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

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

What exactly did President Donald Trump mean when he said Monday, after spending three nights in the hospital dealing with a severe case of COVID-19: "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 -- still without the mask he had just dramatically taken off -- 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, flanked by American flags atop the South Portico with the Washington Monument in the distance behind him.

"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.

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

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WHAT-THE-FUCK ?!?!?!?!

[mzmolly]

1. I suppose he has to spread it too?

[Wicked Blue]

2. Mr. Bonespurs is so vewy, vewy bwave

[central scrutinizer]

11. Yes, he had a chance to get an education in Vietnam

But he decided to research STDs instead.

[AZ8theist]

70. COMPLETE, UTTER BULLSHIT

Doturd is a germaphobe. He would never get the virus to prove his manhood.

He got it because he's a FUCKING IMBECILE.

[Newest Reality]

3. I have been a...

I have been a rather discriminating collector of famous last words.

I'm getting the sense that he is spouting some real collector's items.

[jorgevlorgan]

4. Is it just me or has he been acting more and more insane than any other point of his presidency?

[groundloop]

6. No doubt...... why in hell would he kill stimulus talks and tank the markets?

He's drugged up and his nastiness has lost all self control. He has always done business like that (being the mobster that he is - make the deal I want or I'm gonna' hurt you), and that's really coming out with his 'roid rage.

[Glorfindel]

5. Yes, just as Nero had to watch Rome burn in order to finish his ode

on the destruction of Troy.

[Laelth]

7. I thought he was talking about admitting himself into Walter Reed.

That’s what he “had to do,” and the “risks” and “dangers” he mentioned are political ones—might hurt his re-election chances ... might make him look “weak.” That’s what I could gather, in any event.

That’s the only way that I could parse his babble and make any sense out of it.



-Laelth

[Escurumbele]

16. It is a good analysis on your part

But being trump who said it? your analysis may be too intelligent. I have to think he was bragging.

[llmart]

41. You're trying to put rational thought to an irrational person.

Don't waste your energies. Even a top notch psychiatrist would be befuddled by this specimen.

[catbyte]

54. I thought he meant that he "had to do it" meaning catch COVID to prove to us peons that it's

"no big deal" and that Biden is just a big scare monger/scaredy-cat for wearing "that big mask."

[NCjack]

8. And, we have to do what we have to do: Fire your sorry ass.

[napi21]

9. I thought he meant he had to stand on the balcony to show he was their leader. Hell, who knows

what he meant. He never made sense before the virus. Still doesn't.

[ResistantAmerican17]

10. You're such a good boy donnie. Two scoops for you. But your dad still didn't love you.

[japple]

25. Nobody loves you Donnie. It's a sad thing that he never got what he needed when he was in

those formative years, but our country is suffering because of it. What is happening to all of those little children he has locked up in internment camps or detention centers who don't have anyone to nurture them?

[ResistantAmerican17]

29. And every time he posts one of those "your favorite president ME" tweets it's so clear

his insecurity is eating alive. Not soon enough given all the horror he has brought to children, families, every day Americans. Just so vile.

[central scrutinizer]

12. There's a danger

In stepping out in front a speeding train. I’m not sure how to act. I need my leader to personally assess the risk. Waiting...

[Eugene]

13. I meant to do that. One of the oldest excuses in the book.

Trump cannot address the truth even to save himself.

[COLGATE4]

14. Jesus Christ on a crutch!!!!! Does this imbecile's need

for self-aggrandizement know no bounds?

A. I know, I know...

[musclecar6]

15. He never stops

Coming up with some ridiculous manipulative line of bullshit. What a fucking jackass

[ClusterFreak]

17. Of all the batshit crazy lunatic claims this man has made...

...this has got to be the batshit craziest.

Like what the absolute fuck Don?

Anyone, ANYONE, who would say something like this, should not be allowed within fifty miles of the nuclear codes.

When is this insanity going to end?

Election day can't get here soon enough.

[groundloop]

28. January 20th can't get here fast enough.....

After the election he still has over 2 months to burn the country down.

[Flaleftist]

18. So if he is saying it was intentional, is he also saying

he intentionally caused the White House to become a covid hot zone. It has also spread to the Pentagon.

[thecrow]

27. ...and give it to Melaria? And Kayleigh? And the joint chiefs?

And Chris Christie? And.... where’s Baron? Anybody looking after him?
The orange 🍊 and Mrs. 🍊 should be charged with child endangerment.

[Ponietz]

55. That's how it reads--I had to contract and spew it on everyone--I had no choice

But Wile. E. Bug Job is still crafty enough to never explicitly define ‘it’.

[TomCADem]

19. Rolling Stone: Are People Really Having 'Coronavirus Parties'? Yes, Apparently.

I though it was an urban legend, but I guess it turns out that is true. Anyone ready for COVID-palooza at the next Trump rally?

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/coronavirus-parties-real-fake-washington-995431/

With baseball season effectively over, Americans have a new favorite national pastime: shaming people on the internet for not properly socially distancing. Whether it’s a viral (albeit arguably misleading) photo of a crowded park on a sunny day or people wagging their fingers at joggers on the street, the narrative is always the same: self-absorbed young people are unwilling to sacrifice the pleasures of socialization in order to serve the greater good.

With this in mind, recent reports of “coronavirus parties,” or events attended by people purposefully trying to be infected with COVID-19, are almost tailor-made for internet virality. On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Health tweeted, “We’ve been getting reports of ‘coronavirus parties’ where uninfected people are mingling with #COVID19-positive individuals intentionally to try to contract the virus. Bad idea! This is dangerous and puts people at risk for hospitalization or even death.” The tweet linked to an official statement from the health department secretary John Wiesman: “This kind of unnecessary behavior may create a preventable uptick in cases which further slows our state’s ability to gradually re-open.” ​

On the surface, this sounds fairly straightforward: parties where people are intentionally trying to get a potentially deadly illness? Scary! They even used a Trump-esque exclamation point to drive the point home, so you know they mean business. And to be fair, the concept of “coronavirus parties” had previously gotten ink in none other than the New York Times, in an op-ed by epidemiologist Greta Bauer referring to “rumblings” about people hosting events “where noninfected people mingle with an infected person in an effort to catch the virus.” The piece enumerates the many reasons why such parties are a bad idea, including the fact that researchers know very little about coronavirus immunity, without citing direct evidence of the existence of these parties to begin with.

There’s good reason for this, says urban folklorist Benjamin Radford: “coronavirus parties” are probably BS. “They’re a variation of older disease urban legends such as the ‘bug chaser’ stories about people trying to get AIDS,” he tells Rolling Stone, referring to a brief spate in the early-aughts when so-called “bug-chasing” parties were subject to extensive media coverage (including a controversial story by this magazine). Such stories fed into a general sense of “moral panic” over the disease, resulting in it sticking around in the public imagination regardless of the lack of supporting evidence.

[Drum]

20. Inevitable failure. America still won't tolerate this:

[Captain Canada]

36. uguuuhh

That is amusing and distrurbing at the same time.

[DeeNice]

73. credit to the artist

Mark Bryan
[link:https://www.artofmarkbryan.com/|

[Drum]

74. Thank so much for adding the name and link, DeeNice!

I couldn’t find the credit. Much appreciated!

[dalton99a]

21. He should try cancer next

with his tremendous ultraviolet or very powerful X-ray source

[They_Live]

22. Hopped up on goofballs.

fuck this shit.

[Hekate]

23. Said every dictator ever. Aside from that, he's gone completely nuts. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Childish bravado

[musette_sf]

26. JFC

He thinks he's f'n Christ at Gethsemane.

"If this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, Your will be done!" (Matthew 26:42)

[Evolve Dammit]

30. NO. You WERE and ARE, a complete, low intellect, total asshole. End of discussion.

[bringthePaine]

31. pop goes the twisted, drug-addled, plague-ridden coward - it is rubber-room time folks...

[TeamPooka]

32. Herman Cain disagrees.

[JDC]

33. This is going to spark his cult to seek out Covid and "share it"

Incredibly dangerous insanity. He is insane.

[TygrBright]

34. He. Is. Bugf**k. n/t

[The Mouth]

35. My thinking all along

is that he as a martyrdom wish.

He can't really step outside the SS bubble, so this is a way to go.
He gets out of not being re-elected, and he 'goes down with the ship.

Every single step of his behavior indicates he wanted to catch it.

And Götterdämmerung style, taking as many people with himself as possible.
I bet he's fully aware that the generals would not let him actually launch a nuclear strike, and I doubt the has the balls to.

[Dem2theMax]

37. Drugged out of his mind.

I think it's time for me to get drunk.
And I don't normally drink.

[patphil]

38. Next thing he'll want to be crucified 3 days before the election.

But then, Jesus he ain't.

Although, I think Trump was actually written about in the bible. I believe Jesus and he talked.

And as he tried to tempt Jesus, Jesus said, "Get thee behind me Satan".

[CountAllVotes]

39. It took a lot of courage

What a fine mess.

[kimbutgar]

40. That is the biggest bunch of bull shit I have ever heard

his arrogance caused him to get the COVID-19. he was so Delusional he thought he was invincible.

[yaesu]

42. he's a legend in his own mind, a dangerous freak show brought to you by the GOP, sponsored by the

wall street elite.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

43. Messiah complex and delusional, a clear and present danger to

himself and others - I advise holding patient for observation and possibly involuntary commitment if warranted.

[llmart]

44. He's certifiable.

That is all.

[rurallib]

45. did he also have to infect (what?) hundreds of others

especially the poor staff and secret service?

Good leadership doesn't kill their own troops

[icymist]

46. How many Presidents call themselves "Your leader"?

Just what the fuck has happened to the Republican party? Bunch of spineless traitors, every one of them!

[Denvermosaic]

51. He clearly meant to say 'Fuhrer'

[aggiesal]

47. This guy is completely delusional. ...

And I don't believe meds are the issue here.

[George II]

48. What a phony MFer he is. He is NEVER wrong, there's always some rationalization from him.....

Political "courage" from a coward? I don't think so.

[bucolic_frolic]

49. He's hoping to get his opponents infected

[ancianita]

50. Covidman says what the stupid say when they do stupid things: "I meant to do that."

[Zorro]

52. He should catch Ebola to show everyone how strong and virile a man he is

[usaf-vet]

53. Bullshit! Besides I like Presidents that don't get Covid. He is a loser he got caught by CoVid.

[world wide wally]

56. Time to put on the hip waders

[LudwigPastorius]

57. "Nobody that's a leader would not do what I did."

Eat me, you sack of shit.

[Aussie105]

58. He had to do it.

But what, exactly?

Actually catch the virus and run the risk of being dead?

I doubt it somehow.

More like, pretend he has it. That buys him some sympathy votes, and his miraculous recovery 'proves' what a tough guy he is, as well as proving the point he has made so often, that the virus is a nothingburger.

I'd like to see his COVID-19 test results, all of them, from his first to his most recent. But what is the chance of seeing those?
Transparency at that level builds trust, but also removes any chance of manipulation of the truth for political gain.

Knowing Trump, I'm guessing it really is another Trump hoax.

[Rebl2]

59. What a

Lunatic 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[ucrdem]

60. TBH, it's crossed my mind, more than once

that he found some way to get himself infected with some strain of something that would give him an edge over Biden on this issue. Did he really do it or is he just pretending he did? Who knows, I've given up trying to find the grain of truth in anything he says, but I will say that if he did, with the intention of infecting Biden and his wife at the debate, which he clearly tried to do, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[JohnnyRingo]

61. And I'd follow that commander straight into hell.

hahaha I just wanted to use that cheesy movie line.

It's hard to believe, but I'm sure he has followers who want to experience the honor with him. Crazy world we live in these days.

[LudwigPastorius]

62. Yep.

?t=30

[Swede]

63. Oh fer fuck sake.

Only his blithering idiot trumpsters can believe this bullshit.

[world wide wally]

64. This one's for Q

[SergeStorms]

65. He's bat-shit, howling at the moon crazy.

You're one of the biggest cowards in the world, Donnie. You might be able to fool a few of your slack jawed, mouth breathing, booger eating moron supporters, but other than that you're barking at the moon. What a putz!

[Turbineguy]

66. Why not?

His dolt supporters will believe anything.

[Javaman]

67. And I give you the psychopathic narcissist

“Only he can save us”

Holy fuck.

Slap a fucking straitjacket on this fucking criminal loon

[IronLionZion]

68. All GOP senators, judges, and other politicians should join him in his act of courage

They must come together real close and share it among themselves.

[LovingA2andMI]

69. Can We Just....

25th Amendment Him Now. Pence ain't winning shit. This needs to be over ASAP. (Yes, we are voting) but this MF'er is Crazy!

[GReedDiamond]

71. Yes, this...Calling Moscow Mitch! and the rest of the corrupt repugs...

...it's PAST time for the 25th.

[area51]

72. Pee Wee Trump: "I totally meant to get Coronavirus"

[lagomorph777]

75. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

What a jackass.

[BlueWavePsych]

76. Try AIDS for political courage!