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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,946 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:04 PM May 2020

Pelosi says she gave Trump 'dose of his own medicine' with weight comments

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she was giving President Donald Trump “a dose of his own medicine” when she described him as “morbidly obese” in a television interview earlier this week.

“I didn’t say anything about the president. I gave him a dose of his own medicine,” Pelosi told reporters in her weekly press conference when asked about her dig at Trump’s weight. “I was only quoting what doctors had said about him and I was being factual in a very sympathetic way.”

Pelosi made the comments in a Monday interview with CNN as she blasted Trump’s decision to take hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, in an attempt to ward off coronavirus. The drug, which the president has relentlessly promoted as a coronavirus remedy, has not been proven to have any effect on stemming the spread of the virus.

Pelosi said Monday that it was “not a good idea” to take the controversial drug because it can pose a risk for people with heart conditions and he is "morbidly obese.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-says-she-gave-trump-dose-of-his-own-medicine-with-weight-comments/ar-BB14n9en?li=BBnbfcL

I agree.

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Pelosi says she gave Trump 'dose of his own medicine' with weight comments (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
And he deserved it. louis-t May 2020 #1
Speaker Pelosi will be on Lawrence tonight n/t malaise May 2020 #2
Damn straight.. and trump is Morbid no Cha May 2020 #3
Bless his morbidly obese heart MaryMagdaline May 2020 #4
again? media is creating false equivalencies AlexSFCA May 2020 #5
And Trump reacted predictably gratuitous May 2020 #6
UHhhhh??? msn??????Today is Wed. Tomorrow is Thursday. Proofreaders asleep? niyad May 2020 #7

louis-t

(23,292 posts)
1. And he deserved it.
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:18 PM
May 2020

He spends his day spewing nasty nicknames for people. And by the way, 'morbidly obese' is a medical term, a classification.

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
5. again? media is creating false equivalencies
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:32 PM
May 2020

this should not even be in the news! It’s entertainment, fake news if it gets repeated by other networks. Trump says way way worse things and openly lies, she has references to back up her comment. Morbidly obese, in acute mental decline, etc. those are real doctors observations.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. And Trump reacted predictably
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:35 PM
May 2020

I don't know why the reporters at Speaker Pelosi's press conference didn't see the obvious parallels.

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