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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwist deus ex machina ending:
Trump gets mesothelioma from all the asbestos released into the air from demoing the East Wing.
I'm just saying, it would be quite the twist, wouldn't it?
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Tommy Carcetti
Oct 2025
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marybourg
(13,655 posts)1. Takes too long.
rsdsharp
(12,065 posts)2. Asbestos typically has a latency period of 20-40 years.
Neither he, nor I, would live to see him go through the hell of meso, as richly deserved as it might be.
gay texan
(3,242 posts)3. What got Steve McQueen in the end n/t
rsdsharp
(12,065 posts)4. Merlin Olson, too.
marybourg
(13,655 posts)5. And my dad, who spent WWII spraying asbestos lining into huge
naval cannons.
rsdsharp
(12,065 posts)8. I'm so sorry for your loss. Mesothelioma is a God awful disease.
JoseBalow
(9,631 posts)6. Maybe lead poisoning from paint
after eating ketchup he scrapes off walls from the Oval Office dining room?
canetoad
(20,883 posts)7. Yes, I like that scenario
Except for it not being a quick killer.