Really?
Courtesy of the AP:
President Donald Trump said Friday he could have become very ill and might not have recovered from COVID-19 without experimental drugs, a far worse outlook than what his doctors were telling the American people.
“I was asking the doctors today … and I said, ‘How bad was I?’ They said: ‘You could have been very bad. You were going into a very bad phase,’” Trump told Rush Limbaugh during his radio show.
“It looked like it was going to be a big deal and you know what that means, right? That means bad because I’ve lost five people,” Trump added, referring to acquaintances who have died.
Trump said that after contracting the virus, he was “not in the greatest of shape.” He added that “I might not have recovered at all” without treatment with experimental drugs.
Trump’s comments on the seriousness of his case of coronavirus contrast with generally upbeat public statements about his condition that his doctors released after his diagnosis and while he was hospitalized.
Trump’s doctor also weighed in on his recovery.
Courtesy of NYT:
President Trump’s doctor said on Thursday that he’s completed his treatments to alleviate the symptoms of the coronavirus and that he anticipates that the president will be able to resume “public engagements” on Saturday.
The forecast about Mr. Trump’s condition came from the White House physician, Dr. Sean Conley, in a note updating people on his health. Mr. Trump announced shortly before 1 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, had tested positive for the virus; White House officials have declined to say when he last tested negative.
In the note on Thursday, Dr. Conley said that Mr. Trump has remained “stable” and “devoid” of symptoms that would suggest the illness was progressing.
“Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday’s diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the president’s safe return to public engagements at that time,” Dr. Conley said.
I don’t think any of us have too much confidence in Dr. Conley anymore, especially since in radio interviews Trump stills sounds ill.
JUST NOW: “He sounds congested still…This isn’t political intrigue, this is decent humanity at this point. He sounds sick and he is 74 years old.”@drsanjaygupta on @realDonaldTrump coughing during Fox interview.pic.twitter.com/U1OjkDIxTB
— John Berman (@JohnBerman) October 9, 2020
That does not sound like somebody who has completely recovered or finished all of their treatment.
However if Trump wants to go back on the campaign trail and possibly infect more of his supporters there is literally nobody who can stop him.
Supposedly Trump is going to get tested live on the Sean Hannity show tonight.
I will update this post to include that after it happens.
Update: Never mind about the test, it didn’t happen.
Gee, I wonder why?
Wackjob.
While everyone coils into the fetal position, just sitting here watching while having a beer or four.
Cheers! VOTE.
How’s your hangover this morning?
Oh so now he was on the verge of dying and made this miraculous recovery, spin donnie spin the LIES. trump has risen again just like Christ HA HA
Nothing about following CDC protocol and have 3 negative tests before leaving quarantine.
Personally I don’t care because he is only going to infect his staff and supporters again
this whole episode has been one PR stunt after another, in fact, just wait until it comes out he faked the whole thing, like his bone spurs.
by the way, the wonderful judge Amy children’s school just had an outbreak, gosh wonder where they all got it from, the rose garden super spreader to her kids to the school ,that’s where.
Is that the same theocracy-loving Amy? What an ignorant woman.
Fake tweet, “my blood IS the vaccine” is just that. Fake.
As for judge Amy, play you pay. They’ll still vote her in.
Dr. Fauci said two negative PCR tests 48 hours apart. Since no doctor, no one, announced the PCR test today is negative we can intuit it was positive.
I pity Trump if he is so needy for adulation to stage an event tomorrow as a PR stunt after a super spreader event. He is a pitiful person to travel to Florida for a rally on Monday. Every citizen’s health risk has increased because Trump supporters will drink his current Covid Kool Aid endangering us when they get Covid by going out. Damn Fox News for spreading his lies.
With every moral and empathetic trace in my being, I cannot and will not feel sorry for any of them. Such holier than thou pissants, how many times has it been said on this blog “it’s coming for them” and it has. I’m supposed to feel clutch my pearls and pray? HELL no. Just imagine how drugged up he will have to be to pull that off. Fine. Sucks to be him when it wears off.
exactly
My personal feeling is his ego will get the best of him and he’s not going to make it. Melania gets her wish.
Joke’s on the First Golddigger; Trump has no money.
LOL, talk about making B.S. into an art form, the only thing that hasn’t change is the diarrhea of the butt hole mouth
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>The president said he’d been “medication-free” for the last eight hours in his appearance on host Tucker Carlson’s show
>>He later revised that claim to say he had taken “pretty much nothing”
>>>had taken his “final doses of just about everything” that day.
I’m waiting for Pence. They will NEVER say he has it. but I’ll bet anyone he does.
Me too.
Barr do your f*cking JOB?! https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1314522770336821249
BARR ACCUSED OF PERJURY by Michigan AG
“He had no idea there were any threats … yet his own authorities were actively working to foil these types of plans … which seems very curious to me that either A: He didn’t know what was happening in his own DOJ or B: He committed perjury.”
Hillary has a vaccine. Its called the Popular Vote,
As we all know, Republicans are 100% opposed to the use of aborted fetal tissue in medical research.
Three of the four drugs with which Trump was treated were developed from fetal tissue research.
Two of the COVID vaccines under development originated in fetal tissue research.
Just saying.
Looks like Chris Christie may be the next to Herman Cain himself. Remdesivir to the test.
Trump upon death: “I hardly knew him.”
I have wondered how Christie and others connected to the WH are doing and their reaction to Trump claiming he feels 20 years younger.
I would like to know how many other people at the SCOTUS nominee event and Gold Star event also got Covid.
That 20 years younger is the Dexamethasone talking.
Bill Barr: “There is no systemic racism in law enforcement.”
The AG general typically weighs in on high-profile cases, however, Bill Barr has yet to publicly address the Michigan investigation. Barr was recently briefed on the investigation Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told CNN https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1314629300230877184
I’m not buying Department of Justice spokesperson Kerri Kupec lying for Barr. He had to self-quarantine after he was caught being so reckless with Trump in the garden.
And now he has to acknowledge Michigan’s terrorists (disguised as militia). But he is not engaged, never was b/c he is the law, head of government systemic racism. Trump’s law and order is a bad joke. His mad toad convid-19 ride has zero order. Before his order was very little and still madness.
Salon. Trump praises “Miracle from God” as cells are used from an aborted fetus to treat him for Covid-19. Oh. Boy. Hypocrite anyone?
Wonder how the Talibangelicals will feel about the fact that treatment was tested with cells from an aborted fetus. Will they refuse treatment (if it’s even available) on principle? I doubt it given the high hypocrisy index among them.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-regeneron-fetal-tissue-hypocrisy_n_5f80d8ddc5b6e5c31ffe666e
In other news, there will be no debate in South Carolina because Miss Lindsey refuses to take a Covid test. Now could it be because he was exposed to Mike Lee? Or that the SCOTUS hearings are set to start October 19th and Graham doesn’t want to take a chance on testing positive.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-carolina-senate-debate-canceled-after-lindsey-graham-refuses-to-take-covid-19-test_n_5f80dd6dc5b62f97bac29f13
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a responsible adult as president?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-in-person-event-coronavirus_n_5f80bdbac5b62f97bac2681f
“President Donald Trump plans to resume in-person events beginning this weekend, around a week after he was airlifted to Walter Reed hospital to treat his coronavirus symptoms ― and just five days since he was discharged.
On Saturday, the president will attend an in-person event Saturday on the South Lawn of the White House, according to multiple reports. He is expected to speak “to peaceful protesters for law and order” from a White House balcony, ABC News reported Friday.
Hundreds of people are expected at the event, per The New York Times.
Two days later, on Monday evening, Trump will hold an in-person campaign rally in Sanford, Florida. He promised it will be “very BIG.””
Oh, and de Santis doesn’t want him in Florida.
I say if people are stupid enough to go to the South Lawn let them. Fewer vote come election day. Culling the herd of the stupid and gullible.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tucker-carlson-coronavirus_n_5f80e54fc5b62f97bac2a452
“The president said he’d been “medication-free” for the last eight hours in his appearance on host Tucker Carlson’s show at 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday night — his first on-screen interview since contracting the coronavirus. He later revised that claim to say he had taken “pretty much nothing” and had taken his “final doses of just about everything” that day. ”
Yeah, he has to say that because everyone has been pointing out that Dexamethasone causes some serious mental impairments. So he has to stop taking it so it can’t be used against him.
“In the Fox News interview, Trump also addressed his widely criticized drive near the hospital to wave to supporters while still hospitalized, saying “it was a great display of love out there” and that he wanted to “go out and say hi.”
Trump also claimed that his Secret Service agents — two of whom were in the car with him, risking their health — had “no problem” with it.
“I love the people of this country and I thought it would have been very disrespectful … if I didn’t go out and at least give them a wave,” Trump said. “I’m very glad I did it.” ”
Liar, liar, liar, liar. The joyride was a compromise with his doctors; he wanted to check out and go back to the White House and they wanted him to stay. Among so many other things. It was all about Trump. Trump looking “strong.” Trump reveling in the attention. Trump throwing a hissy and getting his way. Trump hating hospitals.
“Meanwhile, since Trump left Walter Reed hospital on Monday, his medical team has not held a single press event where reporters could ask questions about the president’s health. ”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-covid19-fox-news_n_5f80caa2c5b62f97bac27f75
“In the four days since President Donald Trump left the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his medical team has not done a single press event where reporters could ask questions about the president’s health. They have provided only a daily letter with scant and sometimes contradictory information, leaving the entire country without any meaningful information about the health of a 74-year-old president who has contracted the novel coronavirus.
Trump has instead undertaken a manic spree of tweets, bizarre prerecorded videos, and appearances on friendly conservative media outlets to proclaim he’s back to full health. This public relations campaign will culminate Friday night in a televised health exam on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s prime-time show, performed by pro-Trump stalwart Marc Siegel, an internist and frequent Fox News contributor.
The likely absurdity of this performance — not only is Siegel unreliable, but he will conduct the “exam” remotely and it will be pre-recorded — underscores that not only are Americans not getting real updates about the president’s health 25 days before the election, but there is a high chance they are being actively misled.
Siegel is Fox News’ go-to source for medical analysis and has appeared on the channel over 300 times since the start of the year. Throughout the pandemic, he has repeatedly promoted unsubstantiated claims that tend to fit with the White House narrative on coronavirus. Early on, he downplayed the threat from COVID-19, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity in early March that “worst-case scenario, it could be the flu,” and promoting the unproven anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for the virus.”
Yet another quack masquerading as a doctor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-in-person-event-coronavirus_n_5f80bdbac5b62f97bac2681f
“President Donald Trump plans to resume in-person events beginning this weekend, around a week after he was airlifted to Walter Reed hospital to treat his coronavirus symptoms ― and just five days since he was discharged.
On Saturday, the president will attend an in-person event Saturday on the South Lawn of the White House, according to multiple reports. He is expected to speak “to peaceful protesters for law and order” from a White House balcony, ABC News reported Friday.
Hundreds of people are expected at the event, per The New York Times.
Two days later, on Monday evening, Trump will hold an in-person campaign rally in Sanford, Florida. He promised it will be “very BIG.””
Trump coughed all the way through the phone interview with Hannity. It doesn’t sound like he’s over the virus to me. I hope he has stopped taking his meds, so he’ll get worse. May he join Herman Cain by October 19.
I am possessed of a black heart but I have an image in my head just now.
Fox hunting stewards drag an object drenched in fox scent so the hounds and humans can have fun with no harm to a fox. Deer hunters have different scents (aka urine) to conceal their tracks.
I can see Trump, spitting all over the crowd, suddenly stopping while he tries to figure out what the hell is that SMELL that is coming from the balcony railing, onto his hands, maybe on his shoes …
Yeah, it’s sick but it’d be a blast to watch.
Trump is a one man carnival and no one has caught on as they just love the entertainment.