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Dr. Jack

(675 posts)
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 08:57 PM Oct 2020

I think Trump is terrified and in denial

When Trump decided to leave Walter Reed, there were lots of theories as to what his motivation is. Some people say it's to pretend covid is no big deal to help his reelection, others that he is high on meds, and still others say he's too dumb to understand what's happening. Yes to all of those, to some degree, but I think in reality Trump knows exactly how this is likely going to end, he is terrified, and is now in severe denial. Even someone as dense and disinterested as Trump would eventually learn what the typical course of severe covid looks like. He's probably had hundreds of meetings and briefings about covid. Surely some info got through. So it's very possible Trump remembers that for some people the severe symptoms don't come on until the 2nd or 3rd week and he has already had pretty bad symptoms. Maybe he is terrified that in a few days, shit's likely to hit him very hard but maybe if he just takes these pills that make him feel better and he doesn't step foot back in the hospital that he will get through it....somehow.

I do think Trump is all sorts of fucked up on drugs right now but I don't think he really thinks he has beat anything and that he is absolutely terrified right now.

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Blue Owl

(50,373 posts)
2. I hope he dies as demons are haunting the fuck out of him
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 09:01 PM
Oct 2020

His life ending with a look of shrieking terror frozen on his fat, ugly goddamned face...

agingdem

(7,849 posts)
6. I think he's afraid of a lot more than dying...
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 09:27 PM
Oct 2020

his so-called business empire has been exposed,..it's a sham and has always been a sham..his multi-million dollar personally guaranteed loans are about to be called...he more than likely will be sued over and over again with possible convictions in his not so distant future...once he''s out of the White House he can no longer use the federal government as a slush fund to keep his golf courses and hotels afloat...he will be vilified and unwelcome...

and I want a fitting end to his heinous life...a long excruciating intubated catheterized drowning in his own fluids death...

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)
5. I'm also afraid if that doctor keeps prescribing whatever drugs Trump wants
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 09:07 PM
Oct 2020

Like Hitler, an unstable personality diving into drug addiction could be even more destructive that what he was like before.
Would the doctor say no?

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
7. Trump probably had it and was taking HCQ for a few days before Hick's test was announced
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 09:31 PM
Oct 2020

And since that already broke the stonewall, his worsening condition led him to go to Walter Reed.

It is probably already about two weeks since he was infected.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
8. I want that fucker healthy as a horse. I want him at his fighting weight when he is sentenced.
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 09:52 PM
Oct 2020

I want him at his very fullest physical and emotional capacity when he fucking cries cause hes going to die in prison. Broke.

Death by Covid is too easy for this fucker.
'The living are not DONE with him yet.'

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
10. I listened to the Lincoln Project post-debate discussion
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 12:36 AM
Oct 2020

Tara Setmayer said that a inside source had reportedly claimed that Trump was acting so completely off the rails last night that his aides were trying to get the family to intervene. Apparently he was on the phone with a donor and just lost it. As for 'the family?' Has anyone seen them recently?

Things sound pretty ugly inside the White House.

canetoad

(17,160 posts)
11. I'm K&R-ing, but I doubt he is in denial
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:53 AM
Oct 2020

From everything I've read and seen about Trump, he is the guy who only hears what he wants to hear and then only for what is in it for him.

I'm sure he is aware that it kills people; who isn't? But I doubt the concept of rallying and relapsing means anything to him.

Maybe you're right - I can't begin to imagine what's going on in his head.

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