Days after a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence tested positive for COVID-19, the White House is now requiring staffers in the West Wing wear face coverings or masks. Several months into the pandemic, workers close to the president will now be following the same guidance given to the public. But President Donald Trump still declines to wear a mask, and some commentators say that reveals a lot. Aired on 5/11/2020.
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COVID-19 Hits Close To Home As Top White House Aides Test Positive – Day That Was | MSNBC
Why do you guys keep going to giving him the time of day you know he’s insane what you should be doing is just reporting about the Republican Senators and let them know what they put an insane piece of s*** in there and I won’t do nothing about it I start putting them down quit even given him the time of friggin day he’s not worth it
Right! You’ll never win with crazy, you’ll drive YOURSELF insane trying to figure him out,just cancel him and move on! Hes obviously not working with a full deck,I dont despise him, I feel badly for him, and us
You got a point. Trump is a magnet for ire but honestly the republican senate gave us this so I’m inclined to say let’s focus on flipping the senate a bit more.
@Ben Frank you’re right we got to get rid of the rest of the Democrats, and take back the house
snoop alert how much they paying you to be here? They are wasting rubles. You’re not changing anyone’s mind. Only trolling.
@Ben Frank you got to know nobody’s going to elect an open borders sanctuary State loving sanctuary City love gun grabbing
More taxing Democrat
If the wind is blowing the particularites Will Travel
Sean Newhouse so how many parts per million would it take ……….. il wait
Lol 😂….. don’t touch your face you might get infested .
Please! Can’t yet do the moon walk but that would bring it on!
@mrhicks73
Your Nazi Fuhrer Trump will never wear a protective mask. Because when the orange Nazi Fuhrer does his true color will shine through, as his orange face-paint will wear off onto his mask.
Possibly to expose that Trump is a Saudi’s operated Islamic TOKEN? 😁😅😂😂😂
Godless Best,
A.E.
Projectheureka LLC
@mrhicks73 will you wear a mask or not?
I’d say your dining room is a bit more than close to home.
Trump thinking he’s invincible, will be the end of him! Just like every other dictator in history!
@Forza Juve EXACTLY. you are all talk. you just blurt out exactly what the media says word for word and then when you get called out, you back down because you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. So easy, 1 little question and they get defensive LMAO. The answer is ZERO DEATHS. 0.03% of the population have died, the media blew this way out of proportion and you believed every word. Can’t even think for yourself lol how sad.
Michelle Kowalski ….wow….the audacity of a tRump supporter claiming democrats can’t “think for themselves “….now that is the epitome of hypocrisy….FACT!!!!
@Michelle Kowalski over 280,000 dead wordwide, 81,000 of those in america. Hardly something to be proud of.
I read that you had 9 stupid questions. You Trump supporters really are f’ing clueless. But if you want to catch covid be my guest.
@Ivan Evgheni
And “what” REALLY is going on…”IVAN”???
@Michelle Kowalski
China locked down their whole society for 4 months(Dec-Mar). Fact.
So, in response to 2 covid-19 cases, white house now tests everyone daily – while Trump claims that testing is pointless in the rest of the country.
Isn’t it odd, that the workplace whose boss claims that covid-19 will go away like magic * *Poof* * Now has the strongest restrictions?
I mean, while he claims that no restrictions are necessary? – or is it just _everyone else_ that he considers unnecessary?
I would like to get my family and I tested but test sites is nowhere near us…but it’s really pointless like our “president” presentation on the testing it would be to late til my family members get it .. we lose… We got “Trump” by his card … Get it Trump like da card games lol
Bottom line, Trump is an enemy of the state. Working for/with Putin to further destroy America by destroying it’s citizens. Best tool: Covid-19.
Mr. President, you’re right to take wise and prudent precautions, and to encourage governors to make judgements on their circumstances
Cant hide behind or scapegoat nature. Lies are fully exposed.
Your all just money in his families pocket..’all gotta keep them in their luxury.
Space Force Commander: Mr. President we cannot land on the sun, it would incinerate us immediately.
Trump: We could land at night.
@DoubledEdgeSword321 inject disinfectant wasnt a lie, it was just massive stupidity, it wasn’t a lie until he said he was just being sarcastic.
Just as long as he gets his way
@John Crawford “i said it sarcastically..to get a reaction from the press”..then “i was talking to my doctor the experts”..the STUPIDITY is in overdose..getting nausously exhusting and frustrating
This comment is awesome!
@SouthSide Chicago Your useful Nazi baby-boy Trump will never wear a protective mask. Because when the orange Nazi Fuhrer does his true color will shine through, as his orange face-paint will wear off onto his mask.
Possibly to expose that Trump is a Saudi’s operated Islamic TOKEN? 😁😅😂😂😂
Godless Best,
A.E.
Projectheureka LLC
The meltdown as the polls don’t improve will be spectacular. I want to see younger female journalists ask questions of Trump when that happens.
Virus is not the most insidious and deadly occupant of the White House.
@K Adams I have and like you said you it up to you if you vote or not. So when you vote even if it is for the senetor governor the outcome will determine who is elected president which goes to my original point. So basically means America is at fault for Trump actions since your action/inaction got him into the white house. No surprise USA is the laughing stock to your enemies and lost respect by your allies.
@MrYoumitube that’s not true the election of governors, Senator, judges is not tied to the President like that that’s a state issue, the Presidency is not a state issue
@K Adams There is a correlation from the citizens who vote or not on who becomes President. Fact. So how citizens vote impacts the college electoral which determines the outcome of the Presidency.
@MrYoumitube okay you keep running that through your head as you explain how three times in America history were the people voted for one and the college voted for the other
@K Adams The voters in each State choose electors to serve in the Electoral College. The electors in each State meet to select the President and Vice President of the United States. Congress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes (unless Congress passes a law to change the date). Therefore voters ie. citizens have an impact on who becomes President. If you do not want to take responsibility for how your vote or no vote impacts who becomes President well I guess people should not complain how the President runs the country.
“Surprisingly” you can catch covid-19 from one day to another.
Another thing that “the very stable white house genius” believes “nobody knew” that _Everybody_but_him_knew.
Trump’s in way over his head~
He’s also lazy, rude, disrespectful, a bully, and a man with no intellectual depth.
@SouthSide Chicago I’m sorry mate….but the world is laughing at YOU if you follow this orange orangutan….
@SouthSide Chicago why don’t you show us the importance of Trump? Can you do that? What are YOU benefitting from him?
those words are an apt description of America as a whole. just look at the military crimes and misadventures. and so on……
Don’t forget corrupt and incompetent.
He’s a man who has never worked, of course he can’t lead. The only job he’s even done is steal.
Trump is a well known germophobe but his vanity outweighs even that!
Most men grow old gracefully, not Trump.
that, it does… 😳 & the sad part is…. dude aint even good looking. 😕 (not even the slightest bit 🤷♀️)
It’s a power and control thing, not a health worry he has. I know hypochondriacs and germaphobes, and I know how much they are suffering in this pandemic, anxious and compulsively cleaning to the point of distraction. Trump has barely been seen using hand santizer, let alone wear a mask in public places, or take the proper social distancing measures into account by standing 6 feet apart, and rejecting physical contact with other people or high contact surfaces. He *says* he’s a germaphobe because of the response it gets him – people handle his food prep and drinks differently, they ensure the room is sterile, no streaks on glass, or specks on the desktop that he can be distracted by. He can command people to change their behavior around him, or bully people out of his space because he claims it’s for his own health. It’s a load of crock, and nothing more.
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I won’t wear a petri dish on my face. People are wearing the masks wrong. They don’t protect the wearer. Masks are to be worn if you are sick. If you wear a mask when you are healthy it causes you to breathe CO2 and causes your bodies immune system to overreact. If you had the flu or a flu shot in the last few years you already have a coronavirus and will test positive for covid-19 and then you will be ostracized by your friends and family. What if they make you wear a badge on chest like in the concentration camps.
did they leave the microphone so low intentionally so that anyone asking a question has to bow for #45?
exactly my thought. Maybe he wanted to be the last man standing 🤷🏻♂️
@Robert Andrews the rhetorical question was, why is the microphone set so low (see video please), that it forces the journalists the BOW if they want to speak into the mic??? makes no sense, as they have people for setting things up. so it is likely intentional, just a tiny bit of humiliation…
Good question…🤔This happens in a country lead by dictatorship. Everybody has to bow to king while they speak…they dont want anyone to stand infront king.🤐
@Jaydeep Pokhrel but the press is winning because they are not backing off of orange babyman no matter how many tantrums he throws. If he doesn’t come back they have won.
It is to keep the virus low. If one of these reporters hss the virus it can still escape the mask when they talk. The particles of covid19 that escape someone’s mouth can stay in the air longer the higher it is in the air hence compromising everyone. The lower it is, the quicker it falls to the ground. Anyway I just made that up lol.
He did not actually answer the question, right? The question was ‘WHY’ he has not required people to wear the masks before NOW?
@meghnac78 my whole family is Drs and they agree that covid19 is a lie and masks are bad for your health bc ur breathing in ur own carbon dioxide. Also a virus is a cell which has to be attached to a host or living thing therefore viruses don’t live in the air or on surfaces bc the air and a surface is not alive/living thing. This is the beginning of enslavement for the sheeple like urself.
Because it’s just a flu, and it will go away when the weather gets warmer. And remember, he is a warrior, just like the other warriors in the US fighting the good fight for liberating whatever it is they think they are liberating 🙂 (I am being facetious)
@WorldisPsyopKillthe33 Like I said, the doctors in your family should definitely publish their findings. I guess all the other professions I mentioned eventually develop CO2 poisoning or something similar. And they should publish their findings about how viruses cannot live in the air or surfaces. Here is an article from the American Lung Association on different types of airborne viruses and bacteria – https://www.lung.org/clean-air/at-home/indoor-air-pollutants/bacteria-and-viruses Maybe you can write to them and refute them as well. The Nobel Prize awaits.
P.S. I come from a TB endemic country, a notorious airborne disease. You are welcome to write to ICMR (India) and refute their medical knowledge as well.
@Traci K You noticed that too. Not from each other but “me.” It’s always me, me, me…
Because he is a Constitutional President. Requiring people to wear a mask violates their civil liberties. MY BODY, MY CHOICE! Remember? Besides the press takes off their masks as soon as they think the cameras are off. Have you heard the hot mic catches…the reporters on mic say that the # of fatalities is actually really low and that the states are acually getting paid by the fed government for every covid case they diagnose and treat plus for every pt on a ventilator they get $39k, Hospitals are getting more that double what they get for reg flu or pneumonia pts. Tell me there is no room for corruption there.
This is the worst leader in the world including communisrs leaders… this guy Trump is crazy.
I’m sorry, but I would consider 45% of America’s stupid for electing this Stupid..
He is the worst ….
A Criminal, A Pig, and A Traitor !!!
@Barbara Majer and let us all pray he doesn’t get Corona virus. We want to see him in an orange jail suit.
Vladimir Putin SELECTED Trump!
Barbara Majer American dictator with total power.
It’s closer to 36%.
It’s getting to the point where the person who gives Trump the virus will become a national hero!
@olrik parlez Ouch! I never listen to her talking. The very first few times i did. Not anymore. I get this feeling … and you are right. That creepy feeling. Feeding on rot huh?
I have commented on this. I have always wondered how she shares her bed with her hubby. Day time, talk about “alternative facts” for her boss. And knowing her hubby attacking her boss and vice versa … Her kind of fun i guess … White House and her House … oh oh …
@Paul Adams That pairing boggles me. They’ll write a book I suppose after this is over and explain how they managed to stay together. That is…if they manage to stay together. One of the weirdest things I’ve heard of. That chick is batty. Batty and truly malignant.
@Mark GorCheques spelt correctly!! #goodEnglishrocks. Didn’t read your entire comment..’cheques’ got me ✌👏. #onpoint😊. That being said..I will agree with all you’ve said.
@Ptexpress 74 Career politics is a big issue yes, but you can’t deny this president pushes past that to a new level of pathetic.
@Andrew Young no definitely can’t deny that.
It’s increasingly like watching the mad king unravel as his kingdom falls apart.
“Frankly in this case I`m very far away from everyone”
Yes indeed you are!
Tom Klausen …. Hes far away mentally thats for sure.
@Mark W …. Mental distancing?
Tom Klausen …. mentally he can no longer help it. Hes on a parallel planet 🤪😜
Cheeto. You very far away from reality.
@Mark W …. yes on a parallel planet in a parallel universe.
He is never close to Melania. But way too close to Ivanka.
@Frank Winkhorst Sounds credible. That’s the impression I get. She probably wishes the orangutan gets Covid.
@Rob Foam Why do people in the US expect the First Lady to do things? I get there is a tradition in the US regarding this position, but it seems to me like she’s being dragged against her will into politics, just because her husband wanted to run for office. Can’t she just live her life away from the public eye, raise her son and just mind her own business? Seems like a lot of public pressure for someone who didn’t run for office herself and doesn’t want to.
Huhhhhhhhhh
Freaky
Matt Ace In Donnie’s defense, Ivanka is a babe.
Corona virus in the WH..#waiting4it2findthetarget. #Ronapleasefocus #Coronadronestrike
There are more people than 3 in the White house that has coronaviruse.
Reporter: “Why are you not wearing a mask?”
Trump: “You ready? You ready for the answer?”
“I only wear one thing at a time, so it’s gonna be my wig”