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sheshe2

(83,668 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:25 PM May 2020

Donald Trump Promises Caution For His, Pence's Health So Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Serve As President

Donald Trump has reportedly implemented some additional precautions in the White House, including asking staffers to start wearing masks. Now he says that he and Vice President Mike Pence will take extra care not to catch the virus, after seeing a tweet explaining that Nancy Pelosi would be third in line to serve as President in the event that COVID-19 (or anything else) forced a succession.

A Just The News piece tweeted Monday afternoon garnered a response from President Trump. The article lays out the lines of presidential succession under current law. In short, if Trump and Pence were both rendered unable to serve, the next person in line to fill the role until a new election would be Nancy Pelosi. Trump is no fan of Pelosi, who he has called crazy and nervous, saying “there’s something wrong with her upstairs”, accusing her of staging impeachment as a hoax, and generally implying she’s anti-American, incompetent, and engaging in dirty politics.

A tweet of the article explaining how presidential succession works must have caught Trump’s eye Tuesday morning, because he retweeted it, along with a response promising to protect his health to avoid an eventuality in which Pelosi held presidential power.

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The amount of activity at the White House makes transmission a high risk, if precautions aren’t being taken. Though everyone who comes into contact with Trump is tested for SARS-CoV-2, the rapid tests that give results in minutes instead of days have a high rate of false negatives. With implementation of masks, Trump appears to be taking more care regarding the health of White House occupants. With Nancy Pelosi’s hypothetical occupation of the White House dangled before him, though, he’s now offered a public promise to be very careful indeed.

Read More: https://hillreporter.com/donald-trump-promises-caution-his-pences-health-so-nancy-pelosi-doesnt-serve-as-president-67584

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Methinks the Donald is scared 'spitless'. He's scared!

Nancy!






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Donald Trump Promises Caution For His, Pence's Health So Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Serve As President (Original Post) sheshe2 May 2020 OP
Ah, Newest Reality May 2020 #1
Who would have thought that older grandmothers from Baltimore Vogon_Glory May 2020 #2
MAGA, MAGA, TEKEL, UPHARSIN nt smb May 2020 #10
If he speaks it, you know it's already an obsessing thought in his rotting brain. Budi May 2020 #3
Almost 3 &1/2 years in office and the moron didn't know? Solly Mack May 2020 #4
I'd rather he have a different nightmare Vogon_Glory May 2020 #6
That works Solly Mack May 2020 #7
He just realized he can't just delegate it to Jarad captain queeg May 2020 #23
I have no doubt about that. He thought he could appoint Solly Mack May 2020 #24
Yeah, but he's even full of shit with this boast -- he won't wear a mask RockRaven May 2020 #5
He was at another factory making N95's today. sheshe2 May 2020 #9
I know the businesses/executives are scared of his petty vengefullness, but I cannot RockRaven May 2020 #13
Let me understand this PJMcK May 2020 #8
"How fucked up is that?" A HERETIC I AM May 2020 #14
I thought that immediately tavernier May 2020 #17
He obviously thought Junior or Ivanka would take over. NYC Liberal May 2020 #22
LOL smb May 2020 #11
No shite! sheshe2 May 2020 #12
Also implying that there's something wrong with her upstairs. Major projection there. SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #25
5 4 3 2 1 mahina May 2020 #15
The author doesn't know much more about it than Trumpolini. hedda_foil May 2020 #16
he and Vice President Mike Pence will take extra care not to catch the virus, after seeing a tweet babylonsister May 2020 #18
Ya..... sheshe2 May 2020 #19
Hah - shake in your socks, SHITLER!1 UTUSN May 2020 #20
Trump just learned the line of succession. What a dope. TeamPooka May 2020 #21

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Ah,
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:31 PM
May 2020

Dear COVID-19,

As you ransack our planet and our nation doing your big replication injection dance, I would just like to ask you one, little favor, if it would not be too much trouble...

Vogon_Glory

(9,110 posts)
2. Who would have thought that older grandmothers from Baltimore
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:40 PM
May 2020

could be so dangerous?


When the invisible hand starts writing “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” on the walls of Mar a Lago, then Individual One really needs to start worrying.


 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. If he speaks it, you know it's already an obsessing thought in his rotting brain.
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:48 PM
May 2020

He is going mad with his own obsessive thoughts.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
4. Almost 3 &1/2 years in office and the moron didn't know?
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020

LMAO

Scared, stupid, and orange.

I hope he has nightmares of Pelosi hiding under his bed. Pelosi snickers. Trump cringes. Every so often Pelosi pulls the covers causing Trump to scream.

Vogon_Glory

(9,110 posts)
6. I'd rather he have a different nightmare
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:59 PM
May 2020

As a silent, invisible ghost knowing that both he and his Veep were dead, then watching in horror as President Nancy Pelosi strides into the West Wing to take over.

To quote the Mistress of the Dark:

“Unpleasant Dreams!”

RockRaven

(14,913 posts)
5. Yeah, but he's even full of shit with this boast -- he won't wear a mask
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:53 PM
May 2020

if there's the tiniest chance he'll be photographed, which there always is. So he's NOT "taking extra care." He's underperforming out of laziness and wildly misplaced vanity. Business as usual in Dotardville.

sheshe2

(83,668 posts)
9. He was at another factory making N95's today.
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:10 PM
May 2020

We was mask-less and probably contaminated the whole facility.

RockRaven

(14,913 posts)
13. I know the businesses/executives are scared of his petty vengefullness, but I cannot
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:16 PM
May 2020

Understand how letting a dope who has CERTAINLY been recently exposed blunder around your factory isn't fatal to your business. If you'll do that, your quality standards don't mean shit. Nobody should buy your products. They are worse than nothing -- because they still cost something but are useless.

PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
8. Let me understand this
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:05 PM
May 2020

Trump, who is the president of the United States, didn't know the line of succession?! Seriously?

The fool has never once read the Constitution and its Amendments. That's remarkable.

Trump needed a tweet to understand American civics. A tweet!

How fucked up is that?

A HERETIC I AM

(24,362 posts)
14. "How fucked up is that?"
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:16 PM
May 2020

Of course, you KNEW he hadn’t read the Constitution and therefore had no idea The Speaker of the House was 2 heart attacks or plane crashes away from being president.

It is both amazing and very telling that Trumpy just stumbled across this information.

He is so utterly incompetent and in over his head it isn’t even funny anymore, as if it ever was funny.

It will take decades to recover from this nutcase, of that I am convinced.

smb

(3,471 posts)
11. LOL
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:12 PM
May 2020
implying she’s anti-American, incompetent, and engaging in dirty politics


The projection is strong with this one....

hedda_foil

(16,371 posts)
16. The author doesn't know much more about it than Trumpolini.
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:28 PM
May 2020

They talk about the order of succession under current law. It's in the Constitution.

babylonsister

(171,036 posts)
18. he and Vice President Mike Pence will take extra care not to catch the virus, after seeing a tweet
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:42 PM
May 2020

That just says so much. He had no clue who was 3rd in line until he saw a tweet??

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