'I had to do it': Trump suggests he got virus as act of political courage

[left-of-center2012]

What exactly did President Donald Trump mean when he said Monday: "I knew there's danger to it -- but I had to do it." In a video Trump tweeted soon after returning to the White House Monday evening, he spoke directly to the camera and seemed to argue his getting sick was a necessary risk to show he was a strong leader.

"As your leader, I had to do that," said Trump. "I knew there's danger to it -- but I had to do it. I stood out front. I led. Nobody that's a leader would not do what I did. And I know there's a risk, there's a danger -- but that's okay," he said.

Trump's language seemed to suggest his contracting COVID-19 was an act of political courage to help him lead the fight against the virus, not the result of his continued refusal to always wear a mask and social distance throughout the pandemic.

Trump previewed his new political strategy -- that contracting COVID-19 was the best way for him to learn about it -- in another video he tweeted from Walter Reed.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-virus-act-political-courage/story?id=73452023&cid=clicksource_4380645_7_three_posts_card_hed

[idziak4ever1234]

1. That is right out of the Idi Amin playbook.

Of course, its bullshit. He is a germophobe.

[samnsara]

2. his speech made NO sense. I took it as he had to get out of the hospital early to lead the country..

..but like everything else he spews its full of contradictions and head scratching word salad sentences sentences.

[tableturner]

12. I agree with your interpretation.

[AnnaLee]

3. The Regeneron cocktail along with the dexamethasone and remdesivir

I think he meant he was the one man test study of his idea of a cure. You know, he is endowed with knowing everything, even how to cure the COVID.

[OrlandoDem2]

4. Will you shut up, man?

[Doodley]

5. I would like a reporter to ask this: "You said that contracting COVID-19 was the best way to

learn about it, can you share with the American people what three things you have learned about reducing the spread of this virus? "

[Blue Owl]

6. Oh FFS

Eat shit and die, Donald. Quickly.

[Hstch05]

7. What a maroon

What a ta-ra-ra-goon de-ay.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Yeeeeehaw! Hell yeah bro! That punk ass Reagan should've led by catching some AIDS!!!! nt

[Solly Mack]

9. Sure. And the idiot who shot himself in the penis was simply showing the other idiots

in the loaded gun-at-penis photo group that there is nothing to worry about - to go ahead - pull the trigger. Come out of it a hero.

[jcgoldie]

10. I thought he just meant...

He had to return to the White House even though its medically stupid and all the doctors warned him against it. But I really have no idea he's batshit on a good day and the steroids seem to have sent him into orbit.

[subterranean]

11. I thought he was referring to his balcony wave.

If he was, in fact, referring to catching the virus, then it seems to me he's saying, "Uh, yeah...I meant to do that."

He's afraid that having the virus will make his followers think he's weak, so he's pretending he did it on purpose.

[cayugafalls]

13. He is playing to his base...he has nothing else.

That is the only people this message will have any play with.

I remember this OP that had a decent twitter rant in it about why his base is so easily manipulated by his stupidity.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213951803