Trump says Gold Star families could have given him Covid-19

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he might have contracted Covid-19 from Gold Star family members who were too close to him when telling stories of their loved ones who died in the line of duty.

In an interview on Fox Business, Trump told host Maria Bartiromo that he "figured there would be a chance" he would become infected with the coronavirus, citing his meetings with the families of America's war dead.

"Sometimes I'd be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didn't want to cancel that," Trump said. "But they all came in and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story."

The president proceeded to recount some of those interactions, saying the family members would approach him to "tell me a story about, 'My son, sir, was in Iraq'. Or, 'He was in Afghanistan.' And, 'Sir, he did this, and he did that, and then he charged in order to save his friends.' And, 'Yes, sir, he was killed, but he saved his friends. He's so brave, sir.'"


Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/08/trump-gold-star-families-coronavirus-427875

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Always someone to blame...

[matt819]

1. Just when you think he can't go lower

First, bullshit.

Second, whenever “sir” is in the story, it’s made up on the spot.

Third, what gold star family woukd even want to meet with him.

And blaming them? Makes me sick.

[2naSalit]

6. He tried to blame it on live veterans first...

So now it's the families of dead soldiers. Pathetic.

[FBaggins]

2. Stupid response... and not just for the obvious reason

It's clear that many people at the SCOTUS nomination party have tested positive. It's pretty clear that this was the event where the virus spread.

If you didn't catch it there... then you might be the source that everyone else caught it from.

[Docreed2003]

3. Every one of his "sir" stories is absolute bs

And to blame this on Gold Star families is absolutely atrocious and predictable. No, Donnie, you did this to yourself. You held these events, you chose not to wear a mask because you thought you were invincible, and now you continue to act like an ass even with this disease.

[bottomofthehill]

7. As soon as he drops the Sir, you know he is full of shit.

[forgotmylogin]

22. When he does that it sounds like he's started trying to rap HAMILTON. n/t

[RockCreek]

4. I can't tell from the transcript

In the article, but when I read this I am hearing Trump's voice having a mocking, slightly derogatory edge. Did anyone hear the interview? What was his tone? Was he mocking these families?
And given his history of mocking the military, people who died, people with disabilities, etc I am not surprised I read it this way. I would never put that tone to it in my head if anyone other than Trump was speaking.

[PubliusEnigma]

5. Disease-ridden Suckers, right Donald??? Do go on.

[soothsayer]

8. "Sir" ha. He's such a mutton head.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. "And then they're like, 'He was a hero, sir'...

... and yadda, yadda, yadda... they never shut up!"

That's the tone I'm getting from this!

[Laelth]

10. Utterly tone-deaf.

Even if it were true, it’s politically stupid to blame Gold Star Families for his infection.

-Laelth

[sanatanadharma]

11. So Trump is the White House epi-center

He contracted the virus and spread it widely in the administration and high military and campaign staff.

[GusBob]

16. thts my take too. He is admotting he then spread it to all them WH folks

kinda fitting since he is responsible for the entire country getting screwed

[fierywoman]

12. Isn't this, as usual, spanky projecting because he knew he was positive at the time he met the

families?

[displacedtexan]

13. Sounds like Trump was infected before the debate

It also sounds like he knew it.

[Cha]

14. How do the Gold Star Families feel

about that? Always a price to pay being around the COVID Stupor Spreader.

[Paladin]

15. Beyond pathetic. (nt)

[Initech]

17. What a sad, pathetic, piece of garbage this guy is.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. BUT HE RESPECTS THE TROOPS!!!

[keithbvadu2]

19. And his own: "But they knew what they were signing up for".

And his own: "But they knew what they were signing up for".

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. Trump is probably wrong about it, anyway.

Gold Star Family Day is the last Sunday of September, which would've been the day after the Barrett celebration where the Notre Dame President was apparently infected too.

I assume that's when Trump would have met those families, anyway.

Edit: Here's a reference to that day.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/25/heres-president-trumps-proclamation-honoring-gold-star-mothers-and-families.html

Congress in 1936 designated the fourth Sunday in September as "Gold Star Mother's Day" in recognition of the American Gold Star Mothers Inc. organization. But in recent years, presidential proclamations have expanded the day to "families" as well.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. No, not the staffers he insists work closely without masks, or the Repubs who do it for show

to signal their blind faith in Dear Leader.

No, after blaming the military and police for infecting Hope Hicks, now the Bone Spur Chicken is blaming the families of people who dies for their country. Wow, the class just oozes out of him ...

[McCamy Taylor]

23. What a rat bastard

[sandensea]

24. He got it humping Hope Hicks - and he knows it

A "real patriot" - unlike those "mean" Gold Star families.

[CTyankee]

32. That's what I told my husband...glad someone else's mind goes where my mind goes...

[sandensea]

34. Why, thanks.

When you have a Henry VIII-style animal - and young women with vaulting ambition - the inevitable happens.

As Cheeto himself said: "People talk about Clinton with the women - what about me with the women!"

[CTyankee]

35. we have a friend who tells us "stuff" and we know he just makes it all up...

but in his case he's just delusional.

[sandensea]

36. What did he say?

I'm intrigued.

[CTyankee]

37. Well, his grandest story is that he was a deadhead and followed Jerry Garcia all around this

country and Europe. Or he'll tell our mutual friend who is disabled and alone that he'll come by and pick him up and they'll have lunch. He doesn't show and doesn't call. That's just cruel.

His excuse is that he played lots of heavy contact sports in college and now his body is shot and he is in constant pain and he doesn't take his meds because he thinks he's impervious to injury. Or he shows up to a tailgate party with his fly unzipped and sticks his fingers in the dips to taste them.

There are some people who just need to be avoided and Trump is an extreme example of this kind of mental illness.

I don't think this ends well with our "friend" or with Trump....

[sandensea]

38. Reminds me of a friend who claimed he "shot hoops with Shaq and golfed with Arnold Palmer"

Entertaining as hell - though you never really knew where you stood with the guy.

All the Best to your friend. His issues notwithstanding, I'm sure he'd make a much better president than the current occupant.

[FakeNoose]

39. He caught it first and gave it to her

... probably while she was pressing his pants.

[sandensea]

40. "Pressing his pants"

[Judi Lynn]

25. All his stories concerning his fantasy meetings with members of the public have them groveling,

sniveling, cringing in the presence of his magnificence, calling him "sir" so often they shame themselves.

Why do people crumble before him every time? Looks as if we are all too unworthy to have him as our master.

[ZenDem]

26. Passive-Aggressive Bullshit

"They made me sick, but it's okay because their kids and parents died for our country, so I got sick for them. I'm like Jesus."

Freaking Jackass SOB

[DallasNE]

27. Easy To Verify

You know who all attended. Have any of them had covid in the past 3 weeks? I suspect that answer is "no". So why jump to conclusions?

[barbtries]

28. those families know who to blame

when they get it, which by now some probably do.

[Mr. Sparkle]

29. It's funny how he mentioned the Gold Star families he was with and not the big money donors

whom he met at a fundraiser around the same time.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

30. Why were the Gold Star families invited to the WH in the middle of the pandemic.

The WH is proud of ignoring CDC guidelines as far as masks and social distancing go.

Trump blaming the Gold Star families for his getting infected is a new low.

[Grokenstein]

31. "I DELIBERATELY CAUGHT IT FOR YOU BECAUSE I'M SUPER-GOD!! ...But also, too

...those dirty suckers and losers' families prob'bly gave it to me, crawling all over me with their unwashed foreigner bodies and snotty noses. Ew ew ew."

[UnderThisLaw]

33. Well, he is a perfect physical specimen

Even Gold Star families can't keep their hands off him

[BlueWavePsych]

41. Again Drumpf disrespects our military! Vote IT out!