So, President Trump has COVID. That's all I got. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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the big news of the day of the month of the year is that President Trump has been confirmed to

have COVID. He tweeted this news out last night.

He tweeted out that he and the first lady have both been tested positive for COVID. He tweeted

tonight. Flotis and I tested positive for COVID-19. We'll begin our quarantine and recovery

process immediately. We will get through this together. And, you know, naturally, all the same people on Twitter with the blue check marks, who you would expect, have been just about as nasty as you would expect. Some people have not been. Some people have been pretty classy about it. We'll get to that in a second. But the White House doctor did release a note on this. The White House doctor acknowledging that the president has come down with COVID. Here is the letter. It says, I release the following information with the permission of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. This evening, I received confirmation that both President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for SARS COVID-2 virus. The President and First Lady are both well at this time. They plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence the white house medical team and i will maintain a vigilant watch i appreciate the support provided by some of our country's greatest medical professions and institutions rest assured i expect the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering i'll keep you updated on any future developments now obviously we don't know the direction that covid-19 is going to take the The president is 74 years old. He is overweight, which is a complicating factor. It is a pre-existing

condition. It is an underlying condition that can exacerbate the effect of COVID-19. So far,

it has been reported that the president of the United States has a mild case, or at least the symptoms

are mild. We'll see how this plays forward.

Honestly, I think from political point of view, obviously politics come second. So our prayers

go out to the Trump family, just as they go out to any family that is suffering with COVID-19,

which can, in fact, be a very serious disease. Politically speaking, this throws a wrench into

a lot of what's going on because we have a debate that is scheduled for about two weeks from now, presumably if the president goes through the process and then he quarantines for 14 days, he will get out, I believe, literally the day of the debate to do that debate. So it throws a wrench into that. It obviously throws a wrench into his campaign schedule. He's not going to be going out and doing public events for quite a while because he's supposed to, according to the CDC, quarantine for 10 to 14 days. We have to see, of course, the vector that the disease is going to take, which direction the disease is going to take. The political fallout here is pretty obvious for Trump. And the political fallout,

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