Week After Photo with Infected Man, Trump Announces He's Taken Coronavirus Test

Trump Announces He's Taken Coronavirus Test

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By Joe Setyon

Published March 14, 2020 at 9:53am

President Donald Trump said Saturday he had been tested for the coronavirus and was awaiting the results.

Trump previously said he’d likely get tested, though the White House physician said Friday night that a test was not necessary.

Trump’s most recent remarks came during a news briefing at the White House.

“I also took the test last night,” the president told reporters.

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“I decided I should based on the press conference yesterday. People were asking ‘did I take the test,'” Trump added, referring to his remarks Friday in the Rose Garden.

Trump had told reporters during that media conference that he’d like get tested, but was not sure when.

“We’re working on a schedule,” he said, according to CNN.

Trump was asked by a reporter Saturday when he’d get his results back. “I don’t know, whatever it takes — a day, or two days,” he said. “Whatever it is. They send it to a lab.”

He added that he took the test “only because the press” had focused on it so much.

Trump took the test roughly a week after he was photographed with Fabio Wajngarten, the communications secretary for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Trump had met with the Brazilian leader at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Poster Comment:

Maybe Trump worked out a deal to make Brazil stop dumping their short term U.S. Bonds into the secondary markets. As of recently, the FED has been buying up everything China and Brazil have been dumping. But that cannot go on forever.