"They want to kiss": Trump appears to blame troops and cops for spreading virus to his inner circle ....
Wow just fucking wow ...
President Donald Trump appeared to
blame members of the military and law enforcement units for
spreading COVID-19 to his inner circle in a Thursday
interview with Fox News host
Sean Hannity when he claimed that uniformed officials often want to "hug" and "kiss" members of his team out of gratitude for
the "good job" the administration has done.
"You know, it's very hard, when you're with soldiers, when you're with airmen, when you're with Marines. And I'm with — and the police officers," the president said, not long after reports surfaced that top adviser
Hope Hicks had contracted the virus. "
I'm with them so much. And when they come over here, it's very hard to say, 'Stay back. Stay back.' It's a tough kind of a situation."
Trump, who the White House at one point
claimed was being checked "multiple" times a day for COVID-19, told Hannity that he would undergo testing following Hicks' positive diagnosis. The president later disclosed in an early-morning tweet on Friday that
he and the first lady had both tested positive and would quarantine for 14 days. (The diagnosis revelation became Trump's most "liked" and shared tweet,
according tothe Agence France-Press, accruing more than 1.2 million likes within an eight-hour span.)
"I just went for a test, and we'll see what happens. I mean, who knows?" Trump said to Hannity. "But you know her very well. She's fantastic, and she's done a great job."
The president then returned to the topic of troops and police.
"But it's very, very hard when you are with people from the military or law enforcement, and they come over to you,
and they want to hug you. And they want to kiss you, because we really have done a good job for them,"
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Trump added. "And you get close, and things happen. I was surprised to hear, with Hope. But she's a very warm person with them, and she — she knows there's a risk, but she is young."
