicks is one of Trump’s closest advisers and has tested positive for Covid-19. She travels with him constantly. He should self-quarantine. We will see. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/2 "2020-10-02T02:30:20Z")
This is what immediately comes to mind: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/58/fc/7f58fc1837cf87b0785d86170a32d9f3.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/58/fc/7f58fc1837cf87b0785d86170a32d9f3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/3 "2020-10-02T02:31:57Z")
As I asked in a Pit thread, does this mean Trump could have exposed Joe Biden to it during the debate? I hope Biden starts testing forthwith. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/4 "2020-10-02T02:36:37Z")
IANAD but it certainly seems possible. Trump spews “very strongly.” ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/5 "2020-10-02T02:39:30Z")
That scares me a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/6 "2020-10-02T02:46:13Z")
This may also be the catalyst that either forces real change to the debates (i.e. Zoom with a mute button), or lets Biden skip the next two without looking like he’s afraid to debate Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/7 "2020-10-02T04:20:09Z")
The Superspreader-in-Chief shall hereafter be known as Typhoid Trump. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/8 "2020-10-02T04:58:44Z")
In my more optimistic moments, I think that maybe Trump being hospitalized for COVID-19 would be a “come to Jesus” moment and he might pull a Scrooge on Christmas morning and become a better person. Then I wake up and realize that he would just find a way to blame it on the “Democrat Party” or Antifa or the Deep State. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/9 "2020-10-02T05:04:18Z")
So I just got an alert for this video claiming that Trump has tested positive for COVID-19: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=360&width=640&share_id&href=https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1764243643713708/ Does anybody know if that’s right? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/10 "2020-10-02T05:05:49Z")
OK, it’s on NBC: > **[Trump experiencing 'mild symptoms' after testing positive for Covid-19](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-first-lady-test-positive-covid-19-n1241769)** > > The president announced that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive and are isolating. The diagnosis thrusts the White House, election into turmoil. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/11 "2020-10-02T05:29:29Z")
While I don’t want anybody to get sick, I just had a horrible vision of Trump being totally asymptomatic and telling everybody “You see, I told you it was a hoax”. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/12 "2020-10-02T08:51:57Z")
When I went to bed the news was all about the tapes of Melania not giving a fuck about kids and CHRISTMAS. Nobody is talking about those tapes anymore. As if this election needed even more drama. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hope-hicks-trump-s-close-adviser-tests-positive-for-covid/922006/13 "2020-10-02T09:00:45Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > While I don’t want anybody to get sick, I just had a horrible vision of Trump being totally asymptomatic and telling everybody “You see, I told you it was a hoax”. Yes, this could be disastrous. And if he does get ill, it could give him sympathy votes. Neither scenario is good.