"I could be one of the diers" - Donald Trump

[My Pet Orangutan]

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event

Donald Trump was on the phone, and he was talking about dying. It was Saturday, October 3, and while his doctor had told the outside world that the president’s symptoms were nothing to worry about, Trump, cocooned in his suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was telling those close to him something very different.

“I could be one of the diers,” he said.

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Nine months into the pandemic and one month away from Election Day, the president considered for the first time that the disease killing him in the polls, threatening his political future, might just kill him, too. On the phone he remarked sarcastically, “This change of scenery has been great.”

He asked for an update on who else in his circle had contracted the virus, though he expressed no regret, no indication that he understood his own decisions could have led to the infections. Unable to process the irony of his own misfortune, he tried his best to find the Trumpiest spin. Looked at one way, he was having the greatest and most important illness of all time. He had the best care in the world, and he raved about the virtues of the drugs the doctors had him on, including dexamethasone, a steroid pumping up his lungs that can induce euphoria. He was awed by the wonders of modern medicine. He said he was feeling really good, and it didn’t sound like he was lying. Then he admitted something scary. That how he felt might not mean much in the end.

“This thing could go either way. It’s tricky. They told me it’s tricky,” the president said. “You can tell it can go either way.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/donald-trump-covid-19-white-house.html

[CrispyQ]

1. My fingers are still crossed. -nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. "You can tell it can go either way". Yeah, don't fear it, you Maggot.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Moron. He's not doing himself any favors w/ anyone else in this Country, that's for sure.

A selfish, vainglorious man, one whom I think many in this Country will be very glad to see off the world stage soon.