# Trump and Melania test positive for COVID-19 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010 "2020-10-02T05:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/483 "2020-10-03T03:47:22Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > News flies fast! It sure does. When Trump tweeted his news at around 1:00am local time, it was only 7 pm here. By 7:30, I had heard the news from three sources, and I don’t even own a TV or do FB. I went upstairs to tell my SO, and _he_ had already heard about it from two other sources. And someone was going home after having played table tennis in another building on the property, and that guy shouted the news up to us in the house as he was walking by. I’m guessing that the only people in America who didn’t get the news within 30 minutes of Trump’s tweet were the ones already sleeping. It was pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/484 "2020-10-03T03:54:02Z")
Oh, it gets even better. Right after that assinine tweet she unloads another which has since been deleted but this guy captured it: [https://mobile.twitter.com/DougKyed/status/1312050894792519680](https://mobile.twitter.com/DougKyed/status/1312050894792519680) It’s really hard to believe that people are this dumb. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/485 "2020-10-03T04:02:12Z")
Bill Stepien has tested positive for rona. One month before the election and the head of the campaign (Stepien), the head of the RNC, and the President himself has rona. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/486 "2020-10-03T04:06:14Z")
I think it could be credibly argued that the past week, starting from the nomination ‘party’, has been the worst in Donald Trump’s life. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/487 "2020-10-03T04:23:23Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Meanwhile in the loony bin department: This is from Dinesh D’Souza > > "There is a silver lining. When Trump is out of this, he’ll be immune from Covid-19 and stronger than ever. My suggested motto for him going forward: “No more Mister Nice Guy” I wonder if anyone has told him that immunity only lasts a few months. And then there are the long-term effects, like heart and lung damage. PSA—don’t look at Dinesh’s twitter account. It’s like wading through a pond full of raw sewage. He’s never met a fact he didn’t deny. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/488 "2020-10-03T04:30:34Z")
When was he ever Mister Nice Guy? This has gone very quickly- from healthy to hospital in under a week, from positive test to admitted to hospital in what, 20 hours? I’m not one to bet, but there’s a good shot he doesn’t see Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/489 "2020-10-03T04:37:12Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > LOL, I was just going to post this. It’s like watching the Red Wedding episode. No, the good guys were the ones being killed in that one. It’s more like Arya doing in the Freys. Especially because they drank the kool-aid wine themselves. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/490 "2020-10-03T04:47:15Z")
The night of the long swabs. ---
**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 3, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/491 "2020-10-03T05:07:23Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Republican: How is it that those who turned the ridiculing of safety precautions into a rigid political badge are getting sick with the virus, and those that followed the safey measures tend not to get sick? Rigged! Unfair! Matt Gaetz argues Trump catching COVID after ignoring CDC guidance means coronavirus rules don’t work > **[Matt Gaetz argues Trump catching COVID after ignoring CDC guidance means...](https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/matt-gaetz-argues-trump-catching-after-ignoring-cdc-guidance-means-rules-dont-work/)** > > Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) argued on Fox News that President Donald Trump catching coronavirus means that the guidelines put forth by the Centers for Disease Control don't work.Gaetz made his argument to Tucker Carlson after Trump was airlifted to Walter... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/492 "2020-10-03T05:24:29Z")
Yeah, but that guy is painfully idiotic. Instead of using the news of today to do a little self reflection, I see the Republicans are just going to figure that the problem is that they haven’t been stupid enough. It’s too bad that their homicidal idiocy will make innocent people who don’t even like Republicans sick. It would be a different story if these moron Republicans simply chose to wander aound hitting themselves in the face with icepicks. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/493 "2020-10-03T05:33:54Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Matt Gaetz argues Trump catching COVID after ignoring CDC guidance means coronavirus rules don’t work And I don’t even have to click the link to know that fucking fascist idiot Colson agreed with him ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/494 "2020-10-03T06:38:19Z")
I just remembered the season opener of SNL tomorrow was supposed to have Baldwin as Trump and Jim Carrey as Biden. Was looking forward to it (Chris Rock is hosting ) . Bet they are furiously rewriting now ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/495 "2020-10-03T07:06:46Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > [Good lord](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/02/maga-world-blame-adulation-trump-covid-425624): That article is nuts in the extreme. It’s hard to say what the nutsiest part is. There’s this: > “You’ve never seen him sick. You’ve never seen him without energy,” Brenden Dilley, a self-described “MAGA life coach,” told his viewers on his [radio show](https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1312107969052438530) Friday. “[He’s] not walking around with weak-ass, p---- f------ genetics. **He ain’t got those liberal genes. These are, like, god-tier genetics; top 1-percentile genetics.”** (my bold-- and leaving aside for the moment “MAGA life coach” Whaaa?) and then there’s also this: > QAnon is a set of online-based beliefs that, at its core, claims a top tier of Satan-worshiping elites are running a secret pedophile ring out of Washington, D.C., and that Trump is the vanguard of an upcoming “Storm” that will lead to mass arrests and executions of these officials. > > And on Friday, according to various QAnon theorists, Trump had left a secret message to his followers in his announcement on Twitter that he had tested positive for Covid-19. Some suggested that his use of the word “together” was, in fact, code for “to get her,” a reference to attacks on his 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton. Others thought Trump’s quarantining was part of a broader plan to isolate the president from potential violence associated with the upcoming election. WHOA! ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/496 "2020-10-03T08:15:46Z")
It’s interesting to see the conspiracy theories of the dumb ass left and the dumb ass right merging. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/497 "2020-10-03T08:45:42Z")
What are the dumb ass left conspiracy theories? ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/498 "2020-10-03T08:47:38Z")
That because Trump is a pathological liar (the accurate part of the theory), he actually doesn’t have the virus at all, and is claiming to have it as part of some sort of nefarious plan. There’s plenty of examples of it here and elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/499 "2020-10-03T09:14:42Z")
None of those things rise to the level of right wing conspiracy theories. They’re rarely taken seriously at all, and when it comes to pathological liars it’s necessary to consider even such outlandish ideas before rejecting them. This is nothing like the right wing conspiracies. It is a false equivalence, just like recently when the CNN website made a story out of one inaccuracy in a Biden speech as if it were the same as the numerous intentional provable lies that come from Trump ceaselessly. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/500 "2020-10-03T09:14:47Z")
I only waded through the last 100 posts of schadenfreude so i dont know if this has been asked so i will: If Trump passes and Pence is nominated as his replacement which scenario is more likely? Pence stomps Biden in the election. The populace of never-Trumpers are relieved to be dealing with a ‘normal politician’ unencumbered by rape allegations and isnt propped up with a pharmacy, string and chewing gum. Biden stomps Trump. The only thing Trump had going for him was he was a populist and his base enjoyed his 'common man, salt of the earth" ( You mean, morons?) approach. They wont vote for Pence. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/501 "2020-10-03T09:22:46Z")
People on the left who give Trump any credit as a strategist are just as dumb as people on the right doing the same thing, even if they’re not as evil. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/502 "2020-10-03T09:29:38Z")
So your point is that people are stupid? Can’t argue with that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010.md?page=26)