President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis has been met with widespread skepticism from the president's critics.
tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, along with Counselor to the President Hope Hicks.
The Trumps are now self-isolating at the White House but some critics of the president found his diagnosis highly suspect. Skeptics took to social to argue—without evidence—that the positive test was a hoax.about the president's diagnosis. Winslow was just one of many users, some with verified blue ticks, to claim the timing of the announcement was too convenient for Trump to be a coincidence."I will just say this," Winslow wrote.
"Dear@realDonaldTrump," he said."Assuming it's true you have tested positive but assuming it is true WHY is it now COVID-19? You have ALWAYS called it the China Virus? What changed?"reported in June that Trump had made 20,000 false or misleading statements since taking office on January 20, 2017. The newspaper's fact-checkers said:"The tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.
Author and journalist David Simon joined those questioning Trump's diagnosis, also pointing to the president's record of misleading statements. Like several other social media users, Simon framed the supposed hoax as a political ploy."Honestly, when a man lies so damn much, am I wrong to imagine another cry of wolf for an October surprise?" Simon wrote.
Honestly, when a man lies so damn much, am I wrong to imagine another cry of wolf for an October surprise? That Trump is claiming a positive test, will present as asymptomatic, or claim himself cured with bleach, then dismiss COVID again as a Democratic hoax? I'm wrong, right?
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