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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can't stress how much donald j trump sucks. What he just said about the VA & veterans...
makes me feel like my head is about to explode.
Link to tweet
Trump calls study on HCQ treatment for vets with Covid a phony study put out by the VA
(T)hey gave it to people that were ready to die everybody was old and had bad problems with hearts," diabetes
POTUS say researchers were obviously not friends of my administration
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I heard him say that but I didn't put two and two together until I was listening to Nicole Wallace and realized he was talking about our Veterans.
This makes my blood boil.
Wasn't there a little bit more of the quote, something like "They were very old, almost dead" or "practically dead." It was sickening. The full context makes it obscene.
pwb
(11,263 posts)Even he cant defend his lies.
Cha
(297,204 posts)fixed it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)He judges scientific research on the basis of whether or not it supports some bee he already had in his bonnet, and if it doesn't he accuses the researchers of political bias. That's the prism through which he sees everything - if you don't agree with him, no matter what the issue, you're a biased Democrat and your position is therefore worthless.
And he undercuts his own opinion about hydroxychloroquine with his cruel comments about veterans who died after taking it - if a person with a heart problem takes it, it might kill them. It (apparently) doesn't cause heart problems in people with perfectly healthy hearts but it exacerbates existing arrhythmias. So the older veterans with heart trouble "who were ready to die" (and therefore expendable, in His Lardship's mind) are exactly the people who should not have been given it, and Trump is admitting that it's a dangerous drug for some people. But anybody else who says that, like a doctor, is obviously not a friend of his administration. IMO, his administration doesn't deserve friends.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Humans don't react that way.
Humans have Souls, Hearts, things like that.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Neither is truth, decency, justice, the Constitution, me, etc......
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)to how sacred we as a country (used to) hold it: NATO, WHO, UN, the Presidency as an institution, our agencies. And the opposite is true too. The people and institutions we deride, like dictators, authoritarians, twisted regimes and techniques like torture, he has unlimited praise for.
Trump is uniquely effed up.