Donald Trump may have had coronavirus for a lot longer than he claims
On Tuesday evening the New York Times broke the news that, despite his frequent public claims to the contrary, Donald Trump wasn’t actually being tested for coronavirus on a daily basis. This means that when he tested positive on Thursday, he could have already had it for any number of days. It raises new questions about the timeline.
For instance, consider this. We know that the current outbreak traces back at least to the Rose Garden super spreader event the Saturday before the debate. If this is when Trump was infected, then he may have been showing symptoms by the time the debate took place three days later. That’s why his behavior during the debate is so notable in hindsight.
One thing that stood out to me during the debate was that Trump didn’t put on his usual sniffing, jittery routine, like he usually does. This suggested that he didn’t follow his customary pre-debate pattern of abusing Adderall or cocaine or whichever upper it is that he likes to put up his nose. But despite the lack of nose candy, Trump ended up being far more aggressive during the debate than usual. Manically aggressive.
In fact the manically raging, incoherently behaving, explosively out of control Donald Trump that we saw on that debate stage feels a lot like the Donald Trump we’re currently seeing on Twitter. It’s enough to make you at least ask if perhaps Trump was sick with coronavirus by the debate, and didn’t take his Adderall because he was either afraid it would kill him, or because doctors were already treating him with dexamethasone.
This is all pretty far-out. But by now we know this is going to end up having a far-out explanation one way or the other. Donald Trump’s remaining henchmen are going way too far out of their way to try to avoid answering the question of when his last negative test took place. That’s because whatever the answer is, it reveals something ugly and scandalous that Trump doesn’t want revealed. It’ll come out eventually.
