Barron Trump also tested positive for COVID-19, first lady says

[Johnny Dinar]

President Trump’s 14-year-old son, Barron, tested positive for COVID-19 but did not show any symptoms, First Lady Melania Trump disclosed Wednesday, about two weeks after it was revealed that she and the president had contracted the disease.

Both President Trump and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 1 and appear to have since recovered from the disease that has so far killed more than 216,000 Americans. In an update posted Wednesday afternoon on the White House website, Melania Trump said Barron did not initially test positive for COVID-19 following his parents’ diagnosis. His positive result came in a subsequent test, the first lady wrote.

“Luckily he is a strong teenager and exhibited no symptoms,” she said in her statement. “In one way I was glad the three of us went through this at the same time so we could take care of one another and spend time together. He [Barron] has since tested negative.”

As the president was leaving the White House for a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday afternoon, Trump told reporters on the South Lawn that “Barron’s fine.”

 

Melania Trump said she was fortunate that her own diagnosis came with “minimal symptoms” and added that she chose to go the “more natural route in terms of medicine, opting more for vitamins and healthy food.” She wrote that she has tested negative for COVID-19 and hopes to resume her duties soon.

Trump returned to the campaign trail this week. The White House medical team announced last weekend that the president had tested negative “on consecutive days,” after having been treated for COVID-19 for nearly four days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

While hospitalized, Trump was given steroids and experimental drugs.

A view of the White House on Oct. 4, when President Trump was being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump became ill after hosting a series of events that largely ignored social distancing measures designed to stop the spread of the virus. Dozens of attendees at those events, including the Sept. 26 Rose Garden announcement of Amy Coney Barrett as Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court, were also sickened with COVID-19.

It is unclear whether Barron attended the Sept. 26 event.

The White House has declined to reveal precisely how many staffers have fallen ill in recent weeks. Trump’s team has also repeatedly refused to say when he last tested negative for COVID-19 prior to his diagnosis, raising questions about how often the president was being tested for the virus and whether he attended rallies and other events where he might have infected others.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/barron-trump-also-tested-positive-for-covid-19-first-lady-says-205817065.html

[Johnny Dinar]

Melania Trump Is Reportedly Avoiding Donald Trump to Protect Her Reputation

Melania Trump is apparently doing what she can to stay clear of Donald Trump. This is not a new pattern for the First Lady. But, with the president’s recent return from the hospital, and Melania issuing her own personal statement about precautions taken to protect the staff working in the executive residence amid the coronavirus, it’s become apparent she is strategically distancing herself.

“It’s extraordinary in history, and it’s a direct contradiction to the way in which he is behaving,” Myra Gutin, author of The President’s Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century told The Washington Post. Gutin couldn’t think of another time in history when a first lady has released a separate statement in such stark contrast to that of the president’s, especially with an upcoming election.

But, does she really care about the workers who serve them, or is she plotting a strategy to save her reputation? “My guess is that she’s looking out for her own reputation and trying to distance herself from her husband’s apparently cavalier attitude toward safety precautions,” said Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University, to The Washington Post.

 

And the First Lady’s former BFF, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, is in agreement. “She keeps herself mysterious and an enigma for a very, very important reason — to keep everyone away and to let everyone believe what they want to believe,” the former senior advisor told Michael Cohen on his podcast, Mea Culpa. Cohen went on to share his opinion saying, “There was a time that things looked a little bit iffy in their marriage, you may recall, where she wouldn’t hold his hand…it’s very possible that they then sat, they brought the lawyers in and they redid the agreement,” Cohen said. “I think she may have potentially — I’m only speaking from opinion, and I don’t know it to be fact, but I think knowing Melania being calculating — which she is — she may have upped the ante at some point.”

So, maybe Melania is trying to play politics — trying to appear reasonable — and by distancing herself hoping she might help her husband’s reelection campaign. Or, she’s trying to protect her reputation.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/melania-trump-reportedly-avoiding-donald-215315770.html

[bigwave]

Edited October 15, 2020 by bigwave

[KaitlynnD]

First she's avoiding him now she wants a divorce now that he lost the election. Good thing the children already have a good future with Trump because she's definitely not helping.

[MyLadiesDaddy]

FAKE NEWS From evil and deceitful sources. 

[wildeman]

Very sad attempt at fake news and verbal diarrhea gossip. Nothing better to do than to try and make our Pres and very gracious First lady look bad? C'mon man...