Geraldo And The Bright Idea Sweepstakes
Geraldo Rivera, Fox News correspondent-at-large, has come up with a solution for Donald Trump’s recent bad mood. Honey, it’s a doozy.
Speaking on Friday morning’s Fox & Friends, Rivera suggested naming the COVID-19 vaccine after Trump so he doesn’t feel so bad about himself. Rivera said: “With the world so divided and everybody telling him he’s got to give up and it’s time to leave and time to transition and all the rest of it, why not name the vaccine ‘The Trump?’
Well, one pretty good reason not to is that you don’t give a man a medal for firefighting when he starts the fire.
You know, I guess the part that bothers me most is that these are the same people who walked around with big signs that said, “F*** Your Feelings.”
Trump had nothing to do with Pfizer’s vaccine. They didn’t take government money. And best I understand it, Dolly Parton (Could you possibly love her any more than you already do?) had far more to do with Moderna’s research than Trump did.
**turns on Fox & Friends**
"Why not name the vaccine the Trump, make it — have you gotten your Trump yet? It would be a nice gesture to him." pic.twitter.com/K64Mw8J6Vk
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 20, 2020
I have a better idea – let’s name nasal congestion after Geraldo.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
This is a tactic that’s as old as Adam and Eve. Make yourself a pest and then offer to stop being a pest if you give them a cookie. You don’t get a cookie. The longer you wait to give up the worse it will be for you. Sit down and shut up.
1Geraldo should go back to searching for Al Capone’s booty since it wasn’t in the safe.
I was a kid when he became one of TV news’ first superstars
for doing a series on the mismanagement of the Willowbrook
Home for mentally disabled in NYC.
He actually uncovered atrocities being committed and did it in a professional way that got things addressed. Sort of like Giuliani was once a respectable US attorney that people looked up to.
It’s amazing how far these people have fallen and the crap they will do to remain relevant and in the spotlight. Fluffing the loser in public. Just disgusting.
2One of my favorite Far Side cartoon is the devil escorting people to their place in hell. There’s one door for murderers, one for terrorists and one for people who drive slow in the fast lane. I hope he’s got a door ready for his majesty and his minions to all be together there when they arrive. And that includes the people who jumped ship in order to make a buck on CNN and MSNBC.
3About 30 years ago the great Carl Hiaasen included in his novel Skin Tight a character named “Reynaldo Flemm” who was obviously based on Geraldo; and which should have been enough to end the career of the Mustachioed Weasel then and there. Moral of the story: it would be in America’s interest for everyone to read more Hiaasen, I guess.
4I have a better way to honor DJT.
“I’m going to take a Trump.”
“Don’t forget to wipe your Donald when you’re done.”
5Well, if we’re going to name a national disaster after DJT, I’d like to recommend the pandemic; name it the Donald Disaster and put the number of deaths after the name.
6I dunno, is this vaccine going to be administered via a really big suppository?
Rich in Fla, a surgeon friend of mine who trained in NY considered that Gerry Rivers’s expose was wildly overblown. his particular objection was the keynote of Rivers’s report: the administration of an experimental hepatitis vaccine to children incapable of giving consent.
The ethical question was complicated: 98% were getting hepatitis. These were such severely disabled children that it was nigh impossible to keep them clean.
No doubt the state could have tried harder; on the othrt hand, where were the private helpers we hear so much about from the rightwingers?
Rivers’s goal, then as now,was whipping up the rubes not investigating with any seriousness.
7I suggest in any vaccine trials naming the placebo a Donald.
8I’m with Sam #5 his name should be another Santorum.
9Trump’s Virus: Make America a Graveyard Again. Has killed more Americans than a number of wars have caused American official combat deaths through the determined ignorance and cruel policies of Trump’s Party and the Vicious Leader himself.
Sam in Superior: if I had to think of any part of my body as “my Donald” it would offend me and I’d have to destroy it, not wipe it. However humble, aged, wrinkled, and unattractive it might be to most, it’s mine…and thank God and all angels it’s not Trump’s stuck onto my torso.
10I heartily second Ralph Wiggam’s @9 motion.
11“let’s name nasal congestion after Geraldo”
12Sounds good. But what’s the best medical term for the entire right wing alternative reality machine that geraldo
Is a tiny part of?
Gastroenteritis
As a symptom of some sort of intestinal tract cancer.
Both Geraldo and Giuliani are crazy. They do what they do because it’s the only way they can be employed. And the likes of Fox enables them (and many others). While Fox recently acted like they had some sense, after Trumpf is out, they’ll need to keep supporting the crazies and conspiracies because without those, they’ll be out of viewers. I love sports, but frankly, I won’t give them my support by watching their sports division. We should boycott them.
13As far as giving Trumpf a binkie by naming a coronavirus vaccine after him, that is a sick joke. Maybe if Pfizer comes up with a vaccine and cure for Trumpf ism, that would work for me.
Finally, I am waiting to hear what the MI senate leadership really says to Trumpf today at the White House. It’s one thing for Trumpf to try to use a foreign government to help him with his election, but trying to coerce state government leadership to overturn an election should considered treason- on Trumpf and the legislators if they bow down. Expect he’ll try to bribe them.
Here’s an idea Geraldo should have come up with 8 months ago:
Instead of flaunting the CDC recommendations, suggest Trump embrace them. He should encourage his supporters to wear a Trump 2020 logo mask, at all times in public. Ivanka can sell a designer version on his re-election website for $25, and give them out free at rallies. For Trump Republicans they get their message out cheap 24/7, for the rest of us we stay alive. There’d probably be 200,000 fewer deaths.
But no, the best Geraldo can come up with is a Participation & Purposeful Transmission Trophy.
These people, “the best people” can’t see an opportunity if it’s sneezed and coughed directly in their face. Duh.
14Are there two strains of Covid-19? There’s the strain that has infected half of the WH and those around Donnie with the variant infecting the world. There also seem to be a second variant that effects all of Donnie’s covidiots with a special strain of stupid. And no, Gerry, no vaccine to be named for Donnie. He’ll soon be receiving the type of medical attention he really deserves – at Riker’s Island.
15Wait, I already named the VIRUS the Trump!
16Also, four more than 4 years, we have called the little bags we dog owners use to pick,up the TRUMP in public places as “ Trump sacs”, ‘cause, you know…
Hitler had a lot of things named after him and all of them were atrocities. Kind of appropriate for him. Just let history do her part as to what things are forever named tRump. He was so big into branding.
17Hey Joyce!! I thought exactly the same thing. Congrats for posting it first!!
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