President Trump is being helicoptered to Walter Reed Hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The media are following the story closely and most journalists are trying very hard to be professional.

Still, the media can’t help indulging its great monomania of the past four years: finding a way to magic Trump out of politics forever.

In its morning coverage of the President’s illness, the New York Times immediately raced to what it saw as a perfectly reasonable suggestion: Trump must go off the ballot!

‘Mr Trump’s positive test result posed immediate challenges for the future of his campaign against former vice president Joseph R....