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a kennedy

(29,647 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:29 PM Oct 2020

and I swear to gawd, if this is just a ploy......his getting the virus, this Walter Reed Hospital

visit, and what's to follow..............IS HE DOING THIS FOR "RATINGS"?????? as in the greatest showman on earth doing this to WIN the damn election??? or am I so far off that no one else has thought this. and it's really sad I'm even feeling this way.

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and I swear to gawd, if this is just a ploy......his getting the virus, this Walter Reed Hospital (Original Post) a kennedy Oct 2020 OP
Goofy conspiracy theories make us all look goofy. Maru Kitteh Oct 2020 #1
+1. N/t obnoxiousdrunk Oct 2020 #4
Well, they aren't going to allow him to do virtual rallies from Walter Reed, so there is that... hlthe2b Oct 2020 #2
It's not. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #3
and I know.......it's just, I'M SO DAMN SICK AND TIRED OF HIM. I WANT HIM GONE. a kennedy Oct 2020 #8
You'll very likely get your wish. TwilightZone Oct 2020 #10
My husband says he is faking. Srkdqltr Oct 2020 #5
Falling victim to a disease he minimized for months... regnaD kciN Oct 2020 #6
There was a point where "he is faking it" although unlikely was somewhat reasonable. Statistical Oct 2020 #7
It's the time of Trump, in the time of Covid.. stillcool Oct 2020 #9
He looked bdamomma Oct 2020 #11
He was wearing a mask SoCalNative Oct 2020 #13
yes thank you bdamomma Oct 2020 #15
I think Occam's Razor works here. ego_nation Oct 2020 #12
Could be. It would be the easiest way out of this debacle for him. But in the 42bambi Oct 2020 #14

TwilightZone

(25,464 posts)
3. It's not.
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:31 PM
Oct 2020

Unless you think the president of Notre Dame and three WH reporters are in on the scam.

As far as getting it on purpose, there's nothing he likes more than rallies, so I doubt he'd sideline himself from that in what's probably his last month of having them.

a kennedy

(29,647 posts)
8. and I know.......it's just, I'M SO DAMN SICK AND TIRED OF HIM. I WANT HIM GONE.
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:34 PM
Oct 2020
I'm so sorry. I just want this nightmare GONE. JUST GONE.

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
7. There was a point where "he is faking it" although unlikely was somewhat reasonable.
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:33 PM
Oct 2020

We are well past that point.

bdamomma

(63,836 posts)
11. He looked
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:34 PM
Oct 2020

fine to me, could he be changing the narrative. I didn't see a mask on his face. What the hell?

SoCalNative

(4,613 posts)
13. He was wearing a mask
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:43 PM
Oct 2020

when he walked from the WH to Marine One and when he walked from Marine One into Walter Reed.

42bambi

(1,753 posts)
14. Could be. It would be the easiest way out of this debacle for him. But in the
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:49 PM
Oct 2020

end it would be forever known that he was a horrific president. History will not serve him well.

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