A medical doctor's response to the "King of Israel"

[Mrs. Overall]

Link to tweet

Eugene Gu, MD
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@eugenegu
We learn in med school that if someone comes to the emergency room calling themselves the King of Israel and the second coming of God, that patient is either high on drugs or is having a psychotic break and needs to be promptly evaluated with a tox screen and psychiatric consult.


In reference to Trump's tweet this morning in which he quotes an evangelical referring to him (Trump) as the King of Israel and the second coming of God, among other lofty phrases.

[guillaumeb]

1. I choose option 2. eom

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Can't a medical doctor call in a 5150?

[guillaumeb]

42. Who will tell the Emperor that he has no clothing?

Not those who profit from his policies.

[malaise]

2. This is way past that scenario

Don the Con is a fucking raving lunatic

[Larrybanal]

14. yep....trump needs a straight jacket

and we need a congress with a spine that gives a crap

[pangaia]

32. We need REPUBLICANS in Congress with a spine !!!

[sandensea]

51. You'd have better luck finding one with a heart

Plenty with illegally-lined wallets though.

[stevesinpa]

61. many have spines,

it takes guts to be that corrupt. what we need are republicans in congress with ethics and morals, and actually to care more about our nation than their career or party.

[pangaia]

62. good analysis better than mine...

[smirkymonkey]

38. Found this meme on twitter and thought it was hilarious.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECgaNt3XsAIevzK?format=jpg&name=small

Couldn't figure out how to upload the image, so just had to paste the link.

[malaise]

39. Ha

Good one

[burrowowl]

60. Yes a very good one!

[triron]

46. Somebody needs to take some pretty dramatic steps to protect our nation and world.

[malaise]

48. They'd better

This has to stop

[Captain Zero]

3. He sounds like someone who hasn't slept either,

In AT LEAST 3-4 days.

[lastlib]

4. When I went that long without sleep, the hallucinations were pretty damn vivid.

At least I realized that they were hallucinations! AnusMouth doesn't, and he has a nuclear button.

[triron]

47. See my post above.

[mtngirl47]

5. I can't even go to LUNCH without this bozo doing or saying something insane!

Just googled the "King of Israel" thing.....FFS....I don't even tweet but here you go:

#25thAmendment

[JoeOtterbein]

16. +1000!

Bingo!

[Scurrilous]

6. ...

[GusBob]

7. What was the first coming of God?

And how did that all work out?

Lets ask Barabbas

[Collimator]

9. As a former Bible-believer. . .

. . .Who has since learned to question the text, I would like to point out that "Abba" was the Aramaic version of "Daddy". The word, "Bar", we know from "Bar Mitzvah" means "son".

Therefore the name, "Barabbas" is the general equivalent of "Son of the Father." I don't mean to get into an in-depth study of Biblical scholarship here, but when Barabbas was let go--according to the story--one "Son of the Father" was released while another man claiming to be the "Son of the Father" was not.

This is just a small sample of how jumbled up the story is when examined critically.

[Ilsa]

23. That is very interesting.

I had not heard that in all my decades of churching.

[Dave Starsky]

34. Nor had I, and I try to keep up on these things.

But that makes complete sense.

Mind = Blown

[patphil]

25. Constantine put his personal touch on the new testament

when he seized control of the religion Jesus started.
Up to that point it was called the Church of the Desposnyi, and it was run by Jesus' relatives and their descendants.
Constantine rebranded the church as the ROMAN Catholic Church. Catholic meaning universal. He also modified the doctrine to suit him.
He knew the Roman Empire would eventually fall, and he wanted to create a center of power and wealth that would be independent of government.
So, a lot of what we see in the Catholic and Christian Churches today is based on Constantine and not Jesus.
As the church evolved into a great power center, the original message of Jesus became less and less relevant to the needs of those who ran the church.
The same thing happened to Buddhism many centuries earlier when King Ashoka rebranded the teachings of Buddha and modified them to suit his needs.
I think that's where Constantine got the idea.

Essentially what we had was a Satanic takeover of two great spiritual movements that transformed them into religious movements that were more concerned with the wants and needs of the ones who controlled the religions than the spiritual needs of the people who followed them.
And now we have religious types proclaiming another Satan, Donald Trump, as God.
For Devils, and Demons, that is their truth.
But then they are driven by fear, anger, hatred, and violence so Trump looks good to them.
That man has no love in his heart.

Patrick Phillips

[Collimator]

29. I understand that Buddha. . .

. . .Was reputed to have walked on water some 400 years before the time of Christ.

[patphil]

50. It's really not that hard, eskimo's do it all the time.:-)

[Collimator]

55. Brilliant!

You know, I continually misquote a Buddhist dictum by saying: "If you want to understand life-- chop water, carry wood."

Of course, the saying is ". . . chop wood, carry water." But then I laugh at my mistake and joke that my misquote is the eskimo version.

[marybourg]

8. Doesn't even take med school.

The person declaring those things, in a long white robe, beard and carrying a sign, was a stock character, denoting crazy, in cartoons as long as I can remember.

[calimary]

10. Well he was just blabbering on to reporters when he raised his hands slightly upward,

looked upward as though to the heavens, and declared “I am the chosen one.”

He was talking about China. But that phrase is key. That phrase is loaded. That phrase is telltale.

[Mrs. Overall]

11. Yes. Absolutely key, loaded, and telltale.

[Fozzledick]

44. Actually, being "The Chosen One" to defeat China sounds to me like Falun Gong rhetoric.

I think he's desperate to take messianic flattery from anyone who'll offer it.

[duforsure]

12. He does outlandish things like this

When he finds out something really bad is about to happen exposing him. We've seen this many times already. More Putin ties, more corruption and lies, more proof he's gotten us into a recession? Or could it be ties to Epstein, Putin, and Barr about his death? Or is this all just an act to use a insanity plea? Whatever it is about to come out it's got him desperate, and panicking now.

[Dave Starsky]

36. No, he doesn't. He's just a fountain of craziness.

Every single thing he says and does is nuts. There's no timing to any of it. He is a 24/7 lunatic shit show.

To convince me that this is all planned by him, you would have to point out times (any time) when he seemed reasonable and cogent. You can't do that.

[malaise]

40. Fountain?

More like the world's most powerful waterfall

[UTUSN]

13. K&R

[gibraltar72]

15. 72 hour hold.

[LuckyLib]

17. Or as my grandmother used to say "Crazy as a March hare."

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

20. Mine used to say nuttier than a fruitcake

[Heartstrings]

57. Mine said "has a screw lose" or "elevator doesn't go to the top floor"......

[Scurrilous]

18. ...

[yardwork]

19. And Trump's "I am the chosen one" on the WH lawn this am.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. Crazy as a loon.

Trump is insane.

[The Wizard]

22. He's a fucking nut.

[Newest Reality]

26. Yes,

and the only, obvious nutcase we know of that has access to an arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Is the entire country going to enable that? That's what enabling is. With no intervention, this could be a real crap shoot even though I used the weapons in a hyperbolic way...or did I?

[Collimator]

24. "Second Coming of God" is interesting phrasing.

When paired with the claim that "Israelis love him."

The Jewish segment of Israel would not accept that
God ever came down the first time in the form of a guy named Jesus.

[Javaman]

27. in the old days, when someone lost their marbles...

we used to say, "poor slob, he thinks he's Napoleon"...

[TeamPooka]

28. We are now the "5150" United States of America.

[dem4decades]

30. Obviously a fake Doctor and fake medical school.

[LiberalFighter]

33. If he is the King of Israel and the second coming of God...

1) Why is he President of the USA when he should be in Israel?

2) Maybe his Jewish supporters should arrange to have him crucified.

[MoonRiver]

35. Or someone with dementia experiencing hallucinations.

[Blue Owl]

37. Reminds me of a hiring manager's response to weeping about liking beer during an interview

n/t

[Chemisse]

41. Where does he go from here?

A daily roundtable of flatterers and small crowds of rallying fans just aren't enough for Trump anymore. Now he has to think himself the Second Coming.

[athenasatanjesus]

43. Did Trump just say what the Antichrist is supposed to say? nt

[orleans]

45. alas, trump was just quoting what that guy

had written. granted, bizarre as hell to quote it. i showed my daughter the tweets. i said he's gonna start believing this. *this* is what i've been so afraid of--because if he believes shit like that, he'll do anything...
my daughter nodded, "i know"


and later today...

"I AM THE CHOSEN ONE" as he spreads his arms and looks up at the sky

(you could almost hear those evangelical supporters singing aaah aaah aaah in a heavenly choir!)

[colsohlibgal]

49. He Is Clinically Insane

And getting weirder and crazier almost daily. He is a risk to us and our Allies and I blame McConnell and the Senate republicans for prolonging his time in Office.

If we beat him in 2020 he should wind up in Jail or a Mental Facility....after he is dragged out of the White House.

[Eliot Rosewater]

52. 45 million Americans are on pins and needles breathlessly waiting for rump to just

order the army and national guard to start wiping us all out.

they cant wait

[ecstatic]

53. True, and with that, I

think I'm done for the night. No point in me getting worked up and furious about why nothing is being done to remove that clown from the White House. I'm exhausted. Truly.

[The Blue Flower]

54. So where does the Chosen One, the King of Israel, go from here?

How does he top that? What will he do to drive the crazy even farther? He's proven he has the power of life and death over the most vulnerable among us--immigrants and their children. I believe he now will have to prove his power over the rest of us.

[leftstreet]

56. A 72 hour hold in a psychiatric institution n/t

[klook]

58. "How do you know you're God?"

“Simple. When I pray to him, I find I am talking to myself.”


(The Ruling Class, Peter O’Toole)

Actually, Trump is more like the “after” version of the O’Toole character “Jack” — a ruthless, respectable psycho-killer.

[MyMission]

59. A poor misguided soul

No. Not frump, he's just mean and crazy

But a coworker who is 70, an evangelical (repuglican) and a former social worker who does have a degree of compassion and some familiarity with mental illness.

So as she was leaving early for church, I read her the quote you posted from the doctor, asking if she agreed. She did. Then I continued...in reference to trumps tweet ..and she said "enough"
She knew I got her with that one!

We generally don't discuss politics because of our opposing views But I couldn't stop myself because I knew she'd agree with the statement and I wanted to give her food for thought (as she headed off to church!) She knows I think she's a good person but a poor misguided soul, misguided by her church; and that if I wasn't Jewish, I'd think 45 was the antichrist!

Thanks for this post! I had some fun from it.