The last time Trump said he tested negative for COVID-19 was in May, and the White House refuses to say if he's tested negative since
President Donald Trump pretends to take a Covid-19 test while holding a swab during his visit of the Puritan Medical Products facility in Guilford, Maine on June 5, 2020.The White House has repeatedly refused to disclose when President Donald Trump last tested negative for COVID-19.
The last time Trump or anyone at the White House said the president tested negative on the record was on May 21. It's unclear how frequently Trump has been tested since, and he has repeatedly violated coronavirus restrictions by holding public events with large crowds. When asked when Trump was last tested and if the White House could specify any results between May 21 and Trump's positive one on Oct. 2, a White House spokesman said only that "the president is tested regularly."Despite the seismic implications of the president of the United States contracting a deadly and highly infectious disease with no cure, the White House is still providing very little basic information about Donald Trump's coronavirus status.
Aside from his positive test announcement last Friday — which led to him being hospitalized with COVID-19 for three nights — the last time Trump was on the record about taking a test was back in May, when heBetween Trump's "positively toward negative" disclosure on May 21 and the tweet confirming he had tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2, the White House would not point Insider toward any specific instances when Trump even took a test.
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