Infamously anti-mask, president Donald Trump was meeting with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and top health officials in the Oval Office when he was suddenly interrupted by his own secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sneezing loudly, directly over his shoulder.
“God bless you, Bobby,” riffed Trump, a self-professed germaphobe. “I hope I didn’t catch COVID just there.”
After getting a giggle out of the Oval Office gathering, Trump dragged the joke out by entreating the Pfizer CEO for meds.
“Don’t you have Paxlovid?” Trump asked, referencing Pfizer’s COVID treatment. “He’s got Paxlovid. Give me a Paxlovid immediately!”
If Kennedy were really passing COVID around meetings with Trump, it wouldn’t be the 79-year old president’s first run-in with the virus.
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