Tested positive, Donald Trump hospitalized "for a few days"

The irony of the situation must not have escaped the Democrats.

Again Tuesday evening, during the first debate between him and Joe Biden, Donald Trump mocked his opponent's use of the mask.

He said, making the Democrat smile.

he said, taking the piece of cloth out of his pocket.

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Two days later, the first “October surprise”, which the Republican camp would have done well, had the effect of a cataclysm: after months spent minimizing the dangerousness and consequences of Covid-19, the president announced Thursday evening to have tested positive, just like his wife, Melania.

, he assured on Twitter.

A few hours earlier, he declared that "

, during a dinner for a fundraiser at the White House.

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19.

We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately.

We will get through this TOGETHER!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

But Friday night, thunderclap!

Donald Trump's spokesperson announced that he would be admitted to hospital

said Kayleigh McEnany.

White House doctor Sean P. Conley also said the president

and has received experimental treatment, synthetic antibodies.

It is not known where and how the president, tested daily, could have been contaminated.

But the announcement comes as one of her collaborators, Hope Hicks, tested positive after developing symptoms during a meeting in Minnesota.

Information that the White House would have initially wanted to keep silent.

The president, however alerted to the state of the young woman, maintained Thursday his participation in a fundraiser in his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in contact with a hundred participants.

Hope Hicks, who has privileged access to the Oval Office, had traveled aboard Air Force One to attend the first presidential debate on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio.

Many advisers, as well as Trump's adult children, were also on the presidential plane.

None were seen wearing a mask, boarding or disembarking.

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At the White House, tests were launched urgently among the ranks of close staff and advisers, who notably participated in restricted sessions to prepare for the debate.

Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett, who had been received by Trump, tested negative.

Just like Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Vice President Mike Pence, who could be brought in to replace Donald Trump in the event of incapacity.

Among the avalanche of messages of support, Joe Biden wished him a

.

Vladimir Poutine, meanwhile, judged that his

would allow him to defeat this

.

But the president, who described himself in 2017 as

and considered the handshakes

, is considered a person at risk, because of his 74 years and his overweight, which ranks him medically among the obese.

Multiplying the puzzling signals, he wondered in April about the technical possibility of injecting himself with detergent to kill the virus, before announcing in May that he was taking hydroxychloroquine preventively.

He finally appeared for the first time in public mask on July 11, when the pandemic had already been killing massively for months.

Political challenge

The quarantine of the president, 32 days before the election and 13 days before the second presidential debate, upsets an electric campaign, already disrupted by the coronavirus.

The president-candidate had to cancel a trip to the key state of Florida on Friday, as well as a meeting on Saturday in Wisconsin, a state decisive in his victory four years ago.

But above all, his contamination with Covid-19 has put under the spotlight a virus whose dangerousness and consequences he has been trying to minimize for months.

The coronavirus kills a thousand Americans a day on average, bringing the death toll across the United States to 207,000 to date, or 20% of deaths worldwide (for 5% of the population).

The pandemic has also devastated an economy which he intended to use as his main electoral argument, constantly advocating for the rapid reopening of businesses and schools.

In mid-September, after months of irony at scientists and attacks on the World Health Organization (WHO), Trump was accused of lying to Americans.

In his book

, reporter Bob Woodward, revealed that despite realizing the severity of the crisis earlier this year, the president

the importance of the virus so as not to

.

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Rather than the coronavirus - which Democrats have tried to exploit to their advantage - the president preferred to focus his campaign on Biden's attributed relationship with the radical left, racial violence or alleged fraud linked to postal voting.

In fact, poll after poll, the vast majority of Americans severely judge its management of the virus.

In addition to the medical risk to which he exposes him, the Covid throws him a double-edged political challenge: if he triumphs without difficulty, it will strengthen his image as a solid and energetic man;

if, on the contrary, disabling symptoms appear, its ability to finish the campaign and its credibility with voters may suffer.

His supporters, often hostile to the mask, would they then continue to put the pandemic into perspective?

What about the undecided in key states, where the polls place him behind his rival?

And Joe Biden, who tested negative after his maskless debate with Trump, will he be able to continue his campaign without appearing to shoot the ambulance?

By the admission of the creator of the

, Beau Willimon, such a rebound

if it had been proposed by writers.