'I had to do it': Trump suggests he got virus as act of political courage
Source: ABC News
What exactly did President Donald Trump mean when he said Monday, after spending three nights in the hospital dealing with a severe case of COVID-19: "I knew there's danger to it -- but I had to do it."
In a video Trump tweeted soon after returning to the White House Monday evening, he spoke directly to the camera -- still without the mask he had just dramatically taken off -- and seemed to argue his getting sick was a necessary risk to show he was a strong leader.
"As your leader, I had to do that," said Trump, flanked by American flags atop the South Portico with the Washington Monument in the distance behind him.
"I knew there's danger to it -- but I had to do it. I stood out front. I led. Nobody that's a leader would not do what I did. And I know there's a risk, there's a danger -- but that's okay," he said.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-virus-act-political-courage/story?id=73452023
WHAT-THE-FUCK ?!?!?!?!
mzmolly
(50,985 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,831 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)But he decided to research STDs instead.
AZ8theist
(5,456 posts)Doturd is a germaphobe. He would never get the virus to prove his manhood.
He got it because he's a FUCKING IMBECILE.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I have been a rather discriminating collector of famous last words.
I'm getting the sense that he is spouting some real collector's items.
jorgevlorgan
(8,289 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)He's drugged up and his nastiness has lost all self control. He has always done business like that (being the mobster that he is - make the deal I want or I'm gonna' hurt you), and that's really coming out with his 'roid rage.
Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)on the destruction of Troy.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Thats what he had to do, and the risks and dangers he mentioned are political onesmight hurt his re-election chances ... might make him look weak. Thats what I could gather, in any event.
Thats the only way that I could parse his babble and make any sense out of it.
-Laelth
Escurumbele
(3,386 posts)But being trump who said it? your analysis may be too intelligent. I have to think he was bragging.
llmart
(15,536 posts)Don't waste your energies. Even a top notch psychiatrist would be befuddled by this specimen.
catbyte
(34,374 posts)"no big deal" and that Biden is just a big scare monger/scaredy-cat for wearing "that big mask."
NCjack
(10,279 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)what he meant. He never made sense before the virus. Still doesn't.
ResistantAmerican17
(3,801 posts)japple
(9,821 posts)those formative years, but our country is suffering because of it. What is happening to all of those little children he has locked up in internment camps or detention centers who don't have anyone to nurture them?
ResistantAmerican17
(3,801 posts)his insecurity is eating alive. Not soon enough given all the horror he has brought to children, families, every day Americans. Just so vile.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)In stepping out in front a speeding train. Im not sure how to act. I need my leader to personally assess the risk. Waiting...
Eugene
(61,872 posts)Trump cannot address the truth even to save himself.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)for self-aggrandizement know no bounds?
A. I know, I know...
musclecar6
(1,685 posts)Coming up with some ridiculous manipulative line of bullshit. What a fucking jackass
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)...this has got to be the batshit craziest.
Like what the absolute fuck Don?
Anyone, ANYONE, who would say something like this, should not be allowed within fifty miles of the nuclear codes.
When is this insanity going to end?
Election day can't get here soon enough.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)After the election he still has over 2 months to burn the country down.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)he intentionally caused the White House to become a covid hot zone. It has also spread to the Pentagon.
thecrow
(5,519 posts)And Chris Christie? And.... wheres Baron? Anybody looking after him?
The orange 🍊 and Mrs. 🍊 should be charged with child endangerment.
Ponietz
(2,961 posts)But Wile. E. Bug Job is still crafty enough to never explicitly define it.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)I though it was an urban legend, but I guess it turns out that is true. Anyone ready for COVID-palooza at the next Trump rally?
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/coronavirus-parties-real-fake-washington-995431/
With baseball season effectively over, Americans have a new favorite national pastime: shaming people on the internet for not properly socially distancing. Whether its a viral (albeit arguably misleading) photo of a crowded park on a sunny day or people wagging their fingers at joggers on the street, the narrative is always the same: self-absorbed young people are unwilling to sacrifice the pleasures of socialization in order to serve the greater good.
With this in mind, recent reports of coronavirus parties, or events attended by people purposefully trying to be infected with COVID-19, are almost tailor-made for internet virality. On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Health tweeted, Weve been getting reports of coronavirus parties where uninfected people are mingling with #COVID19-positive individuals intentionally to try to contract the virus. Bad idea! This is dangerous and puts people at risk for hospitalization or even death. The tweet linked to an official statement from the health department secretary John Wiesman: This kind of unnecessary behavior may create a preventable uptick in cases which further slows our states ability to gradually re-open.
On the surface, this sounds fairly straightforward: parties where people are intentionally trying to get a potentially deadly illness? Scary! They even used a Trump-esque exclamation point to drive the point home, so you know they mean business. And to be fair, the concept of coronavirus parties had previously gotten ink in none other than the New York Times, in an op-ed by epidemiologist Greta Bauer referring to rumblings about people hosting events where noninfected people mingle with an infected person in an effort to catch the virus. The piece enumerates the many reasons why such parties are a bad idea, including the fact that researchers know very little about coronavirus immunity, without citing direct evidence of the existence of these parties to begin with.
Theres good reason for this, says urban folklorist Benjamin Radford: coronavirus parties are probably BS. Theyre a variation of older disease urban legends such as the bug chaser stories about people trying to get AIDS, he tells Rolling Stone, referring to a brief spate in the early-aughts when so-called bug-chasing parties were subject to extensive media coverage (including a controversial story by this magazine). Such stories fed into a general sense of moral panic over the disease, resulting in it sticking around in the public imagination regardless of the lack of supporting evidence.
Drum
(9,154 posts)That is amusing and distrurbing at the same time.
DeeNice
(575 posts)Mark Bryan
[link:https://www.artofmarkbryan.com/|
Drum
(9,154 posts)I couldnt find the credit. Much appreciated!
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)with his tremendous ultraviolet or very powerful X-ray source
They_Live
(3,231 posts)fuck this shit.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)musette_sf
(10,200 posts)He thinks he's f'n Christ at Gethsemane.
"If this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, Your will be done!" (Matthew 26:42)
Evolve Dammit
(16,723 posts)bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)JDC
(10,125 posts)Incredibly dangerous insanity. He is insane.
TygrBright
(20,758 posts)The Mouth
(3,148 posts)is that he as a martyrdom wish.
He can't really step outside the SS bubble, so this is a way to go.
He gets out of not being re-elected, and he 'goes down with the ship.
Every single step of his behavior indicates he wanted to catch it.
And Götterdämmerung style, taking as many people with himself as possible.
I bet he's fully aware that the generals would not let him actually launch a nuclear strike, and I doubt the has the balls to.
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)I think it's time for me to get drunk.
And I don't normally drink.
patphil
(6,169 posts)But then, Jesus he ain't.
Although, I think Trump was actually written about in the bible. I believe Jesus and he talked.
And as he tried to tempt Jesus, Jesus said, "Get thee behind me Satan".
CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)What a fine mess.
kimbutgar
(21,130 posts)his arrogance caused him to get the COVID-19. he was so Delusional he thought he was invincible.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)wall street elite.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)himself and others - I advise holding patient for observation and possibly involuntary commitment if warranted.
llmart
(15,536 posts)That is all.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)especially the poor staff and secret service?
Good leadership doesn't kill their own troops
icymist
(15,888 posts)Just what the fuck has happened to the Republican party? Bunch of spineless traitors, every one of them!
Denvermosaic
(120 posts)aggiesal
(8,911 posts)And I don't believe meds are the issue here.
George II
(67,782 posts)Political "courage" from a coward? I don't think so.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)world wide wally
(21,740 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)Eat me, you sack of shit.
Aussie105
(5,382 posts)But what, exactly?
Actually catch the virus and run the risk of being dead?
I doubt it somehow.
More like, pretend he has it. That buys him some sympathy votes, and his miraculous recovery 'proves' what a tough guy he is, as well as proving the point he has made so often, that the virus is a nothingburger.
I'd like to see his COVID-19 test results, all of them, from his first to his most recent. But what is the chance of seeing those?
Transparency at that level builds trust, but also removes any chance of manipulation of the truth for political gain.
Knowing Trump, I'm guessing it really is another Trump hoax.
Rebl2
(13,492 posts)Lunatic 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)that he found some way to get himself infected with some strain of something that would give him an edge over Biden on this issue. Did he really do it or is he just pretending he did? Who knows, I've given up trying to find the grain of truth in anything he says, but I will say that if he did, with the intention of infecting Biden and his wife at the debate, which he clearly tried to do, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)hahaha I just wanted to use that cheesy movie line.
It's hard to believe, but I'm sure he has followers who want to experience the honor with him. Crazy world we live in these days.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)Swede
(33,233 posts)Only his blithering idiot trumpsters can believe this bullshit.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)Turbineguy
(37,319 posts)His dolt supporters will believe anything.
Javaman
(62,517 posts)Only he can save us
Holy fuck.
Slap a fucking straitjacket on this fucking criminal loon
IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)They must come together real close and share it among themselves.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)25th Amendment Him Now. Pence ain't winning shit. This needs to be over ASAP. (Yes, we are voting) but this MF'er is Crazy!
GReedDiamond
(5,311 posts)...it's PAST time for the 25th.
area51
(11,906 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What a jackass.