TRUMP GOT COVID

"...the Lectern remained covered with a garbage bag."

Such fitting symbolism for this whole shitshow.

lectern has to wear a mask too, give it a break

meanwhile, outside of the hospital, the discourse grows louder

Early Sunday afternoon. Thirty days until the election. Donald Trump’s supporters were holding history’s loudest vigil outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, where the president’s oxygen levels were being monitored as he struck boardroom poses for the camera. Fifty supporters danced on the northbound curb of Rockville Pike, elbows and knees within inches of side-view mirrors moving at 40 mph. The blare of horns competed with AC/DC and Lee Greenwood.

Men with bullhorns walked around, calling for “eight more years,” praying to God, needling journalists and the handful of protesters across the street, at the intersection of the pike and South Wood Road. A spry older woman ran up and down the two-foot-wide median as “Eye of the Tiger” played on a portable speaker. She had a white Trump flag tied around her waist and a blue Trump flag aloft in her wriggling arms. Her purse swung into the path of BMWs and minivans whooshing by. “TRUMP FOREVER,” the woman on the median shrieked. “TRUMP FOREVER. TRUMP FOREVER.”

"Born in the USA" was trending on Twitter yesterday because Trump supporters were blasting it outside the hospital. If it weren't for all the sick people in the hospital who are just trying to get some rest, I would love the idea of Trump's supporters forcing him to listen to the music of someone who's literally campaigning for his opponent.

Serenading a draft dodger with a song about not having that option.

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the USA, etc.

it's been 40 years, how can people still not get that song?

Let’s not forget that people are morons

cluster city baby

NEWS: @NYMag has confirmed that Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California has tested POSITIVE for COVID-19. Pastor Laurie was at the Prayer March on the Mall with Mike Pence and Franklin Graham and the ACB Rose Garden event later that day.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 5, 2020

STRIKE DOWN THE HERETICS GOD

From Karl's post:

the lectern remained covered by a garbage bag

I repeat:

the lectern remained covered by a garbage bag

Can someone please call the writers' room and tell them the metaphors are getting a little too heavy-handed this season?

the lectern remained covered by a garbage bag

Keep on rockin' in the free world

There's covid on the street
Red, white and blue
covid in their feet
covid sleeping in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
i feel like Satan, and i want to digest them
in my belly for eternity while they scream and beg for forgiveness and i will never fucking listen to them, ever, no matter right or wrong they are because it's motherfuckin apocalypse for the right that's right it's judgment day you fucking pricks

Keep on rockin' in the free world

And yet more in the TOO OBVIOUS zone:

She had a white Trump flag tied around her waist

I will go down with this ship

There will be one - white - flag around my waist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrHIpnE2mU

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Built FORD tough in the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9d5csMFAfE

Saw the Marine One and decoys heading toward Walter Reed.

— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) October 5, 2020

Lectern covered in a plastic bag
No Covid direction, still plenty of traffic
Some kind of fashion

what the fuck is happening

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/don-jr-thinks-trump-is-acting-crazy-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided

what a maverick

lol, don JR is the voice of reason in the family right now?

loooooooool

A source familiar with POTUS phone calls from the hospital today tells me he said “I need to get out of here.” He's being warned that if he rushes to leave the hospital and has a setback it would be bad for not just his health, but his re-election campaign.

— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) October 5, 2020

of course this is what it is

he's been demonstrably "out of control" since day 1 of his presidency, and now you have his own children saying he's not fit for office.

maybe it's time to admit that the 25th amendment, section 4, doesn't work and never will work

“I need to get out of here.”

I wonder if he sees dead people.

A spry older woman ran up and down the two-foot-wide median as “Eye of the Tiger” played on a portable speaker. She had a white Trump flag tied around her waist and a blue Trump flag aloft in her wriggling arms. Her purse swung into the path of BMWs and minivans whooshing by. “TRUMP FOREVER,” the woman on the median shrieked. “TRUMP FOREVER. TRUMP FOREVER.”

Pulling from a different King book for a change, read that and pictured the end of "The Jaunt".

Claw hands beat and twisted and danced on the air; abruptly they descended and the thing that had been his son began to claw at its face. "Longer than you think, Dad!" it cackled. "Longer than you think! Held my breath when they gave me the gas! Wanted to see! I saw! I saw! Longer than you think!"

Pink lectern in a plastic bag getting dissed by covid

This is some Chev Chelios shit

lol, I love how the comments seem to be divided between whether his lack of access to Adderall or his lack of access to hair and makeup is making him so stir crazy.

Or it could just be an artifact of never developing mentally/emotionally past the age of four.

the 25th amendment may not work, but this line of thinking seems more realistic

There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness. According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the 1990s. “To retire is to expire!” Fred Sr. would say. The friend said that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr. would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it could only dial out to his secretary. “Fred pretended to work,” the family friend said.

The White House did not immediately respond for comment.

basically, the joke we've all made a million times over the last 4 years - trick trump into thinking he won while he's off on some boat with no wi-fi or connections to the outside world, surrounded by truman show-esque actors and sycophants telling him he's the very best

honestly, i think it could work. he will destroy the world in a quest to believe that he is the winner and the best. skip all of that and just fake it, he can't tell the difference. he is really, really fucking dumb. pay all the people around him a lot of money, let it be like a tour of duty for new people in the military or whatever, but the key point is to permanently isolate him from the rest of the world

sounds like he could use one of these

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uNUAAOSwaAdco69M/s-l400.jpg

lol, I love how the comments seem to be divided between whether his lack of access to Adderall or his lack of access to hair and makeup is making him so stir crazy.

if Trump is actually abusing/addicted to Adderall I'm sure the doctors would give him a dose rather than cutting him loose

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MemorableSoupyDartfrog-mobile.mp4

https://i.imgflip.com/1iddly.jpg

Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a billion
Temperature one hundred and one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong

Like a cock, I was strong as I could be
Like a cock, nothin' ever got to me
Like a cock, I was something to see
Like a cock

My hands were steady
My eyes were yellow and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were short and tight
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a cock

WH spox Judd Deere: “Dr. Sean Conley, Physician to the President, is expected to provide an update on the President’s condition in the 3 p.m. hour at Walter Reed."

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 5, 2020

looking forward to the 3:27 briefing

https://i.imgur.com/t0QP8OK.jpg

who the hell is named judd deere

what the fuck

It is reported that the Media is upset because I got into a secure vehicle to say thank you to the many fans and supporters who were standing outside of the hospital for many hours, and even days, to pay their respect to their President. If I didn’t do it, Media would say RUDE!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020

daerest judd,

Donald Trump to the media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIh2xe4jnpk

My name is juuuuuuuudd

https://media.tenor.com/images/471b7391a660996aa115bb6543bcb64e/tenor.gif

Dear Trump, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad, I just think it's RUDE you don't answer the media
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your hospital
You didn't have to, but you coulda signed an document for Matthew
That's my little editor man, he's only fifty years old
We waited in the blistering cold for you
For four hours and you just said, "No."
That's pretty shitty man, you're like his fuckin' idol
He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein' lied to

Why won't you just die already, why

that is how i feel as well