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President Trump shared the results of his latest coronavirus test with reporters outside the White House on Thursday afternoon, and it got a bit … confusing.
While telling the press corps that he believed he had one more day left in his controversial hydroxychloroquine treatment to ward off COVID-19, the president segued into this convoluted health update:
“ ‘And I tested very positively in another sense, this morning. I tested positively toward negative, right? So I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning I tested negative. … But that’s a way of saying it: positively toward the negative.’ ”
Got that?
Watch it below, or catch the president’s full remarks on CSPAN.
The quote drew some comparisons on Twitter TWTR, +0.34% with Steve Carell’s “The Office” character Michael Scott, who infamously misunderstood a cancer screening’s coming back negative as being a dire diagnosis in a Season 2 episode.
“Well, apparently, in the medicine community, ‘negative’ means good,” he says in the episode. “Which makes absolutely no sense. In the real-world community, that would be chaos.”
The president was en route to Michigan, where he will visit a Detroit-area Ford F, +2.55% plant that is making medical breathing machines to treat coronavirus patients.
