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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,304 posts)
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 09:24 PM Oct 2020

'Imagine having a literal COVID parade': Critics react after Trump leaves Walter Reed to see support

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON – Doctors, critics, and other Twitter users reacted after President Donald Trump ventured outside Walter Reed Hospital Sunday night to wave at supporters, calling the move "reckless" and saying he endangered the Secret Service members riding in the vehicle with him.

Dr. James P. Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed, tweeted that everybody in the vehicle with Trump should be quarantined for 14 days.

"They might get sick. They may die," he tweeted. "For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity."

"That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is astounding. My thoughts are with the Secret Service forced to play," Dr. Phillips, who is also the Chief of Disaster Medicine at George Washington University Emergency Medicine, continued.



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'Imagine having a literal COVID parade': Critics react after Trump leaves Walter Reed to see support (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
Endangering his Secret Service detail just to take a joy ride. groundloop Oct 2020 #1
Diseasy Rider just had to have his ego fluffed, at the expense The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2020 #2
They Should Have Some Floats Ready for the Next COVID Parade TomCADem Oct 2020 #12
Yep.. Sleazy COVID Rider.. TY! Cha Oct 2020 #15
A life ending stunt for potential political gain. warmfeet Oct 2020 #3
Why did he need LEO lining the street? Delmette2.0 Oct 2020 #4
SHOWBOATING for.... louzke9 Oct 2020 #16
... Drum Oct 2020 #5
+1 dalton99a Oct 2020 #9
"The irresponsibility is astounding." dchill Oct 2020 #6
He's already dangerously mentally ill and now he's on meds that cause mania and psychosis. NoRoadUntravelled Oct 2020 #7
Remember when Republicans were only METAPHORICALLY a pox on America? Beartracks Oct 2020 #8
If he would have stepped out of the car, those people would have hugged him without caring. C Moon Oct 2020 #10
Trump also said that he visited some of the soldiers and first responders at Walter Reed ... progree Oct 2020 #11
Damn! Bayard Oct 2020 #13
Lock him up! Lock him up! regnaD kciN Oct 2020 #14

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,900 posts)
2. Diseasy Rider just had to have his ego fluffed, at the expense
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 09:30 PM
Oct 2020

of the health of his Secret Service detail and however many thousands of dollars of our tax dollars.

Delmette2.0

(4,174 posts)
4. Why did he need LEO lining the street?
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 09:51 PM
Oct 2020

He is in the safest vehicle in the world, cops six feet apart on the side of the street can't do anything to protect him. It's just more wasteful showboating.

louzke9

(296 posts)
16. SHOWBOATING for....
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 07:17 AM
Oct 2020

World stock market openings. Thus the attempts to cover up the severity of his illness. Trump is desperate to show the markets he is recovering and could be released Monday. A big decline in the stock market could sink Trump's campaign and re-election efforts beyond a chance of recovery. We keep saying it and every day Trump keeps proving how INSANE he really is.

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
7. He's already dangerously mentally ill and now he's on meds that cause mania and psychosis.
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 11:18 PM
Oct 2020

There is still no transfer of power.
Why are doctors at Walter Reed allowing this clearly psychotic person to wander out of quarantine to be the Marshall at the Covid parade for his brainwashed cult members?
He should be sedated like any other patient would be under these circumstances and forced to stop endangering the lives of others with his dangerous psychotic behavior.
They are his physicians and it is within their purview to declare him unfit for office.
What's next? Ordering the nuclear football to be delivered to his room so he can destroy the world faster? Who will say no to this monster?

C Moon

(12,223 posts)
10. If he would have stepped out of the car, those people would have hugged him without caring.
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 11:38 PM
Oct 2020

They are all idiots, worshiping an idiot.

progree

(10,924 posts)
11. Trump also said that he visited some of the soldiers and first responders at Walter Reed ...
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 11:55 PM
Oct 2020

From the link in the OP-

Trump also said in his video remarks that he visited some of the soldiers and first responders at Walter Reed, raising questions about whether he should be in contact with others when federal health guidance directs those infected with COVID-19 to quarantine and isolate themselves from other people.

Bayard

(22,181 posts)
13. Damn!
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 12:51 AM
Oct 2020

This man just can't get it though his thick skull what quarantine means. He just could give a rat's ass how many other people he infects.

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
14. Lock him up! Lock him up!
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 02:00 AM
Oct 2020

...on charges of attempted murder.

To be upgraded to murder one should any of those people perish.

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