Trump went to fundraiser Thursday evening
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For months, President Donald Trump seeded and nurtured a culture of coronavirus denial. Early Friday, the coronavirus proved his strategy does not work.
From calling the whole thing a hoax to claiming it would go away in the warm weather to dismissing it as milder than the flu to discouraging mask use among his staff to mocking Democratic challenger Joe Biden for wearing one, Trump has made downplaying the disease a cornerstone of his reelection effort.
Trump even pushed ahead with a campaign fundraiser at his New Jersey golf resort Thursday, despite knowing that a top aide with whom he spent many hours in recent days had just tested positive — a direct violation of CDC protocols that potentially infected dozens of high-dollar Republican donors.
It was only after midnight Friday, after 7 million Americans had already contracted the disease and some 208,000 had died, did Trump make the announcement that could finally force a course correction: “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump wrote in a 12:54 a.m. Twitter post. |
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 | WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING | Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he has tested negative for COVID-19 days after debating President Donald Trump, who announced early Friday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. | |
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President Donald Trump went to a New Jersey fundraiser for his reelection campaign on Thursday, mingling with crowds and posing for photographs mere hours before he tweeted that he’d tested positive for the coronavirus. | |
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s gender, age and weight are all factors that make him more vulnerable to developing severe COVID-19, and give him a notional risk of around 4% of dying from it, health experts said on Friday. | |
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President Donald Trump’s announcement that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus dominated global news, shook financial markets and spurred an outpouring of commentary from world leaders and others. The common theme: The U.S. is a mess. | |
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