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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,470 posts)
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 08:56 PM Oct 2020

Trump, Infected With COVID-19, Takes Mask Off To Enter White House Full Of Staffers

President Donald Trump immediately removed his face mask when he returned to the White House on Monday evening, despite testing positive for the coronavirus less than a week ago and amid an ongoing outbreak among staffers in the West Wing.

The president left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center just minutes earlier after a three-day stay in the hospital. He had been admitted on Friday just hours after he revealed that both he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the virus, a cluster that has since spread through his White House staff and congressional halls of power.


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“I learned so much about coronavirus, and one thing that’s for certain: Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re going to beat it,” Trump declared in a video shortly after his arrival (more than 210,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.). “I went, I didn’t feel so good, and two days ago, I could’ve left two days ago, I felt great, like better than I have in a long time. Don’t let it dominate, don’t let it take over your lives, don’t let that happen.”

Reporters noted that several photographers filming Trump’s return to the White House appeared to be near the president as he took off his mask.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-mask-white-house-covid-19-001413422.html
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BlueDawn

(970 posts)
1. He really does look as if he is struggling for breath.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 09:06 PM
Oct 2020

I watched it several times. He really isn’t out of the woods. He may be trying to portray himself as “strong” and as if he has “beaten” the virus, but he is in pretty bad shape, or so it appears to me.





JDC

(11,189 posts)
6. So right. That's the first time I've seen it. He is giving everything he's got
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 09:38 PM
Oct 2020

And that is absolutely after pure O2 and heavy steroids. He is very sick.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
2. The man is such a dense ogre. Always ignorant but this big con he is...
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 09:08 PM
Oct 2020

currently playing is close to premeditated manslaughter. (Is that even a possible term?) certainly wreckless endangerment and absolutely willful.

Aussie105

(8,180 posts)
3. Trump has the virus! Oh, no he doesn't!
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 09:13 PM
Oct 2020

Two or three simple facts to consider:

1. No one catches the virus, develops symptoms, and is cured in a matter of days.
The time line on that is just wrong!
Compare to Boris J's timeline, it went on for 2 weeks.
No one says 'I feel great!' after recovery, there are long term effects on one's health.

2. Doctor's news briefings:

a. A general lack of consistent info re testing, etc.

- when was his last test? Is he tested daily? What do the tests show? (no info!)

- a general feeling I get from the body language of the doctors, one of embarrassment, rather than 'Victory! We saved the President's life!' They should be proud and jumping for joy, not look sheepish.

In short, it's FAKE NEWS! (*)

But his minions will lap it up, and absorb the message the virus is just a trivial thing, no big deal.
(Can I hear the murmur of dissenting voices from 211,000 dead Americans?)


(*) But it is clever though, the debate debacle and Trump's tax returns are off the medias' attention.
Devious, clever but extremely evil in it's intent.

love_katz

(3,286 posts)
5. Extremely evil in its intent.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 09:24 PM
Oct 2020

That phrase accurately describes Everything about Twitler and his enablers. Plus a gazillion!

Totally Tunsie

(12,024 posts)
7. Maybe he'll get a hefty second dose from an infected WH staffer.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 10:42 PM
Oct 2020

He's not protecting his staff, but he's not protecting himself either.

lindysalsagal

(22,998 posts)
8. If everything else didn't prove what a childish sociopath he is, this removes all doubt.
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 10:51 PM
Oct 2020

Those people have dedicated their lives to our white house operations and now have to quit to save their lives.

EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES DIES

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