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PSPS

(13,513 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:34 PM May 2020

Trump dismisses hydroxychloroquine study that undermines him as a "Trump enemy statement"

Source: Vox

President Donald Trump is now dismissing medical information promulgated by his own government as a “Trump enemy statement.”

Trump made that remark on Tuesday afternoon, when he was asked following a lunch with Republican senators to explain his rationale for promoting unproven and potentially dangerous hydroxychloroquine treatments for coronavirus. The president’s ensuing effort to defend the stunning announcement he made on Monday that he’s taking the anti-malarial drug didn’t end up making much sense. But it did reveal a reflexive contempt for scientific reasoning that undercuts his talking points.

“Why is it okay for you to promote the use of this drug when you’re not a doctor?” a reporter asked. Trump responded by making a case that he knows better than medical professionals do.

“I worked with doctors,” he began. “If you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape, they were very old, almost dead. It was a Trump enemy statement.”

Read more: https://www.vox.com/2020/5/19/21263989/trump-hydroxychloroquine-study-enemy-statement-fda

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Trump dismisses hydroxychloroquine study that undermines him as a "Trump enemy statement" (Original Post) PSPS May 2020 OP
"He works with Doctors"? Not in my reality. OAITW r.2.0 May 2020 #1
+1 n/t Laelth May 2020 #3
Yeah but don't forget about his uncle and the stair-falling. underpants May 2020 #6
If I couldn't laugh, I would go insane. OAITW r.2.0 May 2020 #8
Thousands of old, angry Democrats are throwing themselves down stairs just to make him look bad flibbitygiblets May 2020 #11
The Russian window falling season has been unusually severe. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #16
Da! underpants May 2020 #17
COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!! I'll be calling my congress people. Time for 25th Amend. for real. diva77 May 2020 #2
So....science? underpants May 2020 #4
there's the fishface again Skittles May 2020 #5
He is nuttier than squirrel shit. LudwigPastorius May 2020 #7
Right because it is all about him. Imagine giving a drug to sick people! applegrove May 2020 #9
Rational adults can accept correction from others without labeling them as enemies. tanyev May 2020 #10
👆 Drum May 2020 #12
Trump doesn't so much unload his stupid on the world Solly Mack May 2020 #13
HE'S A LIAR, SO WHY DO WE TAKE HIS WORD FOR ANYTHING blakstoneranger May 2020 #14
The flip side to megalomania is extreme paranoia Warpy May 2020 #15
So the Yale School of Medicine is part of "the deep state" which wants to make Trump look bad? Botany May 2020 #18
What a nice world it would be Aussie105 May 2020 #19
"Trump enemy" Leith May 2020 #20

OAITW r.2.0

(23,851 posts)
1. "He works with Doctors"? Not in my reality.
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:37 PM
May 2020

He is incapable of processing information that doesn't already comport with his world-view.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
6. Yeah but don't forget about his uncle and the stair-falling.
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:40 PM
May 2020

Though the official count is almost certainly an undercount, the president seems to think that a lot of people who appear to die from coronavirus are actually “killed by other unnatural means, such as falling down a flight of stairs.”

Apparently Trump would have us believe the 2020 stair-falling season has been unusually severe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/18/only-america-is-sunday-day-after-thursday/

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
11. Thousands of old, angry Democrats are throwing themselves down stairs just to make him look bad
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020

It's just so unfair, more unfair than any president has ever been treated.

diva77

(7,605 posts)
2. COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!! I'll be calling my congress people. Time for 25th Amend. for real.
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:37 PM
May 2020

"fact" is a four-letter word to this monster



K&R for exposure

It has been time for the 25th amendment since Nov. 8, 2016.

LudwigPastorius

(8,944 posts)
7. He is nuttier than squirrel shit.
Tue May 19, 2020, 10:41 PM
May 2020

It's amazing to see how long the general media can continue covering that man without prefacing every report with the disclaimer that he is mentally ill and dangerously unfit for the office.

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
13. Trump doesn't so much unload his stupid on the world
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:05 PM
May 2020

Rather, he destroys the dam and then sweeps the village away with his ignorance. Ignorance that rushes forward, destroying town after town.

The flood of ignorance made all the more deadly because there are people standing in its path who cheer the ignorance on. Praising the dam breaker for freeing them from the math and science of it all.

 

blakstoneranger

(333 posts)
14. HE'S A LIAR, SO WHY DO WE TAKE HIS WORD FOR ANYTHING
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:10 PM
May 2020

We have caught him in thousands of lies and yet everytime he says something we tend to take him at his word. He says he took the hydroxychloroquine and everybody is just talking about how risky it is for him to take it. But get this, WHAT IF HE IS LYING!! IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE BIGGEST LIAR TO EVER SIT AT THE RESOLUTE DESK IS TELLING THE TRUTH? HELL NO. HE NEVER TOOK THE TREATMENT, HE JUST WANTS US TO TAKE IT. Why would he lie? Well think about the man your dealing with. Do you really think a man with a narcissistc personality who is a sociopathalogical liar, vein, selfish, self centered, greedy, would risk his life on a drug that hasn't been fully tested. Or would it be less risky for him to just lie and say he took it.

From the nytimes: If hydroxychloroquine becomes an accepted treatment, several pharmaceutical companies stand to profit, including shareholders and senior executives with connections to the president. Mr. Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-malaria-drug.html

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
15. The flip side to megalomania is extreme paranoia
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:26 PM
May 2020

This guy is a walking DSM-IV.

His party is too hopelessly corrupt to remove him.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
18. So the Yale School of Medicine is part of "the deep state" which wants to make Trump look bad?
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:22 AM
May 2020

ChrisJansing
“So we no longer recommend hydroxychloroquine. In fact we have moved it from a possible drug to a not recommended drug.” Dr. Tom Balcezak, chief clinical officer for Yale-New Haven Health says of the drug the President is taking


Aussie105

(5,214 posts)
19. What a nice world it would be
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:22 AM
May 2020

if you could just say anything, and know to yourself that anything that contradicted what you said or thought, was just fake, or said by an enemy out to get you.

But people might think you are dim witted or delusional, and point that out, so most 5 year olds grow past that stage. Some adults though, can keep it up much longer.

Who thought this guy would make a good leader of the Free World? Oh yeah, a whole bunch of other delusional people.

Leith

(7,802 posts)
20. "Trump enemy"
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:32 AM
May 2020

That's chilling. I've got a funny feeling that he says that phrase quite often.

What's next? Reports that agent orange gets high, wanders around the WH, and talks to portraits of former presidents? This is assuming he knows who they are.

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