Ashley Parker makes an extremely astute observation RE: why Trump's "minor" symptoms probably aren't

[Miles Archer]

During a segment on MSNBC this Friday, political analyst Ashley Parker expressed skepticism over the White House’s claims that President Trump’s coronavirus symptoms are “mild.”

“So far, we are taking the White House’s word that they’ve put out that the President has mild symptoms,” Parker said. “This is a White House that lies, this is a president that lies and says mistruthful information. So it’s important to take into account what they are saying, but we actually have no idea how mild or severe his symptoms are.”

“It’s worth noting that since he tested positive, other than that tweet, we haven’t heard from him, we haven’t seen him, he hasn’t even called into Fox News or a radio show, and that has raised some questions about how truthful they are even being about the President’s condition.”

[Happyhippychick]

1. To be fair, it is difficult to speak when hooked up to a ventilator

And some people are saying he is hooked up to one. Lots of people. Beautiful, strong people.

[NurseJackie]

21. Haaaaa!

Yes, please!

[ResistantAmerican17]

32. Powerfully ventilating .

[SunSeeker]

35. The best ventilating anyone has ever seen...

[ResistantAmerican17]

36. The doctors have never seen ventilating like that...

[JDC]

51. Yes. Strongly

[doc03]

2. It isn't minor if It isn't tweeting nt

[Thomas Hurt]

9. +1 Trump feeds his pathology, in part, by tweeting...if he ain't doing something is up.

[doc03]

11. It could have Junior or Eric tweet in his place nt

[Thomas Hurt]

14. He could but how would that feed his narcissism...

[Hekate]

29. Remember: if tweets are grammatical & coherent, they are not written by Trump

[TNNurse]

64. Well how about Jr and Eric???

Surely they would be as bad.

[Hekate]

66. Hey, they've got people for that

[Binkie The Clown]

3. 24 hours without a tweet would tell us a lot. 48 hours would really be revealing. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. I've read his record is 45 hours. . . . nt

[Illumination]

49. Yes. Because who's ever heard him silent for a day or 2? That would be a red flag. Or rather

I should say a GOOD SIGN FROM ABOVE!...

[CrispyQ]

4. The longer he goes without tweeting the more I think it's worse than they're stating. -nt

[TeamPooka]

47. absolutely. If he was fine he would be tweeting about how strong he is from his bedroom.

[Illumination]

52. That's the worst...Tweet withdrawal...That could kill him for sure...!

[LizBeth]

5. He is up to moderate.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

20. Per Kudlow: "...moderate symptoms..." that's up from mild.

[LizBeth]

24. Right.

[ResistantAmerican17]

33. From a virus that is "almost totally locked down", Kudlow is a moron.

[Illumination]

59. UH OH! His C-19 heath is escalating into unconsciousness? Like him & Melania coming down

the escalator! Had no idea that would be a sort of symbol of his "presidental" life! Let me go have a good cry now...

[tblue37]

6. "Mistruthful"? Really? Why not say LIES?

[Yavin4]

7. Herman Cain still tweets, and he's dead.

Trump must be in really bad shape.

[BlueMTexpat]

18. ...

[Hugin]

19. +1

Darn it... Stop!

I'm trying to take this crap seriously.

[qazplm135]

25. ok

the Rebel Alliance would be proud.

[SunSeeker]

37. ...

[Ninga]

40. Yavin4 for the win!

[OneGrassRoot]

48. OMG...

[bronxiteforever]

53. Damn that is funny

[XanaDUer2]

8. It's like that old story

Man let his friend care for his cat. Caretaker tries to gently break the bad news that the cat is dead incrementally, ie " the cat's on the roof". Will Trumps minions raise the bar to moderatley severe later?

[bamagal62]

23. The cat's on the roof and we can't get her down!

[DrToast]

10. My prediction: Hospitalization

He still has a good chance of survival, especially with the care he's getting, but I'm guessing he's in for a rough ride ahead.

[leftieNanner]

39. He's on the way to Walter Reed this afternoon nt

[DrToast]

54. Much quicker than I expected!

But also not surprising.

[leftieNanner]

58. He may be sicker than they are letting on, or

he may be panicking about getting sick, or it's just an abundance of caution.

We may find out which it is - or not.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. His campaign has amassive interest in showing he's healthy

Anything, a photo, a text, a tweet, a recorded message. A short video of him sitting in the Oval Office. Shocked they have given nothing, even something doctored.

I fully expect to hear he's being flown to Walter Reed tonight.

[MissB]

17. I'm kinda hoping for the middle of the night BBC notification

on my phone. Hospital or worse, don’t care. Something will happen.

[Nay]

22. Yep -- but there is nothing, except Larry Kudlow coming out to say the President's symptoms

are "moderate." That's worse than the "mild" symptoms he was supposedly having yesterday. I also predict hospitalization within the next 24 hours.

[NCjack]

65. Larry lies bigly

[qazplm135]

26. I'm surprised that someone

hasn't simply tweeted for him.

Either they are incompetent, or they have more important things to worry about.

[Cha]

13. Kr

[ace3csusm]

15. He needs to pull thru this he can get off that easy

we need to have the breaking news ex-president trump arrested...

[Takket]

16. just wait until he is rushed at 2AM to walter reed for another

"routine ordinary perfectly normal check up, and the fake news media should stop trying to speculate it is anything more than that!" I can already hear Lieleigh McLieFace's voice

[Strelnikov_]

27. I don't think Red Don authored last night's tweet

The tweet noted they "will get through this together".

Concern for another is not one of his traits.

[AZ8theist]

68. He was referring to him and his wife, NOBODY else...

[cbdo2007]

28. I bet he is admitted to the hospital by the end of the weekend.

His symptoms must have been getting worse for them to be administering the antibody treatment which MOST people don't need. He is seriously unhealthy and just pumping him full of drugs could be enough to get his system to freak out even more.

[cbdo2007]

30. Wow that was quick...10 minutes after I posted this...

I better go buy a lottery ticket!

[world wide wally]

31. If McConnell tests positive, I'll be buying a bunch of them.

[LPBBEAR]

45. barr was there too

Good odds on that lottery ticket.

[BComplex]

75. Barr is the one that I'd rather see in the hospital.

More than anyone else. Barr, then McConnell. Trump is chump change without those two.

[Nay]

67. I posted that he'd be heading to a hospital within 24 hrs upthread! Gotta go get a ticket too!

[bucolic_frolic]

34. You have the sight, cbdo2007

I mean this is Merlin level!

[leftieNanner]

42. From your lips............

He's going to Walter Reed this evening.

[Hulk]

38. Nothing that comes out of his mouth...

.... can be taken for more than a grain of salt. We are talking about the biggest liar this country has ever had to listen to. He is so corrupt and deceitful, and his administration is just as bad, so that nothing they say can be believed. And the same is true for the entire GOP political establishment.

[cwydro]

41. That seems obvious.

[Traildogbob]

44. Have you ever had hospital hair?

Wait until a month on a ventilator. With no spray paint. With the big gap in the ass of the gown, no girdle or spanx.
Herman Cain went in a month. Much healthier, but black. Trump has never given Cain a second thought and he died going to support trump, maskless.
I will give as many fucks as he has the 209,000 dead, the 7 million infected, many now bankrupt, and life long health issues. I will give as many fucks as he would me, if I died.
Working all day at the white man’s house, gonna work hard at the hospital presidential office?
The mother fucker has never worked for the people. And he is in good spirits..... since when. Only time he had been in good spirits is when Ivanka sits in his lap.
Shut the fuck up K-Lee MAGAninny. You are on course to top your daddies lies for 4 years. There is not a presidential office at Walter Reed. Watching Fox and tweeting on a ventilator is not working.

[AZ8theist]

69. Never gave Cain a second thought??

Shit he spent all of 15 minutes with his dying BROTHER before hitting the golf course.

The man-baby is simply a GIANT ASSHOLE.

[Traildogbob]

70. Oh shit

Forgot about that one. Lot of debtors gonna be pissed, as well as some heirs. Melania did all that diggin, and no gold. Gonna end up a toothless, used up old prospector. Hanging at the airport bar, earning her cash. MAGA (Melania Ain’t Gettin Anything), especially when Princess Ivanka is Executor of what’s left of the estate.

[bdamomma]

71. and his brother's

funeral service was on the American taxpayer.

[AZ8theist]

72. Didn't know that. Begs the question: WHY?

[griloco]

46. Please People, Pity Poor Putin's Puppy nt

[Escurumbele]

50. There is the other side of the coin. Is he really ill or just acting to avoid more debates

And to come back as "Superman conquers the virus" kind of thing?

I understand that it is hard for him not to tweet, but part of the choreography could have been to take his phone away, or at least give him one that only pretends to work, one of those Fisher-Price phones.

[AZ8theist]

73. Either possibility is a win for us.

[hotdamn00]

55. I'll stay up tonight

to hear those magical words..."He's resting comfortably".

[Ilsa]

60. magical words..."He's resting comfortably"...

in the morgue.

[ashredux]

56. He is very ill....this isn't helping him...he is toast

[SayItLoud]

57. Let's see if:

He walks out to the helicopter.

Melania also goes.

If anyone asks if his kids has been tested.

Karma

[krakfiend]

61. it's worse then we were told

i believe the information was finally revealed only because the white house knew they could no longer hide the news from coming out. i wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't trump or his wife that made the tweet last night.

[AllyCat]

62. He'll pull a KJU.

We aren’t lucky enough for him to stop talking for long.

[Timer]

63. A few minutes ago NBC had a new video Trump taped at the WH thanking people for their support. NT

[TruckFump]

74. A video? No tweet?

He’s toast.