...and why did he go on and on about the sad meaning of being intubated and on ventilator????

[Grasswire2]

What good does that do for ANYONE to hear him say that the ventilator is the death sentence??

On and on and on in his creepiest voice.

"Don't ask that question! Don't ask that question!" he said.

WHY did he go on so?

[Skittles]

1. WHY DO YOU LISTEN TO HIM

STOP!

[Grasswire2]

3. Because it's important to bear witness to his words.

It's important to share them, too.

If we didn't bear witness, he would not be held ultimately responsible by the public.

[MontanaMama]

15. Well said.

It’s painful to listen to him...but you’re right.

[lunasun]

24. 100% agree we should be aware of his words to the nation as POTUS not ignore it . He

needs to be held responsible .

[malaise]

39. Precisely

and I don't want to miss the final meltdown

[Grasswire2]

41. hahahaha malaise

There is that, too!

That creepy voice yesterday was something that Hollywood producers of horror films likely took notice!

[wnylib]

36. Agree. I tune him out. Literally.

Change the station or switch to a movie.

He will never be made accountable for anything. So why bother exposing myself to the frustration of listening to a pile of lies?

He gets off on the outrage that people express. Why give him the pleasure of it?

[DBoon]

2. An excuse for not providing enough ventilators?

Why both giving New York more ventilators hen those people are going to die anyway?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. That's what I think he was getting at.

[Grasswire2]

5. He gets off in a trance, story-telling.

It's bizarre. Dementia and delirium are connected.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. He spends a lot of time fantasizing about death and rape.

He has for a long time. Creepy ass fuck.

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. Yeah really. He's one sick morbid demented shit.

[Hoyt]

6. He's right that odds of survival decrease when you need a ventilator. But, if available,

ventilators save lives.

[sarcasmo]

7. That lunatic raises my blood pressure, can't listen.

[Doodley]

8. Because late night chat show hosts made fun of him for saying "generators," instead

of ventilators, and he wanted to show off that he had learnt a new word "intubated," to really teach anyone who mocked him a lesson.

[2naSalit]

9. Most likely. ...nt

[shanti]

22. Like when he spelled out C-O-V-I-D virus

I can't listen to him anymore. If anything of significance is said, we will hear about it.

[BComplex]

33. That's the only reason he ever learns anything!

He's really a stupid waste of air.

[Demonaut]

10. he was enjoying the suffering that people will go through, he's a psychopath

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Best discription to date.

Narcissistic psychopaths seem to get their rocks off describing some one else's pain and suffering. His verbal commentary bolsters his ego and self image as a mighty hero.

[dweller]

11. it's his bedside manner, patting your hand, you are going to die

but hey, i'm going to Disneyland voice ..



✌🏼

[sheshe2]

12. It is an excuse.

What good does that do for ANYONE to hear him say that the ventilator is the death sentence??

He did not have enough ventilators soon enough, so he says they are a death sentence when in fact they are saving lives. He is covering his ass with lies. He f**ked up when he spent more than 70 days golfing and partying. He never bothered to address the issue of the virus then called it a HOAX!

Hundreds of thousands are going to die for his incompetence and his need to turn a buck or two on our very lives.

[delisen]

13. To escape blame for lack of ventilators

He is suggesting that if people need ventilators they are already doomed so ventilators will just prolong suffering.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Crazy man--he implies ventilators aren't needed or helpful, yet busts 3M's balls for exporting some.

[rickford66]

16. So if you need a ventilator, you don't need one !!

Ventilator shortage solved.

[Grasswire2]

17. Here's what Newsweek wrote about his comments..

Returning to the topic of ventilators, the president said that one reason he keeps touting the unproven drug combination is because of reports that a significant number of COVID-19 patients who are placed on ventilators do not regain enough lung function to have the ventilators withdrawn.

"One of the reasons that I keep talking about hydroxychloroquine is that the question that nobody ever asks, and the question that I most hate the answer to, is what happens if you do have a ventilator," Trump said.

"But when you have a ventilator... and it's working beautifully, I don't like the answer because it's not a very high percentage," he continued.

"So I want to keep them out of ventilators, I want to keep them -- if this drug works, it will be not a game changer because that's not a nice enough term. It will be wonderful, it'll be so beautiful, it'll be a gift from heaven if it works, because when people go into those ventilators, you know the answers, and I'm glad you don't write about it."

[link:https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-wants-keep-people-off-ventilators-favor-unproven-drug-combination-1496161?fbclid=IwAR1qxN4_OHjAkU353HalkeVIjKcFoajMP94O2bcMLjHOICz5WsKPZQiGf5E|

[niyad]

19. I have read that. . .word salad three times, and it still makes no sense. As an editor, my red pen

Would be working overtime.

So someone please tel me, how much do I have to drink before it makes sense.

[Grasswire2]

25. think of it as nonsense verse....

we wouldn't, as editors, think of touching that.

[Maru Kitteh]

28. Well, let's just say,

a hand truck will be required.

[3catwoman3]

29. You would die of acute alcohol poisoning before...

...you could drink enough for anything he says to make sense.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. Well, It's Possible...

...that one would pass out before the death level.
He still wouldn't make sense, though!

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. WTF. Hey Deplorables, you understand any of that gibberish?

Admit it, your guy as stupid af.

[marybourg]

18. I suspect he's starting to read the NYT.

He may have read this: ( and everyone should)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[Silent3]

30. That's not the kind of thing Trump would bother to read...

...and if he did, it wouldn't alter his behavior in the slightest -- except perhaps making him more callous about "bothering" with respirators. If you imagine him being emotional moved, you've got the wrong guy.

[MerryBlooms]

23. Because those are the guidelines his administration has set up for testing and hospitalization

a person needs to be near death to receive a test and help.

[Grasswire2]

26. well, that's true

If we had wider testing, and more freely available, perhaps some people would never go into respiratory distress.

[greyl]

27. It's an attempt to devalue the supply of ventilators.

Not as economic strategy, but as cover-his-ass strategy for the WILLFUL ignorance about the likelihood of a pandemic, and failing to use DPA with informed authority.

Dotard was trying to make the implication that a ventilator wouldn't do any good anyway, in attempt to reduce his culpability for American deaths because of lack of supply where it's needed.

In "war time."

In the United States of America

[Caliman73]

31. Poverty of Content.

Associated with diminishing cognitive capacity and sometimes psychotic processes. The person with poverty of content will often speak a great deal but have vague or incomplete ideas and communicates very little.

That is Trump to a T.

[greyl]

32. Interesting, wasn't aware of that, thanks.

https://dictionary.apa.org/poverty-of-content-of-speech

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/alogia

[Caliman73]

34. No problem

Trump is a walking case study for multiple psychological and cognitive conditions. The GOP really committed crimes against the US by allowing him to run and helping him steal the election of 2016.

[Grasswire2]

42. good insight.

I have read about the differences and similarities of dementia and delerium. That's interesting, too.

[brewens]

35. I kept hearing him complain about how bad the test was. That was really irresponsible.

It was almost like he didn't want people tested? Go figure.