Raw Story: 'Booo!' Trump fans 'disheartened and upset' after he gives 'slap in the face to MAGA'

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - 'Booo!' Trump fans 'disheartened and upset' after he gives 'slap in the face to MAGA'

David McAfee
November 23, 2024 3:34PM ET

Donald Trump made an announcement about his upcoming administration, and his biggest fans are not happy about it.

Trump said on Friday that he had chosen Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a physician and Fox News medical contributor, as his surgeon general. She also "serves as a medical director at CityMD, a network of urgent care centers in New York and New Jersey," according to Politico's reporting.

“Dr. Nesheiwat is a fierce advocate and strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health,” Trump said on Friday in a statement on his Truth Social platform. “She is committed to ensuring that Americans have access to affordable, quality healthcare, and believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives.”

The pick did not go over well with Trump's base.

@BlueArmy24, who frequently posts in favor of Trump on Truth Social, responded on the site with a letter from the "base."

"Dear President Trump, many of us…MANY of us are very disheartened and upset about this pick -this doctor has been a major advocate for pushing Covid vaccines upon people which are being proven cause much harm," @BlueArmy24 wrote. "She also was a big advocate of masking and other terrible Covid policies please don’t let this happen! Sincerely -your base."

/snip

Let 'em get COVID, the stupid bastards.

[Lunabell]

1. This choice is interesting.

I'm so fucking glad he didn't pick that crazy man from Florida, ladapo.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

2. Trump is losing power, little by little. He is too inept and mentally incapable to keep up the dictatorship.

And we can help this along by building/up propping up any opposition to him. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[Justice matters.]

8. The felonious rapist doesn't need his base any longer.

Now that he's got his stay-out-of-jail card and his dictatorship for life, he's showing them the finger, since he no longer needs them.

[GreenWave]

28. He justs has to keeo them from hammering away at those he slightly likes.

[Dave Bowman]

3. So in other words she's too qualified to their taste.

[FakeNoose]

16. Unlike Bob (RFK Jr), she has a medical degree

So yeah, completely over-qualified. These initial picks don't mean much though.
Chump will fire many of them in the first 6 months.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. My plan is to go "undercover" on X and root on any opposition to Trump.

I have never really gone on X or even twitter before, but I see it as a way to help bring down Trump/Republicans little by little. Trump is losing a little bit of his power day by day and he hasn’t even gotten into office.

[DFW]

22. If you have the time

You can build up a vocal persona (or two or three, though they’ll probably be watching for that very thing), a fictional firebrand Trumpanzee who is bitterly disappointed in every move he makes. Sort of like Colbert’s fictional right-wing host of his “Report.”

[TommyT139]

5. There's a trumpy logic, three ways

He's pissing off the base, sure, but setting up a financial windfall for privatization. The base, of course, will get the short end of the stick along with the rest of us.

A key phrase: "empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives.”

What this really means is an excuse to reduce supports for socioeconomic factors that impact health and result in disparities. It also gives a rationale to take away subsidies for health insurance access, and places the blame for chronic health conditions back onto individuals.

Finally, it reinforces a hobby horse of the fundamentalist theocrats, who have been offended for years at having to contribute to the bodily health of groups who differ from them as far as spiritual lifestyles. The were attempts, in the wrangling over Obamacare, to set up "Christian" ( or whatever) "insurance" groups. No smokers, drug addicts, gays, ___ need apply. Those were found to be scams that people paid into but didn't get support back from, and have been challenged in court when new versions have appeared. Stay tuned for them showing up again, with the weight of a corrupt federal govt behind them.

[underpants]

26. 👆Great post. I've heard many ads for Medi-Share on talk radio. RW cell coverage too.

Medi-Share (get it?) makes really outrageous claims about membership numbers and next to nothing coverage. The ads have “real life” examples, low premiums, and reasonable OOP (out of pocket) Max. I noticed the deductible is either not mentioned or murky.

Cell phone deals abound. I really doubt Hannity has Patriot Mobile at his house in The Hamptons.

[dlk]

6. Yet, Trump wants RFK, Jr., at HHS, a devout antivaxxer

He will be the worst!

[Justice matters.]

9. Remember what he enjoys the most? Sit back and watch...

the chaos he created between two opposite nominees.

He truly is a sick f**k.

[PCIntern]

7. "Proven". 🤪

These dumb motherfuckers nearly failed geometry in high school because they couldn’t do proofs but they can “prove” medical theorems. Yeah.

Cockroaches have more depth. At least they have survival as a first priority.

[Abolishinist]

18. Cockroaches have been around for 300 million years,

and humans need them for survival. They eat decaying matter, trapping nitrogen in their poop, which is then released into the soil when they go number 2. Without that nitrogen-rich poop feeding our environment, we’d be in serious trouble.

Think of no plants, crops, food…So, what can we take away from this? We humans really really need cockroach poop to survive.

Do we need MAGAs? Not really, the case could be made that we are better off without them.

[Demobrat]

10. What these MAGAt morons don't realize

is that Trump doesn’t need them anymore. He can never run for reelection again, so he doesn’t need their votes. He as much as told them so at his rallies.

So he doesn’t have to pretend to care what they say/think/want anymore. They don’t matter.

Sure, there’s the grift to consider, but anybody stupid enough to still fall for that isn’t paying attention and isn’t going anywhere.

He got what he wanted from them. They might as well sit down and shut up now.

[Justice matters.]

15. Yep. They're even too stupid to realize that obvious truth.

All he needs from them now is their cash for his stupid useless crap.

[peregrinus]

11. Are the MAGAts tired of watching him play 4d chess?

[Beartracks]

12. "which are being proven cause much harm"

What harm? What's the supposed "argument" here -- that the supposed microchips supposedly leak or something?

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[groundloop]

13. Sadly there's no vaccine for stupid.

[IronLionZion]

14. It turned me into a newt

I got better

[Beartracks]

25. +1000 for the Monty Python reference!

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[Meowmee]

17. Well, I'm happy that she approves of vaccines and preventative medicine, etc., and masking

But Citi MD has gone to hell. I’ve gone there a few times in recent years, they were already starting to get bad before the pandemic and now they’re just awful. I had to go for two situations were there was no other option in the past three or four months… last time was not terrible, but the first time was bloody awful. The doctor was a total idiot and hostile, however, that can happen anywhere as I well know.

In addition the x-ray technician was nasty and refused to let me take off my insulin pump and put it in her area where would not be exposed to x-ray. Two weeks later, my pump had a software malfunction. Fortunately they shipped a brand new one, and I had my old out of warranty to keep me going. Not had time yet to complain to their office manager. I was feeling very ill at the time with severe bronchitis otherwise, I would’ve insisted on putting it in another room. It’s very hard having to deal with a bunch of ignoramuses in the medical profession, but I should be used to it by now.

[Cirsium]

21. Blame the patients

The Hippocratic Oath has been replaced.

Climate change? Blame the consumers.

Business failure? Blame the workers.

Lost elections? Blame the voters.

Media complicity? Blame the viewers.

[IronLionZion]

27. The MAGA health plan is to help patients die more quickly

[colorado_ufo]

19. Short term MAGA memory loss: Trump was vaccinated for Covid, to prevent a reoccurence!

[keep_left]

24. At a pandemic-era rally, Trump urged his fans to get vaccinated. They booed him...

...right off the stage. After that, he never mentioned vaccines again. And that's what happens when you turn a public health emergency into another front in the culture war!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219374824#post8

...He started it with his refusal to wear a mask, and soon his moronic followers were making up conspiracy theories about the vaccines (RFID chips, etc.) and refusing to take them--even being fired from their health care jobs for their refusal. Extremist radtrad Catholics disobeyed a direct order from their Pope to get vaccinated (it was a requirement for everyone at the Vatican!) and helped create one of the most ridiculous vaccine conspiracy theories ever ( "baby parts!" ).

Trump eventually lost all control over his MAGA chuds, so that when he bragged about the (minimal) role his administration played in the development of Covid vaccines (his idiotic "Warp Speed" initiative), he was booed off the stage! ...

[Joinfortmill]

20. These people suck. They just plain suck

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

23. Trump Base: "please choose an anti science fraudster instead"