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Maru Kitteh

(28,333 posts)
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 10:49 PM Aug 2020

TRUMP DEAD.

Unfortunately, it is the wrong one.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/politics/robert-trump-dead/index.html

(CNN)Robert Trump, 72, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, died Saturday at a New York hospital, Donald Trump announced in a statement.

"It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace," the President said.


Donald Trump made a last minute decision to go to New York Friday to visit his brother as he headed to New Jersey for the weekend.
Robert Trump had been admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
Details of Robert Trump's illness have not been released. He had been sick for several months, a person familiar with knowledge of the matter told CNN.


Yeah. Donnie wrote that statement, and my neighbor's dog wrote War and Peace.

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TRUMP DEAD. (Original Post) Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 OP
Don't get my hopes up with thread titles like that! The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1
I KNOW RIGHT? I'm so disappointed. I mean, Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #3
I posted about that screw up to God. Haven't heard back from her. n/t rzemanfl Aug 2020 #2
She's busy calling her optometrist. Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #7
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #16
You made me laugh 12 hours later, which says something about my sleep patterns lately. n/t rzemanfl Aug 2020 #40
your dog wrote war and peace in russian? wow that's impressive :-) nt msongs Aug 2020 #4
It's the neighbor's dog. They're retired, Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #17
be damned dweller Aug 2020 #5
I always hit the golf course when my best friends are dying. nt Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #31
"Wrong Trump" is trending on Twitter WhiskeyWulf Aug 2020 #6
that is nice to hear SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #8
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #11
Hit the ball, drag Robert. Hit the ball, drag Robert. Patterson Aug 2020 #9
OK - that's a real LOL. Totally Tunsie Aug 2020 #25
No way tRump wrote that. Grammy23 Aug 2020 #10
Traitor Trump is the kind of guy that would pull the plug if he would get any inheritance. TheBlackAdder Aug 2020 #12
So chump's brother was on death bed while spanky golfed? SheltieLover Aug 2020 #13
You are correct. Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #18
With "best friends" like doll hands, who needs enemies? SheltieLover Aug 2020 #19
Well, he likely knew his brother was dying when he used him for the lawsuit to Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #29
Right! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #33
He forgot to end the statement with "Now watch this drive." GoCubsGo Aug 2020 #14
This is the brother he loved so much madaboutharry Aug 2020 #15
Yup! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #34
No way he wrote that statement nt doc03 Aug 2020 #20
Of course not! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #35
I don't understand why the cause of death is secret unless it is Under The Radar Aug 2020 #21
uh huh. Thought the same. Maru Kitteh Aug 2020 #32
Yup SheltieLover Aug 2020 #36
How very dare you tease me in this way Loryn Aug 2020 #22
How to tell the statement was not prepared by Fat Donnie: LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2020 #23
Also, can you honestly imagine Trump saying "...we will meet again." smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #30
He was younger and seemed in better physical than Trump yet he is dead but Trump keeps on living JI7 Aug 2020 #24
Robert died to make Chump look bad. Totally Tunsie Aug 2020 #26
It is what it is Johnny2X2X Aug 2020 #27
Why couldn't we have been so lucky to have it have been the other one!! Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #28
Indeed - wrong brother malaise Aug 2020 #37
Indeed, wrong one. North Shore Chicago Aug 2020 #38
Somebody wrote that for him. He doesn't love anyone except himself. NurseJackie Aug 2020 #39

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
10. No way tRump wrote that.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:01 PM
Aug 2020

First, it has some punctuation and isn’t laced with all caps.

Second, it exhibits a show of normal feelings of grief. The man is devoid of feelings except rage/anger. Normally, he’d be mad at his brother for taking the attention away from him. Imagine the nerve of that guy to die and divert our eyes to someone else.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
19. With "best friends" like doll hands, who needs enemies?
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:20 PM
Aug 2020

Guessing don the con was jealous of his bro because bro was a bit taller. 🤣

Ty for confirming, btw.

Maru Kitteh

(28,333 posts)
29. Well, he likely knew his brother was dying when he used him for the lawsuit to
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 12:02 AM
Aug 2020

try and stop Mary's book. Lawsuit flopped, so what use did he have for Robert? None. Sitting by your dying brother's bed? BORING. Much more satisfying and fun to go play some rounds with a line of chumps just salivating, waiting to tell him how clever and exactly right he always is.


madaboutharry

(40,203 posts)
15. This is the brother he loved so much
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:06 PM
Aug 2020

and was such a best friend that when Fred Trump had Alzheimer’s Disease, Donald Trump tried to get Fred to change his will, cut all the siblings out, and leave everything to Donald.

This sad story is in Mary Trump’s book.


SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
35. Of course not!
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 05:40 AM
Aug 2020

He is functionally illiterate and completely lacking empathy, the latter consistent with his personality disorder.

Under The Radar

(3,401 posts)
21. I don't understand why the cause of death is secret unless it is
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:29 PM
Aug 2020

...it is Covid 19 related causes which would really be embarrassing to the president.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
36. Yup
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 05:41 AM
Aug 2020

Same thought here!

And a really nasty case of it, as he was hospitalized in ICU for about a week previously.

23. How to tell the statement was not prepared by Fat Donnie:
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:40 PM
Aug 2020

There is no mention of how Robert had predicted his brother would one day be one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- presidents.

There is no mention of how much Robert admired his brother.

He doesn't offer sympathy to Robert's wife, Ann Marie Pallan.

He doesn't call Robert a cute name, like "Dumbo-Bob."

Here's what Mary Trump wrote in her book about the relationship between the two brothers:

“Donald had discovered early on how easy it was to get under Robert’s pale skin and push him past his limits; it was a game he never tired of playing,” Mary Trump wrote. “Nobody else would have bothered — Robert was so skinny and quiet that there was no sport in tormenting him.”

Robert's lucky that his hospital was located between the WH and the golf club, so Trump could drop by enroute the the country club mini-rally and say goodbye.

Of course, knowing Trump that last statement could be a lie to make himself look good.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
30. Also, can you honestly imagine Trump saying "...we will meet again."
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 12:09 AM
Aug 2020

I really can't. Trump thinks of himself as immortal and would never say something like that.

Of course, when I read that line, all I could think of was "Hopefully soon!"

JI7

(89,244 posts)
24. He was younger and seemed in better physical than Trump yet he is dead but Trump keeps on living
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:45 PM
Aug 2020

and destroying and killing other lives.

malaise

(268,885 posts)
37. Indeed - wrong brother
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 06:06 AM
Aug 2020

but we knew he was dying because the Con showed up. He couldn't handle the press after what Mary said about Fred dying alone.

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