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President, first lady test
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By Jill Colvin
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WASHINGTON — The
White House said Friday that
President Donald Trump was
suffering “mild symptoms” of
COVID-19, making the stun-
ning announcement after he
returned from an evening fund-
raiser without telling the crowd
he had been exposed to an aide
with the disease that has killed
a million people worldwide.
The revelation that the
president of the United States
and first lady Melania Trump
had tested positive, tweeted by
Trump early Friday morning,
plunged the country deeper
into uncertainty just a month
before the presidential election.
However, White House aides
said he was in good spirits and
working in quarantine in the
family quarters.
Trump has spent much
of the year downplaying the
threat of a virus that has killed
more than 205,000 Americans.
His diagnosis was sure to
have a destabilizing effect in
Washington and around the
world, raising questions about
how far the virus has spread
through the highest levels of
the U.S. government. Hours be-
fore Trump announced he had
contracted the virus, the White
House said a top aide who had
traveled with him during the
week had tested positive.
“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I
tested positive for COVID-19.
We will begin our quarantine
and recovery process immedi-
ately,” Trump tweeted just be-
fore 1 a.m. “We will get through
this TOGETHER!”
While House chief of staff
Mark Meadows on Friday tried
to assure the public that Trump
was conducting business as
usual, even as he confirmed
that the White House knew
Hope Hicks, the aide, had
tested positive before Trump at-
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President Donald Trump and fi rst lady Melania Trump.
tended a Thursday fundraiser
in New Jersey.
“I can tell you in terms of
Hope Hicks, we discovered
that right as Marine One was
taking off yesterday,” said
Meadows. Several staffers were
pulled from the trip, but Trump
did not cancel, even after hav-
ing been exposed to Hicks.
Vice President Mike Pence
tested negative for the virus on
Friday morning and “remains
in good health,” his spokesman
said.
Many White House and
senior administration of-
ficials were undergoing tests
Friday, but the full scale of the
outbreak around the president
may not be known for some
time as it can take days for an
infection to be detectable by a
test. Officials with the White
House Medical Unit were trac-
ing the president’s contacts.
Trump was considering how
he might address the nation or
otherwise communicate with
the American people Friday, an
official added.
Trump was last seen by re-
porters returning to the White
House on Thursday evening
and did not appear ill. He is 74
years old and clinically obese,
putting him at higher risk of
serious complications from a
virus that has infected more
than 7 million people nation-
wide.
The president’s physician
said in a memo that Trump
and the fi rst lady, who is 50,
“are both well at this time”
and “plan to remain at home
within the White House during
their convalescence.” Their son
Barron, who lives at the White
House, tested negative.
Trump has been trying all
year to convince the American
public that the worst of the
pandemic is behind them. In
the best of cases, if he de-
velops no symptoms, which
can include fever, cough and
breathing trouble, it will likely
force him off the campaign trail
just weeks before the election
and puts his participation in
the second presidential debate,
scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami,
into doubt.
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