Want this to be true for the karma, but do suspect it's a ploy to try something different since he sees the current path likely leads to an election loss.
Get out of at least the second debate (a 14-day quarantine covers 10/15), distract from the tax debacle, and have every MAGAZombie praying for him. Supposing it is real, though. He's in two high-risk categories - over 65 and obese. (Given his diet and the fact that we've never seen his medical records, there may be more than two.) If he dies, Mike Taliban Pence carries his - er - torch. Wonder where the pollsters would put him against Biden?
Oh, and if it's true and if he recovers, he'll solemnly announce that his performance in the first debate was the fault of the virus and he was "not himself... I'm never like that, I promise you."
Assuming it's true... *Gets goosebumps of pleasure on forearms and face* *Rubs them sensually* Mmmmmmmm...
It'll turn out to be "a mild case... like the flu" and it'll "just disappear"... but he'll still have to remain in quarantine and cancel the second debate.
I don't think the personality cult would transfer to him. Pence believes all the same horrible shit, but he's a robot. He won't be able to give the rubes the pro-wrestling villain energy they crave.
If he does get serious symptoms I'm gonna need to pick up some popcorn while I wait the the religious grifters to explain how Trump's illness is God's judgement on perverted liberals.
And how are the kids? That is Eric and Jr and Ivanka and Tiffany and the other kid we don't talk about.
Quarantine needn't stop anyone from joining a town hall meeting via video conference. Unless they're so sick they can't speak, of course.
Melania gave it to him. Its all her fault. He wouldn't stoop to that level would he? I don't trust a word he says!
What if he got it intentionally? He's poised to lose the election, and then an avalanche of legal shit is going to befall him when he's a regular citizen. This is his gentle suicide.
If this scenario comes to pass then the RBG's ghost calling in favours from God theory gets more likely: