Current Events > Trump growing increasingly worried over the optics of him catching Covid-19

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-protocols/index.html

Guy's straight up lying to Americans but is apparently scared shitless about it behind closed doors.

Incredible.
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Imagine believing that lolol

Trump appeared genuinely alarmed when people close to him contracted the disease, seeing in their experiences a fate he was adamantly working to avoid for himself. He raised repeatedly his friend Stanley Chera, a New York real estate developer who Trump had been friends with for decades. Trump described his surprise at Chera's descent from contracting the virus to entering a coma to eventually succumbing to the disease.

Later, Trump was surprised again to learn that one of his closest foreign allies, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, had fallen seriously ill from the virus, at one point being admitted to an intensive care unit in London. Trump asked for frequent updates on Johnson's deteriorating condition and later asked to speak with him as soon as he was on his way to recovery.

Trump, who has long defined himself as a germaphobe, openly chastised aides who coughed or sneezed in his presence even before the virus. But amid the pandemic, any signs of respiratory sickness have been met with glares from the President. When Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, told a briefing she'd had a fever and self-quarantined, Trump jokingly backed away.

When Polish President Andrzej Duda, Trump's first foreign visitor in months, came to the White House this week, he and his entire delegation were administered coronavirus tests, as were the US officials who participated in the meeting.

For months, anyone who comes into close proximity with the President has been administrated a coronavirus test, though the Abbott Laboratories product used by the White House has raised concerns for high rates of false negatives.

Trump, who in the 1980s and '90s openly discussed his success in avoiding a sexually transmitted disease -- "It's Vietnam," he told Howard Stern, "It is very dangerous. So I'm very, very careful" -- also took the controversial step of taking a round of hydroxychloroquine in a bid to prevent coronavirus.

Though the drug has not been proven to prevent infection with coronavirus, Trump had publicly touted its benefits and he announced midway through his round that he was taking it. Later, his doctor said Trump's medical team used an electrocardiogram to closely monitor the President's heart while he was taking the drug since some studies have suggested it could cause severe heart problems.

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VVALLBOUNCE posted...

Imagine believing that lolol

Not hard to believe with that clown lol

I want him to be terrified

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