Lex Luthor
When I heard it last night, I thought it was a joke. It’s not.
“In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt.”
Two things:
Thing Uno: My grandson loves to do that. He’s 6. And, come to think of it, counting the five dollar haul he got from the tooth fairy last week, he’s got more money than Trump.
Thing Other: That’s what steroids will do to your brain.
Thing I forgot to count: I would pay cash money to see Trump rip over anything.
Coughing with a dry hack as he managed to pop one button off his shirt, Trump gave up and slowly unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a t shirt stretched tightly over his obese form, setting off waves of jiggling with each spell of hacking cough. With Trump doubled over the t shirt’s message could not be clearly seen, but we’ve been assured that “libs were triggered”.
1“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the super-est man of all!” And the mirror, being somewhat more honest than his sycophantic courtiers and supposed practitioners of medicine, takes one look at Caesar Disgustus stuffed into an XXL superman t-shirt and grabs the disinfectant from the hospital wall and tries to blur itself permanently. (Now Obama could pull this one off… in fact even Biden could do ok at this one.) I will give credit, though, it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of Trump thinking up something funny, though probably not in the way he intended.
2I do not believe he even had COVID. The whole thing was a publicity stunt calculated to gain him sympathy. It didn’t work either.
3I expect Trump still has “walking COVID” – he’s probably getting oxygen and anything else needed to let him walk out and give a speech without coughing.
Or it could simply be that Trump’s incredible luck, plus aggressive treatment unavailable to the rest of us, got him through. As long as he’s well enough to check into Leavenworth for tax evasion, I’ll be OK.
4I don’t believe Trump has the strength to rip open his shirt.
It would have been fun to watch him fail, though.
5As a member of the club known for their blatant hate of “government over regulation”, Trump must find himself in an odd position right now. Thanks to HIPPA – one of them thar darn regulations – his doctors cannot spill the beans. But that doesn’t mean trump will smarten up and be thankful – or sane.
6Maggie, all of us on medical school faculty and staff, and presumably doctors at Walter Reed, have to take HIPAA training and certification every year. There is a public health exception, which does cover informing people who may have been exposed to a communicable disease. He has certainly exposed other people during his infectious period, and they at least have a right to know when that began. Beyond that, of course, there is the personal integrity that most of us feel would preclude a doctor lying about a patient’s condition even if doctors are not free to comment at greater length. Interestingly, Trump seems to have authorized his doctors to give some statements on his health, just not to give the truth, or the complete picture.
7Trump pretty much pulled off the first half of the stunt after his release from Walter Reed, looking frail, walking slowly, grimacing in pain, gasping for breath. Oh, and now that his Superman idea has been revealed – – debilitated mental function and decision making.
Oh Donnie, is that a lump of kryptonite in your pocket? Because the way you look it couldn’t be anything else.
8JJ, you overlooked the fact that your grandson probably paid at least as much in taxes as Naranjaputo and is better equipped to be Gran Jefe
9Actually, I would LOVE to see Trump put on the Superman shirt, and then leap off a tall building.
10@Linda Phipps
11Yes. A one-and-a-half gainer, 3.5 degree of difficulty. Lands on his chin.
Yes, a leap from trumpf tower after the election would be a possibility because he will be cornered like a rat for all his fraud.
12Melanoma knows he wasn’t Kidding and had to be talked down from it. A malignant narcissist on steroids, but he already thought he was Superman
Maggie, actually if a patient poses a danger to public health, that overrides HIPAA. Source?
You’re not going to believe this: Khizar Khan.
In addition to being a Gold Star dad, he’s a lawyer specializing in health law.
13This is why trump’s condition used to be called “second childhood.”
14How can this whack job not be 25th amendmented already?!
He is clearly mentally incapacitated and his actions pose a hazard to himself and others. When this is resolved, the MDs who didn’t resign need to be held responsible for their actions…
15Old Fart: that’s probably why Pelosi has started the process for getting a 25th amendment committee going, because once Trump loses he’ll have even less restraint than he has now. He’ll figure he may as well pull down the temple on everyone’s head.
Plus after he loses, all the Republican suck-ups will suddenly realize (with shock!) that Trump is a dangerous, brain-dead, lunatic grifter. Once Justice Handmaiden is ensconced, they’ll have no reason to continue to act like Trump is the greatest President ever.
16If Trump implying he is Superman that means he was not born in the USA and cannot be President. PLUs HE IS AN ALIEN and deportable
17Was glad to se Dr Fauci call bullshit on Trumpf’s new ad where he was falsely quoted. What needs to happen is all major news outlets need to share that and Fauci needs to actually say Trumpf failed bigly. Bigly being a Trumpf favorite word.
18Where is Melania???
19Underscore Laurel and Harry Eager’s comments. Professional ethics have been abdicated by all these folks, caving to Trump and fear.
20For those of you who followed DC comics and Superman, it certainly would have been fitting for Donnie to pull this stunt as we have been in a bizarro world since his election. Worth a Google.
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