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Trump being airlifted to hospital

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justasking111 · 02/10/2020 22:29

A few months ago it was Boris now it is Trumps turn to be possibly very ill. I hope he is ok. Such a frightening time for americans.

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JudgeRindersMinder · 03/10/2020 01:47

Just sayin....

Trump being airlifted to hospital
blueberrypie0112 · 03/10/2020 02:25

@AlwaysLatte

I'm sure he will be able to access the cleaners' cupboard for bleach, being the POTUS!
He is getting some kind of experimental antibody cocktail.
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PlonkItDownNOW · 03/10/2020 06:48

Those wishing Trump dead should just think how they would feel if people were expressing the hope that their relatives would die of Covid?

If my relative was Trump I would understand. When my grandfather died I felt the same way because he was an abusive POS. HtH.

Livelovebehappy · 03/10/2020 08:59

Oh get a grip people. If you’re like this with someone who is a stranger to you - he’s the president but you don’t know the person, what are you like with people irl who don’t share your opinions? It’s scarey that some people can so casually wish death on another person.

MoggyP · 03/10/2020 09:07

In the USA celebrities and other high profile people get admitted for trivial things like exhaustion

That's code for 'needs to dry out/get clean'

KaptainKaveman · 03/10/2020 09:10

DH said the best case scenario would be for Trump to be extremely ill but to eventually recover, so that he can a) lose the election and b) go to prison for various crimes including tax fraud and such. I'm happy with that scenario.

And to those people saying it's cruel etc to wish him ill - think about the things he has said and done to women, ethnic minorities - calling BLM protesters 'anarchists', calling the war dead 'losers', refusing to condemn white supremacist murders in Charlottesville or Kenosha, calling Mexicans 'rapists'....telling Dubya's brother he liked to 'grab women by the pussy'....personally I think someone of this moral stature and intent deserves to suffer. Don't you?

Poppinjay · 03/10/2020 09:15

There are people on whom I would wish death in order to save the lives of others. Trump is one of them.

My grip is quite secure thanks.

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 03/10/2020 09:17

@Livelovebehappy

Oh get a grip people. If you’re like this with someone who is a stranger to you - he’s the president but you don’t know the person, what are you like with people irl who don’t share your opinions? It’s scarey that some people can so casually wish death on another person.
It goes further than 'not sharing his views'.

This is a man who openly condones sexual assault. Who has publicly mocked disabled people. Who watched a woman who had lost her soldier son unable to speak in front of thousands, and assumed that it was because she was Muslim, not because she was in so much pain that speaking about her son in that situation would be literally impossible.

He has zero empathy for anyone. He literally doesn't give a fuck about anyone. He is racist, misogynist, xenophobic, disablist, he doesn't care if people die because of what he says or does. He says controversial things because he knows it will get him attention and he doesn't care if the consequences affect others.

He is an absolute piece of shit.

I don't wish him dead, because I am a far better person than him. But please stop with the 'it's disgusting, he just has different views that's all' crap.

scaevola · 03/10/2020 09:22

Also rather bizarrely Trump is taking an experimental drug which has yet to be peer reviewed (info released by the whitehouse). This drug is being used under 'compassionate' licensing (info released by the drug company) - this is usually done when no other drug treatment is available to a patient. The drug is being targeted at patients who have an extremely high viral count

Info on the treatment here:

www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/here-s-what-s-known-about-president-trump-s-covid-19-treatment

The drug (or similar) is being used quite widely in Covid patients, including in trials in the UK - there's no emergency use licence in UK because of supply issues. The only supply here is the 2000 sent over for NHS trial use.

So why is the US president taking such a drug?

Because presumably his doctors think he might benefit - people are given promising trial drugs all the time.

As highlighted on twitter you'd have to be crazy to just experiment with it on the president. Other treatments would logically be used first. At least you would think

This is just the ignoranti on Twitter. You use the drug at the point it has most effect. And that's not after viral load has reached extremely high levels, it's to prevent that from happening. And can be used at the same time as other treatments, it's not either/or.

As it turns out Trump is mates with a number of the executives of the drug company, and the CEO plays golf at Trump’s club

Yes, that may well mean that he's heard about the promising treatment - assuming of course that they have been in touch recently.

Al1Langdownthecleghole · 03/10/2020 09:41

Having just watched the new spitting image, I wish the timing had allowed them to include the Trump story.

He won’t go to prison if he survives and loses the election though. He will be diagnosed with a dementia & take the Ernest Saunders defence.

Toddlerteaplease · 03/10/2020 10:09

Boris Johnson did not nearly die. He was on 4l of oxygen and no other support. No one else in. That situation would be given an intensive care bed in a pandemic. Or even at normal times.

KenDodd · 03/10/2020 10:11

I hope the trace all the people he has infected due to his cavalier behaviour and we find out what happens to them all, if any of them die. When he travelled by car after he got out of the helicopter, I noticed the driver was wearing a mask but didn't see a screen separating the back to protect them. If anyone dies after contracting this from Trump, I will blame him for their death. Likewise the SNP MP with covid.

annabel85 · 03/10/2020 10:15

@Toddlerteaplease

Boris Johnson did not nearly die. He was on 4l of oxygen and no other support. No one else in. That situation would be given an intensive care bed in a pandemic. Or even at normal times.
A lot of it was precaution with Boris because he's Prime Minister, although he was clearly unwell. Probably similar with Trump for now at least.

The fact he'll get the best possible treatment gives him a better chance than most who've had it badly. Although his age and comorbidities are a concern. It's hard to see him fighting fit for an election campaign over the coming weeks anyway. Boris still looks fucked now.

toiletpaper · 03/10/2020 16:47

@Toddlerteaplease

Boris Johnson did not nearly die. He was on 4l of oxygen and no other support. No one else in. That situation would be given an intensive care bed in a pandemic. Or even at normal times.
I thought he was on facial cpap at one point? That would be a lot more than 4l of oxygen
Zeebeezee · 03/10/2020 20:03

To my cynical mind it is all manufactured to take the publicity off Joe Biden, and that has worked hasn't it?

I don't wish Trump any ill will, but it is really difficult not to see how some would want him to succumb to Covid. Not going to happen.

He will re emerge just before the election date and proclaim that Covid is a joke and there is nothing to it, look at me.

Sorry for the rant, but this is far too timely for my brain to process without a bit of scepticism.

PerkingFaintly · 04/10/2020 10:15

Putting aside his other behaviour while President and before (and I realise that's a lot to put aside), he's been utterly irresponsible to create this situation for the President of the United States.

He's been doing his damnedest to catch Covid all year, with his mask-refusal, his continual assembling of close-packed crowds and his refusal to follow precautions. And that's despite the best efforts of staff around him to keep him safe and keep him informed about the risks of Covid.

He's not a medic or care worker, taking risks for the benefit of others. He took very high risks for the hell of it, because he wanted to. He made it inevitable that he would catch Covid sooner or later.

And now the US has a Commander-in-Chief in hospital who may become incapacitated. The Presidency isn't a crown, it's a job, and needs someone fit to do the work. His actions may also have infected many other workers in the West Wing, and in the other branches of government: all down at the same time.

This is an unthinkable level of irresponsibility. He's causing a vacuum at the centre of power.

And at an important time like an election, too. He could be re-elected President in November, and by January be clearly too sick longterm to actually do the job.

If I were a supporter of him politically, I'd still be absolutely furious with him as a person for doing this.

He's put his own selfishness before his duty to his office and to his country.

Zeebeezee · 04/10/2020 21:52

It is manufactured to show how great he is, having beaten the virus as all those who died should have beaten it too.

Reprehensible.

But onwards and upwards.

Zeebeezee · 04/10/2020 21:55

Trump is fine. This is a ploy to avoid the upcoming debates and take the focus off Joe Biden.

He is a joke but thinks no one knows this. LOL.

IdkickJilliansass · 04/10/2020 22:35

I’d like him to get really ill with it so he can try and empathise at long last but I just can’t wish death on anyone

milkjetmum · 04/10/2020 22:37

He has just done a drive by to his fans outside the hospital Shock

Inkpaperstars · 04/10/2020 22:57

@IdkickJilliansass

I’d like him to get really ill with it so he can try and empathise at long last but I just can’t wish death on anyone
I think he deserves a fairly hair raising experience with it.

In saying we are being kind really. Trump could have prevented a great many deaths from covid but he blatantly put his own ego and electoral hopes first. He should never had stood for the Presidency since he is incapable of doing the job. On multiple occasions he has shown that he could not care less about his actions increasing the number suffering and dying from covid, it would be staggering if he now expects concern and sympathy. I don't wish death on him either, but if we were strictly thinking of the greatest good of the greatest number, perhaps we should.

IdkickJilliansass · 04/10/2020 23:03

We probably should but I just can’t 😂

Inkpaperstars · 04/10/2020 23:06

I know!

cbt944 · 05/10/2020 01:41

Another motherfucker in a motorcade...