# Trump has COVID! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022 "2020-10-02T10:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/662 "2020-10-06T22:56:57Z")
Stephen Miller has it (a reputable source): > ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/663 "2020-10-06T22:58:43Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > MSNBC just confirmed Miller has COVID. That’s the first report I’ve seen from a news source. So large viruses can indeed become infected by smaller viruses. Good to know. ---
**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, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/664 "2020-10-06T22:58:50Z")
JOHNT MORGYN 🤝 Bringing the people the news they want to hear. (Damned auto formatting killed the joke.) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/665 "2020-10-06T23:04:44Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Two days in hospital? A drug cocktail? I’m still, STILL not believing he had Covid-19 whatsoever. And now I’m starting to doubt the full list of ass-lickers who also tested positive. Don’t forget, he has a hospital room and medical staff at the white house ---
**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 6, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/666 "2020-10-06T23:04:55Z")
Indeed. Now, can you bring me the news that Bill Barr has it? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/667 "2020-10-06T23:06:10Z")
And Mitch McConnell if we are making a list. ---
**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 6, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/668 "2020-10-06T23:07:15Z")
LOL, I swear I was just coming back to edit my post to make this addition! ---
**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 6, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/669 "2020-10-06T23:19:43Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I keep waffling on whether I want him to die or suffer seriously. I was right there until he started talking about how he has made the sacrifice of getting himself infected so he could show everyone it was no big deal. > [@](#): > > “We’re going back. We’re going back to work. We’re gonna be out front. As your leader I had to do that. I knew there’s danger to it but I had to do it. I stood out front. I led. Nobody that’s a leader would not do what I did.” Just die motherfucker. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/670 "2020-10-06T23:21:54Z")
To all those who were yelling “Trump is going to kill off the Republican Party!”- I apologize for both doubting you, and for thinking you were speaking figuratively. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/671 "2020-10-06T23:26:13Z")
And about the whole “We’re going back to work” thing, I was talking about this with friends over the weekend. I said he’ll eventually be cured, say since he survived, it’s all good. Open up the whole country! So if anything, him getting over it (or not ever having it in the first place) just gives fire to the “hoax” base. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/672 "2020-10-07T00:16:53Z")
Very preliminary, but this poll shows Trump’s support plummeting after the COVID diagnosis. > **[Trump support craters after contracting coronavirus, new FPU/Herald poll reveals](https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/10/06/trump-support-craters-after-contracting-coronavirus-new-fpu-herald-poll-reveals/)** > > Support for President Trump has plummeted since he contracted COVID-19, allowing Democratic nominee Joe Biden to open a commanding double-digit lead less than a month before the election, a new Fra… ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/673 "2020-10-07T00:37:22Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > He’s keeping his mouth shut. Not speaking a word This is what was really noticeable to me; he almost never misses an opportunity to spout off. He really did not look well. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/674 "2020-10-07T01:06:19Z")
His stunt today to scuttle talks on stimulus is, to me, his clearest “fuck you” to democracy and voters yet. He is essentially saying he doesn’t give a shit what the results say; he’s going to do all he can to disrupt and discredit the result. If he can’t disrupt voting badly enough to steal the election and the electors choose someone else, he will tell his rabid supporters that their votes were stolen and encourage them to riot. We need to be prepared for the next 3-4 months. Everyone needs to be prepared. Politically, it’s probably going to be the most turbulent period since Reconstruction. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/675 "2020-10-07T01:19:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Dr. Sean Conley isn’t an MD. He’s an osteopath An osteopath for a sociopath. ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/676 "2020-10-07T01:38:47Z")
Possibly. It’s also been argued that McConnell conned Trump into taking the fall for a bill which McC knew he couldn’t get passed the Senate as McC didn’t even have full GOP support for the Republican bill, much less any Democratic variation. > ---
**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 7, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/677 "2020-10-07T01:43:04Z")
This has been my belief, as Josh Marshall lays it out, for quite some time. McConnell pulled the plug on a final stimulus before the election quite some time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/678 "2020-10-07T02:25:53Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > His stunt today to scuttle talks on stimulus is, to me, his clearest “fuck you” to democracy and voters yet. What really bugged me about that statement was when he said “I have instructed my representatives…”. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t those aren’t HIS representatives, they’re ours. They’re supposed to be representing US. I’m assuming (very possibly incorrectly) that by "my representatives’, he’s not talking about people that liaison between him and congress, but rather Mitch, Lindsey and the other GOP senate members. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/679 "2020-10-07T02:38:47Z")
Dude, we’re way past the point of being bugged or outraged; he has been telegraphing since day one - and before - he does not give a fuck about the constitutional, legal, or political norms. If this were a football game, authoritarianism would have the ball. First and goal to go. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/680 "2020-10-07T02:55:21Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > If this were a football game, authoritarianism would have the ball. First and goal to go. If this were a football game, he’d be reffing it and before the coin toss he’d announce that the other team forfeited and the team he has money on wins. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/681 "2020-10-07T03:51:41Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > > [@Ukulele\_Ike1](#): > > > > (Warning…this is pretty great) > > Wow! That’s the first thing I’ve ever heard that made me want to listen to music while running. Ordinarily I prefer the ambient sounds around me, but this makes me feel like flying. I listen to it often. I like the original cast recording, too, because the lyrics are also awesome! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=35)