'People are scared': White House in disarray as members of Trump's inner circle exposed to COVID-19

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Speaking with hosts Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul, Homes stated that the news that CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Anthony Fauci and FDA Director Stephen Hahn have all gone into one form of quarantine or another after two White House staffers tested positive for the coronavirus has rocked staffers who are still coming in everyday during the health crisis.


“This is clearly not the narrative that the White House wants to have right now,” Holmes began. “Remember just last week, President Trump broke his self-isolation and went to Arizona. That trip was meant to really signal that the country was ready to reopen; we’ve seen states slowly working to reopen their different businesses. We know people are going back to work and that’s what the White House wanted to be talking about.”

“Now the narrative is completely different, it is people are scared, and it’s in the place where it’s essentially the safest place in the country arguably,” she continued. “People are still getting sick here. What does that say? And what does it say if three of the top doctors on the front line fighting this virus are now quarantining themselves for 14 days?”

“Why? Because they came into contact with someone who tested positive. Where? Here at the White House,” she explained. “So, it’s clearly a shift in narrative, what we are talking about. Will anything actually change? That’s the big question now. Well, on Friday, after the vice president’s press secretary tested positive, a memo went out to all staffers, essentially said that they were taking stronger measures to protect them, to prevent the spread of coronavirus. That meant heightened cleaning in high touch-point places. It also meant at some points they would be maintaining maximum staff teleworking. One thing that wasn’t mentioned, though, was masks.”

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and like first responders-----they go home to their families--potentially putting them at risk!!

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[Squinch]

1. Oh, come on. They should just be warriors. It's no worse than the flu

and if they get it they'll probably live.

And the economy is so much more important than they are! Surely they understand that!

[SergeStorms]

23. That's correct...

"The cure can't be worse than the disease", right?

[docgee]

43. Unless the disease IS the cure?

[mjvpi]

34. They forgot that the virus believes in science.

[Newest Reality]

2. Hasn't

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Hasn't the White House been in disarray for a few years now? That's the norm.

I think of Trump and Pence as holding the White House hostage. It is hard to be concerned about hostage takers and I am certainly not worried about mayhem or afraid of it in that respect since that's the nature of the Administration itself.

[wnylib]

53. Yes, but it's such sweet irony to

watch them trying to promote the message that all is well and it's time to open up everything while the virus itself is sending the opposite message by infecting or exposing them, one after the other.

[Newest Reality]

54. You bet.

It's delicious.

[mwb970]

3. What is it with trump cultists and masks??

Here in Ohio one republican state legislator said that wearing a mask "covers up the face of God" or some impossibly crazy BS like that. What is going on with these people? I mean really.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. They are narcissitic sociopaths

Where every interaction is transactional,they have no empathy.
With rethugs it's money,ego and power over others with no responsibility for anyone else that gets harmed by them..

[Scarsdale]

12. I can understand why Moscow Mitch

does not wear a mask. Where would the part that goes under his chin go, since he has no chin? His lower lip just sort of morphs into his chest. I think Don Jr. has that problem, too. Eric should welcome mask wearing, since it would cover up his gummy "smile".

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. LOL.

😷

[lunatica]

49. They'd be so much better looking if their faces were covered

[Scarsdale]

51. So true, but

I'm afraid some voters would be turned off if they wore their usual head covering, KKK hoods.

[lunatica]

52. LOL!

[subterranean]

30. They are just following the example of their leader.

He said masks are optional, and doesn't wear one himself, so why should they be forced to?

[EndlessWire]

45. WHY CAN'T THEY ALL GET SICK?? N/T

[wnylib]

56. Isn't rhat what's happening now?

The virus is now gradually making its way through the WH. I don't know how Trump and Pence have managed to evade it so far. (Unless that's what Trump had in November when he went to Walter Reed).

[Docreed2003]

4. "People are scared"

How do these fucks think the American people have felt for months?? Typical conservatives, it only matters when you're personally affected.

[Blues Heron]

5. they wouldn't/weren't allowed to wear masks

it's not rocket science.

[PatSeg]

6. Brings to mind

Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death. The virus has penetrated the fortress and no one knows who is carrying it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. More like mask of the orange death.

[2naSalit]

15. +1

[Grokenstein]

17. I can't stop posting this quote from the Roger Corman film.

"I promised them safety!"
"You presumed too much."
"I know, I know! But it does make a fine jest!"
-- Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) bragging to the Red Death about how he lured people into his cult, corrupted them, then sacrificed them to Satan

[PatSeg]

31. Oh yes

How many times did Trump say, "I was just kidding" or "I was being sarcastic"?

[LuvLoogie]

26. My CT..

Ivanka caught it during her worldwide affairs of state. She gave it to Pops and that Australian official. Pops gave it to the Brazilian cabinet at Mar-A-Gogo.

Now Pops is giving it to his whole crew.

[PatSeg]

33. Oh, perfect scenario

I'm just imagining a lot of people freaking out in the White House right now. Shit's finally getting real for the Trump gang, can't lie their way out of this one. COVID-19 don't care, it just does what it does and apparently very efficiently. A gift that keeps on giving.

[lunatica]

50. Everyone in the White House just took a step backwards from each other

Whoops!

[PatSeg]

55. And I can just picture

their minds going through every interaction they've had in the last week or so. Lots of paranoia going on I'm sure.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Idiots. All of them. They brought the CV on to themselves, and thus, only have themselves...

to blame, but they aren't blaming themselves. I have heard one commentator blaming the workers no less, in the meat packing plants for bringing the CV into the plants. Trying to deflect blame already, and I suspect we'll see far more of this blaming game.

Ironically enough, maybe it's the finger of God, punishing these idiots who are ignoring common sense guidelines to self isolate, be safe and careful, that are falling prone to the CV? Advice that the WH ignored because rump is above it all, pence is above it all, etc. (I'm going to throw up here for a few seconds).

Because after all, God didn't tell us to be stupid, and walk in front of a moving truck or car, and be irresponsible w/ our lives. Maybe all would be better off not listening to these idiots in the WH? I kind of think everyone is ignoring these idiots in the WH now. After all, it literally is, a life or death matter. Who are you going to believe, CUOMO or other persons that are doing as CUOMO is doing, or rump/pence?

[Captain Zero]

28. They are attracting what they deny

That is killing others.

[UpInArms]

10. There are more important things than living ...

Why don’t they just get with the program and die for the economy?

'More important things than living': GOP Texas Lt. Gov. pushes for reopening state

WASHINGTON – GOP Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick doubled down on earlier controversial comments he made about reopening his state, saying late Monday that there are "more important things than living.”

Speaking during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Patrick, 70, said he was “vindicated” after receiving backlash for his March comments where he stated “lots of grandparents” would rather gamble their lives with the coronavirus than see an unstable economy.

[Paladin]

11. Those words ought to be inscribed on Dan Patrick's tombstone.

In the very near future, it is hoped.

[Solly Mack]

13. Suck it up, warriors.Your economy needs you.

Remember what the good book says:

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for the economy.

[mjvpi]

37. The one true religion practiced world wide.

He’s just proving Americans are more devout.

[Girard442]

14. "Clearly a shift in narrative..."

Is that what the captain of the Titanic said when he learned five compartments were taking on water?

[Grokenstein]

16. They should just "let it wash over" them!

I suppose being "pure" (as Don-Don described those veterans he put at risk for a photo-op the other day) is out of the question for swine in the Trump Maladministration. But they could try having a televangelist pray it away, or drink a gallon of Clorox and shove a lit bulb up their asses.

[splunge63]

18. thoughts and prayers

[EndlessWire]

46. LOL! n/t

[Bayard]

19. It would be fitting

If all of trump's babysitters had to go into quarantine. He couldn't function at all.

[KWR65]

20. Could this be Jehovah God's Judgment upon the Trump Administration?

Just askin...?

[mwb970]

21. The anti-safety arguments make no sense.

I saw a guy who was briefly interviewed as he sat in his car waiting for a red traffic light. He said that the government was not going to tell him what he can and cannot do, by God!

He was waiting at a red traffic light.

[sarchasm]

25. I always said...

...if you have a coexist bumper sticker, YOU MUST ALWAYS USE YOUR TURN SIGNAL.

[yonder]

57. Good. I've been using that traffic signal analogy

when I encounter into those anti-government types. Sometimes the light clicks, usually not.

"So how did you get here today"?

Drove ma truck.

"Drove your truck, eh? You drove on paved roads, right"?

Yup.

"Did you have to stop for any lights"?

A few.

"So you drove on a socialist road system, paid for by our tax dollars and when the commie sign and signal system tells you how to proceed, you generally obey those signs, right" -- in order to protect yourself and others while avoiding a chaotic mess"? "Am I right"?

I guess.....yeah but, I don't have to obey laws....if I don't wanna...you see, I can't afford any more points on my license....

[ffr]

22. Snowflakes! IT'S ALL A HOAX. There's no such new virus, we made it up!

[oldsoftie]

38. Yes. There are several videos on youtube telling us this was all PLANNED.

Gates & Fauci are working together. Its all there. YouTube tells us so!!

[sarchasm]

24. The schandenfreud is strong with this post...

...said with as much glee as possible.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

27. It's all a hoax until it's not.

Then he'll blame Obama.

[Dopers_Greed]

29. I'm just so sick of the hysteria

Whoever exposed the White House, it was "their body, their choice."

And those who would give up liberty for safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

[NCjack]

32. Suck it up, soldiers! Think of yourselves as already dead. It's the Trump

mission that is important. You must save the economy for the 1%.

[Ford_Prefect]

35. No fucking masks!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????? And this idiocy makes them Brave???????

They should all be arrested and quarantined as a menace to navigation and public health.

Then put some people in charge who really mean to get something constructive done.

I have ZERO sympathy for anyone enabling this. NONE!

[larwdem]

36. fuck them

one and all

[zentrum]

40. Hey Trump staffers! You lie

...down with dogs you wake up with fleas.

(No offense to dogs or fleas.)

[Harry Walpurgisnacht]

41. Case in Point from Politico:

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett acknowledged on Sunday it’s risky to work in the White House now that several staff have tested positive for the coronavirus.

“It’s scary to go to work,” he said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"I'll wear a mask when I feel it's necessary," he explained, noting he had one with him for Sunday’s interview.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/10/kevin-hassett-scary-to-go-to-work-246972

I'd post more that, but Hassett goes on to talk about "serving the country," which I find nauseating when it comes from a member of this "administration."

[turbinetree]

42. Well like the old saying goes ...........Play around and Lay around..........

...........none...........

[Maxheader]

44. Cheneys bunker...

..can they crowd the whole lot in there?..

[EndlessWire]

47. In other countries

the people pray for their leaders to stay well. In this country, there are literally millions of citizens hoping and wishing to wake up to the news that Trump, Pence, and McConnell come down with this virus. Really, a lot of bad vibes being hurled their way--like Molotov Cocktails, thrown over the WH fence.

Better than nothing, and I'll deal with my guilt later. Meanwhile, I want to know where the PPEs are. And, did you safeguard the children in cages at the border?

President Biden can't get here soon enough. Of course, the old joke about having to Lysol the WH after Trump leaves seems literally quite true.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

48. Heh heh heh!

[wnylib]

58. With members of the coronavirus task force

going in quarantine now, including Dr.Fauci, I keep thinking about them huddled clos together for pressers. No social distancing.

So how do so many people around Trump and Pence get sick, but they don't?

[karin_sj]

59. That's what I keep wondering too

[wnylib]

60. Something peculiar there that needs

looking into.

[Omaha Steve]

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