One the great ironies of the coronavirus threat is that although President Donald Trump has downplayed its severity, he has a reputation for being a major germaphobe. Journalist Gabriel Sherman, this week in Vanity Fair, reports that Trump is still as much of a “germaphobe” as ever — while treating coronavirus like a battle with his political enemies and insisting that the situation is under control in the United States.
“As Trump pushes a nothing-to-see-here message in public, sources said he’s privately terrified about getting the virus,” Sherman reports. One of Vanity Fair’s sources, according to Sherman, said that Trump is so paranoid that he believes journalists will try to contract coronavirus on purpose in order to give it to him on Air Force One.
That source told Vanity Fair that Trump is “definitely melting down over this.” Continue reading.