Dastardly Don's valet tests positive

The White House rapidly increased coronavirus testing for those around President Donald Trump and took other emergency measures Thursday after a staffer whose job potentially put him in close daily contact with the president had tested positive for the coronavirus.

The possible exposure marks the president's closest known contact with an infected person since the early days of the U.S. response to the pandemic and raises the possibility of the virus spreading in the West Wing.

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Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have since tested negative.

  Houston Chronicle

For now. Trump will be getting tested twice at day now probably.  And everybody who goes into the same room with him will get tested at the door.

The infected staffer is one of Trump's personal valets, the military staff who sometimes serve meals and look after personal needs of the president. That would mean the president, Secret Service personnel and senior members of the White House staff could have had close or prolonged contact with the aide before the illness was diagnosed.

What do you want to bet Melania hasn't been within thirty feet of Trump for weeks now?

Staffers held a series of meetings and discussions Thursday on what else could be done to protect the president, including broader use of face masks.

NOW they think face masks are necessary.

Relatively few staffers who interact frequently with the president wear masks. One who did, National Security Council deputy Matthew Pottinger, drew snickers from his colleagues, according to aides.

Not snickering now, are they?

The president said testing of White House staff will now be done daily, rather than about once per workweek.

Uh-huh. Will it scare him enough to back off those forays into the public he's started to take?

What every MAGAhead wants to know is, was the guy a Democrat or Chinese plant?

Be watching for Trump to do a Kim Jong Un disappearing act for a while.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.