Thursday 14 May 2020

Trump and Pence can't meet up even with social distancing

It comes to something when the president of the United States cannot/is not allowed to physically meet up with his vice president to chat about whatever the boss and his deputy chat about. Coronavirus has hit the White House, after one of Trump's military valets and Mike Pence's press secretary tested positive for Covid-19. Both the president and the vice president are healthy and have tested negative every time they have been checked which is daily at the moment. But the White House must be an eerie place right now. Trump and Pence can speak on the phone or do Zoom or whatever but they can't be in the same room at the same time. The Secret Service must be having nightmares playing a sort of hide-and-seek game to keep the two chaps at bay. I can just see it: "Mr Vice President turn left, the president is coming!" I presume that's the same for their respective staffs. The challenge is to make sure neither Trump nor Pence get the virus, and above all to make absolutely sure that if they do get it they don't get it at the same time to put them both out of action, ie incapacitated, for a few weeks because then a scenario which Trump could never allow to happen might have to happen. Nancy Pelosi, as third in line to the throne, as it were, would be marched in to take over the Oval Office until either Trump or Pence got better. Acting President Pelosi. Oh my goodness that would be such misery for Trump. Anyway the very glamorous new White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, has told reporters that both Trump and Pence are so healthy that they, the reporters, should be shouting hurray and yippee. She and the rest of the White House staff, she insists, have not even contemplated a scenario in which both leaders have taken to their beds. So for now Trump and Pence must keep their distance from each other. Remember Mr President and Mr Vice President, Nancy is waiting in the wings.

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