# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![JayRx1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@JayRx1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayRx1981)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/742 "2020-10-08T07:14:49Z")
The fly on Pence’s head was a dead giveaway. 😋 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/743 "2020-10-08T08:15:55Z")
“These drugs I’m taking are the _best_ drugs, and Imma give you all some for _free_!” is not so much a policy statement as a harbinger of an imminent crash. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/744 "2020-10-08T09:47:27Z")
There’s definitely a bit of palsy happening in that flip. ---
**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 8, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/745 "2020-10-08T13:38:30Z")
Fairly sure the WH memo told them all to get tested _through their (non-WH) primary care physicians,_ implying that the WH will _not_ be offering them testing or – presumably – care if they contracted COVID. “Compassionate Conservatism” ---
**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 8, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/746 "2020-10-08T13:41:59Z")
I wonder if the Strategic National Stockpile is still replete with the 27,000,000 doses of HCQ that he bought … y’know … when he was dead sure about _that one._ Maybe they’ll be imprinted with the Seal of the President and offered as an alternative to the famous WH M&M’s. I’ve never believed he’s an idiot. Maybe not MENSA material, but not frankly stupid. Evil, however … It’s those who endlessly buy his nonsensical, irrational, dishonest BS … those are the ones whose sheer intellectual horsepower I have to question. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/747 "2020-10-08T13:42:04Z")
if the pres has bell’s palsy, he would be in total isolation. no one would see him for months. can’t be that. ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/748 "2020-10-08T14:14:20Z")
We found the culprits, the people who gave Trump the Rona. Who knew? Who knew it could be the military’s fault again? > **[Democrats rip Trump for suggesting Gold Star families could have given him...](https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/08/trump-gold-star-families-coronavirus-427875)** > > “They come within an inch of my face, sometimes,” the president said of the families of America’s war dead. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/749 "2020-10-08T14:52:59Z")
> [@](#): > > **Trump says he doesn’t believe he’s contagious and wants to resume rallies** > > President Trump says he doesn’t believe he is contagious and, less than a week after testing positive for coronavirus, he is ready to resume campaign rallies. He says he is immune from another infection and attributed his recovery to being a “perfect physical specimen.” I cannot read that aloud without laughing or scoffing. Try it. It reads like something from The Onion or The Borowitz Report, but this really is a direct quote fom a Trump interview. > **[October 8 Trump Covid-19 and 2020 election news](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-covid-19-updates-thursday/h_2859c79d3b67ec614fc532f7537f6c37)** > > President Trump, who is recovering from Covid-19, says he won't participate in next week's virtual debate. Follow here for live updates on the 2020 race and Trump's diagnosis. > [@](#): > > “I don’t think I’m contagious, at all,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/750 "2020-10-08T14:54:30Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I cannot read that aloud without laughing or scoffing. Try it. > It reads like something from The Onion or The Borowitz Report, but this really is a direct quote fom a Trump interview. > > > “I don’t think" He should’ve stopped there. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/751 "2020-10-08T14:54:54Z")
“Perfect physical specimen”. Of what? ---
**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 8, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/752 "2020-10-08T14:57:50Z")
I know I’ve said this a lot in this thread, but this is insane, he is acting crazy and the fact that everyone around him is acting like it’s not crazy makes it more disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/753 "2020-10-08T16:04:37Z")
In the CNN story about his interview with Fox News (linked below), it says > He called into Fox Business from the White House residence, where **he continues taking a steroid as part of his Covid treatment**. Is this correct? We know he was prescribed dexamethasone on Friday and/or Saturday, but I can’t find any other story confirming that he’s _currently_ still continuing to take dex or any other steroid. Has anyone seen any information on this? A continuing course of steroids seems completely inconsistent with his doctor claiming he is recovering and now symptom-free. [https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/trump-covid-fox-interview/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/trump-covid-fox-interview/index.html) ---
**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 8, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/754 "2020-10-08T16:08:11Z")
In that call he also said that he wants Barr to indict Biden. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/755 "2020-10-08T16:08:44Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > A continuing course of steroids seems completely inconsistent with his doctor claiming he is recovering and now symptom-free. He’s a drug addict. Been snorting Adderall for years. No surprise that he’s switched to 'roids after finding out how good they make him feel. And a side effect is he has no clue how (much more) deranged they make him sound and act. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/756 "2020-10-08T16:11:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > ### [The latest on the 2020 election: Live updates](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-covid-19-updates-thursday/h_2859c79d3b67ec614fc532f7537f6c37) > > President Trump, who is recovering from Covid-19, says he won’t participate in next week’s virtual debate. Follow here for live updates on the 2020 race and Trump’s diagnosis. Have the “debate” anyway. It’ll be Joe Biden solo for 90 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/757 "2020-10-08T16:14:37Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > He’s a drug addict. Well okay, but the CNN story (if correct) is talking about his prescribed COVID treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/758 "2020-10-08T16:18:09Z")
What? This is the first time the official Trump White House line was complete bullshit? As Trump whoppers go, his miraculous “recovery” from COVID rates a 2 out of 10. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/759 "2020-10-08T16:24:32Z")
Please calm down in your performative incredulity at my gullibility. I’m not saying I believe anything the WH says about anything. I want to know _what_ they have said. Does anyone know if his doctors have actually confirmed that he’s still taking steroids, as the CNN article suggests? ---
**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 8, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/760 "2020-10-08T16:26:26Z")
It could also be the _reason_ that he’s … uh … “symptom-free.” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/761 "2020-10-08T16:28:09Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > It could also be the _reason_ that he’s … uh … “symptom-free.”… Of course. What I’m trying to understand is whether his doctors have actually claimed (a) he’s recovering and now symptom free; but (b) he’s on a current course of steroids. Because it seems bizarre for them to _admit_ that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=39)