Presidential Debate season, let's stand strong together! (Trump thread #105)

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Here we are!

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From bbc.co.uk website
¶Meanwhile, NBC News reports that Melania Trump, who has remained at the White House with mild symptoms, decided against visiting her husband in hospital because of the risks to staff.

¶"She has Covid," an unnamed official told NBC on Saturday. "That would expose the agents who would drive her there and the medical staff who would walk her up to him."

While this makes Melania sound more considerate than her husband, why am I thinking Yeah, right?

I may have just spent the last 5 minutes replying STEROID DELIRIUM!! on every one of his tweets. Allegedly.

BruceandNosh
Think I'm going to copy you!

Might add a hashtag too, let's get this trending lol

IMO Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett's 'loyalty' (if they feel any) will last until Inauguration Day when it comes to his personal lawsuits. The only caveat is if Scrotus has any dirt on them that could derail their SCOTUS appointment. I can believe there's dirt out there in Kavanaugh's case, not so much Gorsuch and Barrett.

I've given up trying to figure out what the almighty fuck is going on with his Covid diagnosis. I'm tired of veering from 'it's total bullshit' to 'they're hiding the truth of how sick he is'. That man has more lives than a cat when it comes to his PR and his lies.

For those of you who get NBC, there's a Biden Town Hall meeting tonight at 8 pm PDT. Check your local listings to verify the time in your area.

As far as Melania not visiting, I think I'm more inclined to believe that she breathed a sigh of relief as she waved goodbye to Marine One. Then she danced up the stairs, got into her comfiest PJs and ordered her favourite snacks and a nice bottle of wine from the WH cellars brought to her.

I'm picturing her snuggled into bed ("alone! hallelujah!") with a stack of magazines and flicking through Netflix in blessed peace and quiet. She's probably praying that his release is delayed as much as possible.

(Yes, I realize that they probably have separate bedroom suites)

#SteroidPsychosis is trending on Twitter

Just read this...
"Doctor on CNN just said Trump is presenting as someone who has been positive with Covid for over a week. To me, that would mean Trump knew he was positive when he went to debate Biden and his family and supporters refused to wear masks. Trump didn’t care if he got a Biden sick."

McNinny has tested positive.

Here's her statement...

Methinks the lady doth protest too much....

Or anyone else; if he had it, everyone ought to have it. It's the way he thinks.

I swear, if he knew he had the clap he'd try to spread it as much as he could -- and then blame it on one of his sexual partners anyway.

See "It was Hope Hicks' fault." If that doctor is right, he probably gave it to her.

Apparently McNinny held a press gaggle only yesterday. With no mask.

Chickens coming home to roost. Hope she quarantines herself now.

I'm a bad person.
I laughed about McNinny.

However it's a shame that she gets 2 weeks off trying to explain away Trump's behaviour over the last week or so

McNinny ought to have been self quarantining as a precaution before now.

Much too much protesting, agreed.
God what a shitshow.

Yes. She just carried on after hearing about Hope Hicks. It's reckless. No masks. No quarantining because you've been in close contact with someone who's tested positive

Shitshow yes

Wait, wait, wait. In all this madness did Mr Muslim van really tweet ‘religious liberty’?

Fuck me irony is dead and buried.

The news is coming too thick and fast to keep up.

Ban obviously, not van.

@BruceAndNosh

I'm a bad person. I laughed about McNinny.

However it's a shame that she gets 2 weeks off trying to explain away Trump's behaviour over the last week or so

Now I'm wondering who takes over her job.

Is there anyone in the White House who is safe to put in the same room as journalists?

It sounds like a petri dish.

Now I'm worried all us MNetters will catch it just from posting about Trump - he's that bloody infectious! Typhoid Mary has nothing on him.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/don-jr-thinks-trump-is-acting-crazy-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided?utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=vf&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned

According to sources, Don Jr. has told friends that he tried lobbying Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner to convince the president that he needs to stop acting unstable. “Don Jr. has said he wants to stage an intervention, but Jared and Ivanka keep telling Trump how great he’s doing,” a source said. Don Jr. is said to be reluctant to confront his father alone. “Don said, ‘I’m not going to be the only one to tell him he’s acting crazy,’” the source added.

One area where the family seems united is over the president’s manic tweeting early Monday morning. After Trump sent out more than a dozen all-caps tweets, the Trump children told people they want Trump to stop. “They’re all worried. They’ve tried to get him to stop tweeting,” a source close to the family told me.

The Trump family’s private concern about Trump’s behavior could raise questions about his fitness for office. Trump has been prescribed drugs that medical experts say can seriously impair his cognitive function. Last night the New York Times reported that steroids, which Trump is reportedly taking, specifically dexamethasone, are known to “affect mood, causing euphoria or a general happiness.”

There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness. According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the 1990s. “To retire is to expire!” Fred Sr. would say. The friend said that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr. would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it could only dial out to his secretary. “Fred pretended to work,” the family friend said.

The White House did not immediately respond for comment.

Jon Sopel on BBC Radio 4 PM programme just now said that at least one reporter has now tested positive.

I thought we already knew of three reporters testing positive.

www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/covid-19-three-white-house-reporters-test-positive-others-quarantine/
and
nypost.com/2020/10/02/three-white-house-reporters-test-positive-for-covid-19/

It's probably not nice of me, but since this whole shit show of cascading positives started I've been shaking my booty and singing 'Another One Bites the Dust'.

Now y'all get up off your duffs and join me!!!

[quote AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]I thought we already knew of three reporters testing positive.

www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/covid-19-three-white-house-reporters-test-positive-others-quarantine/
and
nypost.com/2020/10/02/three-white-house-reporters-test-positive-for-covid-19/[/quote]
I might have misheard Jon Sopel AQATT.

Across I'm in !

Apparently it's being reported that two of McNinny's assistants have also tested positive.

I think they all need to quarantine for 14 days.

Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Two of Kayleigh McEnany’s deputies in the press shop have now tested positive as well, CNN has confirmed

Maybe he meant one of them now has symptoms? That would make sense, because I'm sure the BBC had already mentioned positive tests. (Otherwise I probably wouldn't have known about them.)

I've been shaking my booty and singing 'Another One Bites the Dust'
me too, let's ROCK ON:o