Trump, who is still very much infected with COVID19, was discharged from the hospital with great fanfare yesterday even though, at times, he looked quite miserable, ill, and breathless. But he managed to pull through his return as best he could, wanting to appear strong and healthy I’m sure, making his way to the White House from Marine One only to remove his face covering when he got there.
“I feel good,” he declared, giving the media a double thumbs-up, holding in staggered breathing while probably still feeling the effects of the drug cocktail he was served up that day. He then proceeded to enter the White House, still maskless — the same White House that he turned into a massive COVID-19 hotspot less than a week ago.
He is still praised highly by those he helped to infect, even if it is just for standing up:
Love seeing our President @realDonaldTrump return home to the White House & stand strongly on the balcony! pic.twitter.com/jb6gcbfv7A
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) October 5, 2020
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As we expected, before he even left the hospital Trump started to downplay the disease by tweeting out that he felt better than he did twenty years ago (probably from the drugs) and telling the nation not to let it dominate them. Trump’s handling, or rather mishandling, of this virus is one, if not the singular major reason that COVID-19 is still hitting the United States as hard as it is, and it is hard to not let it dominate us to a degree, considering we have breached 210,000 lives lost to it.
Not content to just be plain ole horrible this morning he kicked it up a notch and tweeted out this:
Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu. Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020
Learn to live with it, he says. That task is far easier when you are offered the best healthcare possible. Despite his claims to be immune to the illness now, he isn’t. Nor is he out of the woods yet. He claims he has learned about the virus, even though that was his job months ago, and he has regressed back to comparing the disease to influenza. The flu can be deadly, though a lot of that can be attributed to other healthcare issues America faces. But the fact is that this disease has taken 10,000 lives away in just the past thirteen days and that doesn’t begin to compare with the flu.
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