Trump Says He Will ‘Most Likely’ Get Tested For Coronavirus

President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference about the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic in the Rose Garden at the White House on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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During a press conference on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he might finally undergo a test for COVID-19.

“I didn’t say I wasn’t going to be tested,” he told a reporter after she asked whether not taking a test was selfish, given that he had made contact with a Brazilian official who turned out to have the coronavirus.

“Are you going to be?” the reporter asked.

“Most likely, yeah,” Trump replied. “Not for that reason, but because I think I will do it anyway.”

He said he was “working out a schedule” to eventually release the results.

Besides the Brazilian official, Trump has also made contact with many conservatives who have had to self-quarantine after being exposed to a coronavirus patient at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) several weeks ago.

The White House has previously said that Trump does not need to be tested.

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  1. Not that we really care at this point…

  2. Avatar for docd docd says:

    They won’t release the results. Instead, they’ll blather on about how his superior genes have protected him despite being exposed. It will go something like "the doctors can’t understand it. They keep saying “a person who has been exposed the way you have should be symptomatic by now. You’re a genetic miracle.”

  3. Does that mean he has symptoms?
    pleasepleasepleaseplease

  4. I would rather Barr than Trump.

    Trump is nothing without Barr

  5. I care. I hope he doesn’t. My hope is that he continues to meet regularly with his extended crime family, the more often, the better. Indeed, were I his doctor I would recommend frequent, extended ass-kissing sessions to cure whatever ails him. It’s worked in the past.

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