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(CNN)A member of the US Navy who serves as one of President Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, CNN has learned Thursday, raising concerns about the President's possible exposure to the virus.
The valets are members of an elite military unit dedicated to the White House and often work very close to the President and first family. Trump was upset when he was informed Wednesday that the valet had tested positive, a source told CNN, and he was subsequently tested again by the White House physician.
In a statement, the White House confirmed CNN's reporting that one of the President's valets had tested positive.
"We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States Military, who works on the White House campus, has tested positive for Coronavirus," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement. "The President and the Vice President have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/07/politics/trump-valet-tests-positive-covid-19/index.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)And if His Lardship did test positive would they tell us?
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)He keeps coming into contact with people who later test positive. He is not catching it. The people around him are. He is probably spreading it. It is just a new theory of mine, after seeing the OP. "Fucker must be immune" was the first thought that popped into my head.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)he should be one who absolutely gets symptoms. Not sure if he has any other underlying health issues, but that alone puts someone at huge risk. The other biggie is being a smoker or having anything else, such as asthma, that would tend to compromise the lungs.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)mchill
(1,015 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)TYPHOID TRUMP.......LOL
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)up on a test. Or the president could have gotten one of those tests that test negative no matter what, even if you're on death's door and coughing up red foam from COVID-19 like we seem to have here in Arizona.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)Texin
(2,585 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)And that would be fine with me.
LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)The human rabies vaccine is also an antibody plasma, so plasma is also preventative and not just a treatment.
The use of convalescent plasma collected from previously infected individuals to passively-transfer antibodies in order to protect or treat humans dates back almost 100 years, with some evidence for benefit against rabies, hepatitis B, polio, measles, influenza, Ebola and other pathogens1,2. Results from small case series during the prior MERS and SARS coronavirus outbreaks documented safety and faster viral clearance following convalescent plasma administration, particularly when given early in the disease course.
https://www.hematology.org/covid-19/covid-19-and-convalescent-plasma
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)his valet had tested positive. We know Trump doesn't give a rat's ass about other people; he wouldn't have been upset because the valet was ill but because he was afraid he would catch it. If he'd been given some sort of antibody treatment (assuming it would work) that would immunize him, he wouldn't be upset.
Wawannabe
(5,580 posts)YES! YES! YES! With fist pump!
Is the bad? Oh fuckit. Who cares?
I hope he goes DOWN!!!!!!!!
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)I was feeling a little bad about the giddiness I felt when I read this. It's still probably bad but at least I'm not alone.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)I'm not saying I want him to die. I don't, necessarily, but if he were to become seriously ill, his whole house of cards would collapse. End of swagger, end of Trump's mystique.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Cha
(295,903 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)It's the Republican Senate that gives him all his power.
I keep saying we need to take out the RepubliCON majority in the Senate......they are the ones doing the massive damage. Without them, he is wiped out immediately...........
SouthernCal_Dem
(851 posts)An appropriate response IMO.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)I admitted as much to my minister, adding that I realize I was being unkind, but that more people might survive if he was gone.
Walleye
(30,715 posts)Prove that you love me and infect the White House.
Wawannabe
(5,580 posts)Singing my new fav tune!
Walleye
(30,715 posts)A song of great social significance
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)Walleye
(30,715 posts)Like a couple of weeks in ICU on a ventilator. I dont think he would get much sympathy. I dont think we will ever see him in prison either.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)How could it be avoided after such sloppy emergency management?
Has Rocky Mountain Mike recorded a satirical variation yet?
clutterbox1830
(395 posts)It is all about him. No indication that he provided sympathy for this valet.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)nolabear
(41,915 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I've never wanted someone to actually die before, but god help me...
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)I was wondering why there was a sudden lack of tweets from him. I had attributed it to his Twitter meltdown over the Mourning in America ad, but now I'm thinking this may be the reason.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Hopefully, it's a cold... or something stronger.
Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)getting an ultraviolet light enema and then soaking in a Clorox bath.
Well played.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I think Trump is Covid Trump, like Typhoid Mary. So many people around him keep testing positive and he isn't dead yet. Or, at the very least, he isn't sick yet. My new theory is that he must be an asymptomatic carrier and God does not exist or does not answer a lot of prayers. Or maybe he answers no, because we are all being punished for something. What? I don't know, but why else would we end up with both Shrubya AND Trump in one lifetime?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He should be sick most of the time. His diet is terrible, he doesn't sleep, he's addicted to drugs, his stress and anger levels are off the charts, he drinks huge amounts of Diet Coke and yet, he looks like hell and yet he never even seems to come down with a cold.
It's so unfair!
blitzen
(4,572 posts)Kitchari
(2,157 posts)This guy flouts every commonsense health rule and seems to get away with it, or perhaps the narcotics he snorts keep him functioning, in his twisted way
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)how resilient the human body is.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,033 posts)Maybe the Grotesque Orange Pustule is just secretly mainlining embalming fluid and he's really a zombie.
Native
(5,935 posts)Constant hand washing, and I'm sure he trained himself long ago to never touch his face.
LAS14
(13,749 posts)Native
(5,935 posts)enid602
(8,524 posts)Well I hope it's not the valet that has the responsibility for putting on tRump's underpants and hair. That would be a hard person to replace.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)Turbineguy
(37,208 posts)I'd hope to be promoted to Captain of the Head.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)Maybe if he got it "badly", he'd take it as seriously as he should have been taking it all along.
Then we could say, "How's that hoax thing working out for you, OrangeAss?"
tblue37
(64,979 posts)the risk to others.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,419 posts)If not now, it's only a matter of time. The monster is on karma time.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)virus to present itself after exposure, so trump's immediate test result is meaningless.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)Which is why a 14 day quarantine for this disease is generally effective. If you don't show symptoms by the 14th day you're probably clear.
spinbaby
(15,073 posts)Hes been exposed, so he should wear a mask and not be around people for a couple of weeks.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)nobody can tell trump what he should do, he won't listen. Narcissists think they know everything, and since they don't give a damn about anyone else, he won't care if he "does" infect others.
Who knows, the WH might become the next "hot spot" for the virus. Who knows how many trump could infect if he doesn't quarantine himself!
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)> 90% of cases show symptoms by 11 days.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)"Okay, Mr. President, we're going to have to start testing you three times a day."
(Expletives Deleted) (More Expletives Deleted) (Even More Expletives Deleted) "Are you still going to use that eighteen-inch swab?"
"Yes, sir. Your health is too important to leave to chance. Now, if you'll just open wide and sniff..."
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)To be picked up on test. I asked this question last week because they tested my dad at hospital one day after exposure and people said it wouldn't show until at least 2 days??? This topic is so important and I never see it written about.
DIVINEprividence
(443 posts)Just being honest. It would the best thing that could happen for the USA
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)It is unhealthy to bite your tongue. Sends blood pressure and stress levels up. Stress and high blood pressure are both killers.
You are not alone in that wish when it comes to Shithead.
abakan
(1,815 posts)but I think death is too good for asswipe trump. I want to see him suffer, the means that takes is not important, dealers choice.
I would like to see him penny less before he dies, that will hurt him, bigly.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)But, it would be something to get to watch him as a pauper, unable to borrow more money to lose through crappy business practices. They say he stiffs people a lot. He's known in the business world as a con artist. Yet, people want his name on businesses. That is why so much is named after him.
I do want to see him suffer because of how he is making Americans suffer right now. He is bad for this country and bad for Americans.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)dreamland
(964 posts)If only there were more positive cases. Then maybe they would.take this virus seriously.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)isn't it unlikely that Trump would be testing positive immediately after exposure?
Will Trump be self-isolating in the meantime? He was supposed to be meeting with Texas Governor Abbott today.
Zoonart
(11,749 posts)They should be contact tracing through the entire whitehouse and everyone that 45 has come in contact with -unmasked- for the last week at least, that his valet has been shedding Covid onto his Big Macs.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Trump might need a dose of COVID-19 to re-educate himself on the scourge of this virus.
And Trumpers need to see their Fearless Leader brought to his knees, and perhaps to the grave, to understand the seriousness of the problem.
God works in mysterious ways.
mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)The valet had the color mixture down pat. New valet screws up the mixture?
I feel so sorry for anyone who has to work next to the orange/red sack of $hit.
Ford_Prefect
(7,820 posts)shockey80
(4,379 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)mchill
(1,015 posts)Think of all the people he spread it to while not wearing a mask in AZ yesterday. A factory making masks. The poetic justice, the irony runneth over.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)If thats what great health looks like, I never want to be that healthy. Rump looks like a druggie street hobo, dirty face and hollow eyes, bloated from eating garbage scraps like a fat rat. No idea what Pence looks like, since hes made out of plastic, apparently from one of those 3-D machines.
MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)this is the "*president" you know............
Let's quote a great American (since IQ45 is such a master of American history) - Mark Twain:
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)MadMike47
(105 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)and it's close by.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)He was in close contact with Gov. Ducey during his visit, and the Republican Arizona delegation rode on Air Force One with him.
Link to tweet
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lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)that I'm kind of excited about this new development?
IcyPeas
(21,738 posts)Link to tweet
LAS14
(13,749 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Where was Kayleigh "Miss Tough Stuff" McEnany, the lead White House press secretary -- too busy running victory laps over her accusing Vox.com and the Washington Post of underplaying the virus as much as President The Don has?
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=705996536837262
rocktivity
jimlup
(7,968 posts)....
drmeow
(4,995 posts)More like raising hopes!