# 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:** 60
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1187 "2020-10-06T23:11:35Z")
Steven Miller has announced that he’s tested positive. > **[Nursing Homes in Nevada Told to Stop Using Rapid Coronavirus Tests (Published...](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/07/world/covid-coronavirus/stephen-miller-a-top-trump-aide-tests-positive-for-the-virus)** > > President Trump returned to the Oval Office, and claimed an unapproved treatment is a “cure.” The virus takes center stage at the vice-presidential debate. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1188 "2020-10-06T23:20:34Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > As one would expect from the social media postings of an average 15-year-old, they contain no sophisticated political commentary or ambitious acts of civil disobedience. While true, it’s the contrast that’s the interesting thing here. Her mother has the intellect and moral authority of an amoeba. So a typical 15-year-old looks rather good in comparison. It wasn’t Claudia that infected the family because she didn’t want to be seen in a mask or failed to practice social distancing. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1189 "2020-10-06T23:20:43Z")
In breaking news, Covid-19 announced it is testing positive for Steven Miller. It made the announcement simultaneously with Mr. Miller announcing he tested positive for Covid-19. Is there romance in Mr. Miller’s future? The surprising answer. Next. After this short commercial break. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1190 "2020-10-06T23:22:28Z")
I just saw that, and I’m having trouble working up any sympathy. May his lovely bride sit extra, extra close to him. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1191 "2020-10-06T23:26:52Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Steven Miller has announced that he’s tested positive. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1192 "2020-10-06T23:33:03Z")
Statistically speaking, with Trump and his Oberkommand infecting each other, this has to end very badly for some of them, right? ---
**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 6, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1193 "2020-10-06T23:33:23Z")
That’s nothing but a hoard of disease-ridden criminals intent on taking our jobs right there. ---
**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 6, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1194 "2020-10-06T23:34:43Z")
Well, they’re wrong. In a number of ways. But this isn’t really the thread to discuss it, I was merely making a personal observation. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1195 "2020-10-06T23:41:57Z")
“And they’re not sending us their best. They’re sending dealers, rapists, murderers, profoundly narcissistic and frankly sociopathic carriers of potentially lethal diseases …” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1196 "2020-10-06T23:52:26Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > In breaking news, Covid-19 announced it is testing positive for Steven Miller. It made the announcement simultaneously with Mr. Miller announcing he tested positive for Covid-19. Is there romance in Mr. Miller’s future? The surprising answer. Next. After this short commercial break. Lincoln Project tweet : “It’s jumped species.” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1197 "2020-10-06T23:57:41Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Or this is the palace coup’s beginning. Let him expire and make Pence the candidate. And probably lose, but that’s maybe already in the cards. Maybe they’d go with Pence. But does anyone want to bet against the likelihood that this exchange happened? > [@](#): > > DON, JR.: So look, my name is Donald J. Trump. What’s to stop ME from being the President? The guy who won the Electoral College in 2016 was…Donald J. Trump! > > ATTORNEY: Uh, well… > > DON, JR.: Right! Like I said! I’m Donald J. Trump and the Constitution says I’m the President! Let’s get Dad cremated and get on with it! I find it hard to believe this conversation _hasn’t_ occurred at some recent point in Don Senior’s illness. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1198 "2020-10-07T00:16:05Z")
“I am Donald J.Trump, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1199 "2020-10-07T00:17:15Z")
There is a Guardian article, almost dripping with ill-placed anticipation, about Giuliani coughing uncontrollably during an interview while still awaiting test results. I’m not sure that it is dignified to presuppose such things. Wait for the results, no? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1200 "2020-10-07T00:23:11Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Lincoln Project tweet : “It’s jumped species.” It’s kinda fun when the Republican mud-slinging apparatus is spun up for your side. Can see the appeal. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1201 "2020-10-07T00:27:37Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole1](#): > > I just saw that, and I’m having trouble working up any sympathy. May his lovely bride sit extra, extra close to him. - I’m not even trying. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1202 "2020-10-07T00:28:28Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Lincoln Project tweet : “It’s jumped species.” Fucking brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1203 "2020-10-07T02:06:13Z")
Kellyanne having to quarantine with the teenage daughter she infected who obviously hates her. I’d call it poetic justice but I feel terrible for the kid. Kellyanne looks kind of bad in that video (and not just from a parenting perspective). I don’t think she is feeling so good. Good. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1204 "2020-10-07T02:08:46Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > I don’t think she is feeling so good. Good. - She needs cheering up. Someone should tell her she has an “alternative virus”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1205 "2020-10-07T02:14:12Z")
Slate suggests Trump hasn’t actually been tested. > **[Here’s a Theory: Maybe Trump Wasn’t Getting Tested for COVID at All](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/trump-covid-negative-test-a-theory.html?via=rss)** > > Maybe they won't say when his last negative result was because there wasn't one. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010/1206 "2020-10-07T02:15:23Z")
Where’s Melania? Was she at Walter Reed? Is she still there? She was infected too, right? What about all their kids, are they testing negative? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-melania-test-positive-for-covid-19/922010.md?page=61)