TRUMP GOT COVID

lmao

of course this trump covid infection would have the most annoying outcome. he will be fine, as will everyone in his orbit, and he will now downplay the severity of COVID - quite effectively (to the people who like him)

― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Monday, October 5, 2020 2:48 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's hard to expect anything else given ol Donny has wriggled his way out of a million jams by now despite all the damage done along the way

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— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 5, 2020

I keep looking at this thread title and thinking "TRUMP GOT COVID / COVID KISSES" Echo & the Bunnymen-style

Smithsonian just had a good piece on Nero, apparently he was kind of a decent guy who history has judged harshly.
Trump is truly a douchecanoe.

Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio = the fake news media.

look as insane as everything's been up to this point I can honestly say, I cannot fucking believe what is happening right now

good luck usa

The best part is there's no going back now. If he doesn't leave the hospital tonight, he's a cuck, a weakling, a coward. If he does, he may not live till Election Day, and even if he does he's likely to relapse within a week and be unable to campaign. Whether he lives or dies, America wins (because if you think Pence is gonna beat Joe Biden, you're even dumber than Pence).

"Don't be afraid of ________, don't let it dominate your wife."

If he exhibits no further symptoms (which is unlikely yet hardly inconceivable), it’s a definite win tho and his gamble will have paid off. Not enough to take it all in Nov, but it does afford him a fighting chance. So this is a last stand of sorts.

xp "trump not dying"

Come on baby, don't fear the COVID
Baby take my hand, don't fear the COVID
We'll be able to fly, don't fear the COVID
Baby I'm your man

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pom c'mon we talked about this, KIP ;)

can that long delay this morning - the press corps being called to walter reed for an announcement that was then delayed for several hours - be explained by anything other than a circle of friends, advisors, neighborhood tuffs, and doctors all surrounding trump and trying to convince him to not do what he is now doing?

look as insane as everything's been up to this point I can honestly say, I cannot fucking believe what is happening right now

― frogbs, Monday, October 5, 2020 2:05 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Between checking himself out of the hospital and that fucking tweet, it's hands down the most irresponsible behavior he's exhibited in four years. And given the last four years...

My chest hurts rn.

leaked footage of donald trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLYYTLsFeG0

lol sleeve, how about this then: he’s going back because he knows his time is up and he’d rather give up the ghost in the Oval Office?

a circle of friends, advisors, neighborhood tuffs, and doctors all surrounding trump and trying to convince him to not do what he is now doing?

just to add to this run-on sentence, in the middle of this spectacle he looks down at his phone and tweets "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!!!", then glances back up to the circle of people that are always yelling at him for some reason

xpost You're saying he'd rather haunt the WH rather than Walter Reed?

he hears that Kayleigh McEnany has covid now. she is in the real school now, he thinks.

If he exhibits no further symptoms (which is unlikely yet hardly inconceivable), it’s a definite win tho and his gamble will have paid off. Not enough to take it all in Nov, but it does afford him a fighting chance. So this is a last stand of sorts.

― pomenitul, Monday, October 5, 2020 2:11 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

there's a 100% chance that he's still infectious, and he's going to get more people sick. there's no keeping that out of the headlines.

He's the Typhoid Mary of Pennsylvania Avenue.

If he exhibits no further symptoms (which is unlikely yet hardly inconceivable), it’s a definite win tho and his gamble will have paid off. Not enough to take it all in Nov, but it does afford him a fighting chance. So this is a last stand of sorts.

I don't really believe this. dude was helicoptered to the hospital on live TV and there's been days of coverage slamming them for being insanely irresponsible & knowingly exposing others to a deadly disease, not to mention the fact that the White House is a fucking leper colony right now and we still don't know the extent of the damage

secondly, if he "exhibits no further symptoms" that would mean either the doctors have been lying about the drugs he's on or that for some reason this 74 year old obese man has a different prognosis than every other hospitalized Covid patient on the planet

i'm way behind already but lol @ Camaraderie's "Stan" riff, i was just about to try working up my own but you nailed it

Just a story, no reason:

I remember the first time I was prescribed steroids for a bad illness I had. I was 19. For a week, I felt superheroic, like I could lift a car. With permanent adrenalin, all of my problems were gone.

A week later I had the first panic attack of my life.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 5, 2020

you guys know the drill. Trump is going crazy because the news is making him look weak and stupid and he knows the only way out is to return to the WH unscathed. he also happens to be hopped up on steroids and god knows what else right now. his doctors probably aren't signing off on this but he's the President and he can do what he wants, if he tweets it out they have no choice. in a day or two he'll crash and it's gonna fuckin own.

Conley on potential worsening or reversal says they remain "cautiously optimistic" and "on guard." If they "can get through to Monday" with him improving, they'll take "sigh of relief."

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) October 5, 2020

"If he lives a week...we win!"

I think that is what we call a win-lose.

Getting a duck-rabbit illusion vibe from the thread title now, as in ‘don’t worry, he’s got this’. (I’m sorry sleeve.)

lol no worries man

See, now weak Joe Biden can still get the Cove, but Super Trump already beat it. Who would your rather have running the country? Weak & sickly, or superhuman?

According to sources, Don Jr. has told friends that he tried lobbying Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner to convince the president that he needs to stop acting unstable. “Don Jr. has said he wants to stage an intervention, but Jared and Ivanka keep telling Trump how great he’s doing,”

It's like King Lear except with Toby Keith playing at the funeral.

Conley ‘not at liberty’ to discuss lung scans. Interesting, most interesting.

White House doctors releasing his vital signs down to the number, answering questions about how he's doing better.

Then asked about his chest scans, suddenly they invoke HIPAA patient privacy protections and won't answer

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) October 5, 2020

he has the biggest lungs, the most beautiful lungs you've seen

there was a moment early where they were just cycling through doctors every 30 seconds at the podium that felt like a circular firing squad

Nickn beat me to "don't fear the covid." Damnit.

Herman Cain and John Prine
Are together in eternity
We can be like they are

he can have round the clock medical care at the white house. this isn't the same as you or i leaving the hospital.

since we're all wondering

A humbling Herman Cain/coronavirus timeline:

6/24: Attends Trump rally, maskless
7/2: Tests positive for Covid-19
7/10: Says he’s improving
7/15: Says his doctors seem happy
7/27: Says he’s really getting better
7/30: Dies

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) October 5, 2020

Neither the White House nor his transportation to it are going to be remotely covid secure.

if those lung scans looked good he’d have them framed in a 4’ x 6’ frame and hung next to the inauguration crowds and red/blue electoral map

— kilgore trout, acting president (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 5, 2020

I think he wants to get back to the WH to wipe his hands and cough on anything Joe might be liable to touch in January.

If I was a potential assassination target, I would refrain from publishing my travel schedule on Twitter. Maybe that's just me.

Biden's campaign needs to bring back the negative ads right fucking now

I feel like they pulled the negative ads because they knew how much fodder they would receive for new negative ads

Quite.

I still have no understanding of what people think that's going to gain the Biden campaign. Right now Biden is coasting and the polls are getting worse for Trump by the day. Why expend resources on going on the offensive?

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