Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, tests positive for coronavirus

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, tests positive for coronavirus Guilfoyle was supposed to be in South Dakota on Friday.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., tested positive for the novel coronavirus while in South Dakota.

She had been expected to attend Friday night's event at Mount Rushmore. Sources familiar added Trump Jr. tested negative.

Neither has been in direct contact with the president and did not fly on Air Force One. She is asymptomatic.

"After testing positive, Kimberly was immediately isolated to limit any exposure. She’s doing well, and will be retested to ensure the diagnosis is correct since she’s asymptomatic, but as a precaution will cancel all upcoming events," Sergio Gor, chief of staff for the Trump Victory Finance Committee, said in a statement. "Donald Trump Jr was tested negative, but as a precaution is also self isolating and is canceling all public events."

In this July 11, 2019, file photo, Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, right, and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, listen as President Donald Trump speaks about the 2020 census in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP, File

Trump Jr., 42, and Guilfoyle, 51, will be driving home rather than getting on a flight, a source said.

Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host, serves as the national chair of Trump Victory Finance Committee 2020, the president's reelection campaign, and is focused specifically on fundraising. She and Trump Jr. often headline fundraising events together.

The event the couple was expected to attend, a July Fourth celebration at Mount Rushmore, has been a long-planned goal of President Donald Trump. Friday's fireworks celebration, expected to draw thousands, caps off a week during which the U.S. has set alarming new records of daily coronavirus cases -- upwards of 50,000 a day -- and public health experts have raised alarms that the crowds could produce a "super-spreader" event.

The large-scale event openly flouts Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations to avoid spreading the coronavirus, with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem offering a blunt message to those concerned: There will be no social distancing.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, right, and Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, left, sit with President Donald Trump, background left, and first lady Melania Trump, center, during Christmas Eve dinner at Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Andrew Harnik/AP, File

"We told those folks that have concerns that they can stay home, but those who want to come and join us, we'll be giving out free face masks, if they choose to wear one. But we won't be social distancing. We're asking them to come, be ready to celebrate, to enjoy the freedoms and the liberties that we have in this country," Noem said in an interview with Fox News on Monday.

Guilfoyle and Trump started dating in 2018. She is the ex-wife of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

luiyuen on July 4th, 2020 at 14:09 UTC »

New revelations for me:

Don Jr. isn't married.

Someone is actually dating him.

The woman dating him looks like his father's wife.

The woman dating him used to be married to CA Governor Gavin Newsom.

I just always assumed Don Jr. was a mutated asexual clone of his father with the paper marriage and pre-nup to prove it.

WonderfulResult on July 4th, 2020 at 13:27 UTC »

Normally I'd think that if someone's son got Covid then it's likely their father would as well. But I doubt Donald loves Don Jr enough to actually spend time with him so the President is likely safe.

bubbabear244 on July 4th, 2020 at 13:19 UTC »

The fact that Don Jr's girlfriend looks like a discount Melania is all kinds of Freudian.