Hope Died the Day Trump Didn’t
The Washington Post has published a harrowing account by insiders of Trump’s case of Covid19 last October that was downplayed and lied about since the day he got sick. As we all assumed, Trump was a LOT more ill than his staff or doctors lead us to believe, and he left for the hospital only when convinced how bad it would look if he waited so long that he would be taken on a gurney rather than walking to Marine One. The story also confirms what we all assumed, that he lived ONLY because he was president. WH doctors poured every known treatment to him as he got more ill, including the experimental therapy, the monoclonal antibody treatment. And then HHS secretary Alex Azar pulled strings so Trump could jump the line in front of others. At the time Trump received the treatment, only 10 people had received it. That treatment, and the others performed at the same time (which was unprecedented) undoubtedly saved his sorry life.
Trump’s contempt for science, human life, and common sense is well known. He forced aides to remove their masks in his presence, even while complaining to them that WH visitors would often get too close to him during events he insisted on holding. Covid19 outbreaks became so common that then CDC director Robert Redfield labeled 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as “not safe”. Because of Trump’s defiant ignorance, untold numbers of staffers, their families, and visitors were exposed and fell ill. Almost 900 Secret Service employees contracted the infection, HALF of them special agents who protected Trump, his family, and Pence. God knows how many fell ill from exposure during Trump’s idiotic Hitleresque rallies.
The worst part of this story, though, was that the gargantuan effort to save Trump actually backfired. Everyone had assumed that Trump having a near death experience would change him and he would reverse himself on the Coronavirus response, encouraging mitigation measures and preparing for the vaccine. Doctors were trying to decide when they would start speaking their mind about the disease. Staffers were preparing for a reversal of Trump idiocy. They were all wrong. Literally dead wrong. Trump insisted on returning to the WH early, and when he did return he was still very ill, but even more defiant. He insisted on climbing the stairs on the South Portico and barely made it. He then turned to the cameras and yanked off his mask revealing his heavy orange stage makeup, turned and stalked back into the WH. Nothing changed.
That was the day that hope died because Trump didn’t. And that’s the truth.
‘And we sang dirges in the dark. The day the music died. ~
1Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey in Rye.
Singin’ “This’ll be the day that I die. This’ll be the day that I die”.
On a positive note, I’m glad for anyone in his vicinity that he didn’t need an organ donor.
2Add to this account one newly appointed female Supreme Court Judge. She caught the virus before she was nominated and then took her kids to the White House super spreader, no make, no distancing. Just as nuts as the guy who nomnated her.
3The article confirmed much of what seemed to take place behind the scenes. I’d like to think enough voters suspected as much, and Trump’s actions and responses are what cost him the election.
4It would be interesting, if there was an honest doctor in the house, to learn what after effects he is experiencing…permanent or not.
5I read that in the Post. The Old Pretenders handlers didn’t want to let on how bad it was. They needed Azars approval because monoclonal antibodies was experimental for COVID, but they didn’t want to tell Azars who it was. Finally, he got so bad they had to tell Azars, and by then his oxygen level was 93% and they had to rush him to the hospital.
6Looking at the statistics over at WaPo.com, I note with grim pleasure that 99% of the hospitalizations are non-mask wearers/anti-vaxxers, which strongly overlaps Rethugs and other nutty people.
7Can’t help but speculate on the pushback against Rethugs in 2022-2024 for killing their own through vicious propaganda about how to stay healthy.
Will Covid swing the next few elections?
Might help counterbalance the CRT stupidity that’s freaking out citizens about their kids being indoctrinated in school. Dems own that little piece of junk sociology.
Hurricane/flood season is a little early this year. Wonder if FEMA will function?
Just another example of people in power getting whatever they need. I don’t often wish people dead, I’m not sure I ever have, but I am so sorry he came out of that hospital alive
8Tangerine Man ONLY took his mask off when cameras were around .
9The reality of Trump is plenty bad enough that you don’t have to exaggerate to make the case against him.
First, a small point. Trump is reported to have been only the tenth case to have been granted compassionate use of monoclonal antibodies, which is use outside the clinical trials ongoing. Plenty more than ten people had gotten this treatment, which really hasn’t proven in those clinical trials to be the miracle you portray it as being with the claim that Trump would have surely died without that treatment.
The bigger point is that, of course they threw everything they could at Trump’s case of COVID, treatments not available to you and me had we been just as sick with COVID at the same time as Trump. They would do the same for whoever was president.
Maybe part of why they did this for Trump and would do it for any president is the foolish and dangerous notion that a president is more deserving and more important as a person than you or me. We have made a cult out of the presidency, and that is pretty awful.
But aside from that unworthy reason to give any president, however unworthy you and I may think him as a person, the best available treatments for life threatening medical conditions even if those aren’t available for people we correctly think are worth more, is that the death of a president would create a national crisis.
In this case, Pence succeeding a COVID martyr Trump at exactly that time on the political calendar would have gone a long way to insuring that Pence would have won the election that followed a few months later. Any president gets a honeymoon that lasts at least a few months, and a president who succeeds a president who dies in office gets a huge completely undeserved sympathy boost.
Add to that the consequences if Trump had died right after the Deep State had denied Trump a treatment that ten other people had gotten on a compassionate use basis.
Lord knows our politics has plenty enough extraneous distractors. The Rs are basically down to this as their only political strategy — bring in some personal scandal or ginned-up fake culture war concern to distract voters from their predominant policy agreement with our side. Presidents, all presidents, even the presidential warts like Trump, should be given the best possible medical treatment for this predominant reason — to keep politics as focused as we can keep it on public policy, rather than personal drama and conspiracy theories about how the recently dead president might have survived if only the Deep State hadn’t pretty much assassinated him by denying him an available medical treatment.
10“Everyone had assumed that Trump having a near death experience would change him….”
That is a common mistake! People fail to understand who he really is: everything is always about “I” to any human who has malignant narcissist psychological syndrome.
Why would such a person — who truly sees himself as wonderfully unique and is proud of himself — ever want to change?
We rarely run into a malignant narcissist (luckily!) but when we, like the “everyone” in the essay do, we don’t know how to respond.
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