‘Top of His Game’: The Day Covid-19 Came to Trump’s White House

Donald Trump’s calendar for October 1 showed a typical day for the president: time for tweeting in the morning, and a trip to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course in the afternoon to raise money for his cash-strapped re-election campaign.

But well out of public view, a crisis was building. A small number of officials at the White House, including Trump, learned that morning that one of his closest aides, Hope Hicks, had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Hope Hicks

Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Bloomberg

Few people inside or outside the White House were told, and there was never serious thought given to ...