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Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 07:58 AM Sep 2023

Trump Refused to Wear Masks Because They Smudged His Bronzer

Appears a million Americans lost their lives to a demented idiot’s vanity. “Bronzer.”



Trump Refused to Wear Masks Because They Smudged His Makeup, Ex-Aide Says

Adam Chitwood
The Wrap, September 22, 2023

Donald Trump was rarely photographed wearing a mask during his presidency as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to a standstill, but a former White House aide says his reason had less to do with the virus and more to do with vanity.

In her memoir “Enough,” Cassidy Hutchinson, the close aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, recalls an incident in which Trump noticed his makeup had been smudged from wearing a N-95 mask.

“I slowly shook my head,” she writes of her reaction to Trump choosing a white mask, per an account from The Guardian ahead of the book’s release next week. “The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.

“I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer,” she says in the book.

“Why did no one else tell me that,” he snapped. “I’m not wearing this thing.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-refused-wear-masks-because-142643012.html

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Trump Refused to Wear Masks Because They Smudged His Bronzer (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 OP
Vain creep. TSExile Sep 2023 #1
Traitor, too. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #3
That bronzer makes him look like his liver is failing. nt leftyladyfrommo Sep 2023 #2
Lily livered liver failure. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #4
Not surprising...I remember many of us here surmised that at the time Docreed2003 Sep 2023 #5
Trump and Meadows joked about Covid on plane after Biden debate, book says Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #7
This is precisely one of the many reasons why,... magicarpet Sep 2023 #6
Criminal Dereliction of Duty Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #8
Additional pressure for Orange Idiot from judge: northoftheborder Sep 2023 #9
The First Inmate Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #17
And can you believe the "manly" "MAGA-men" who flaunt their guns and pickup trucks... Blue Owl Sep 2023 #10
Some people never really develop their critical faculties, including self-reflection. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #18
TFG is a disgusting excuse for a human being LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #11
Trump and Meadows joked about Covid on plane after Biden debate, book says Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #19
All these former insiders know a lot more than gets coverage in prime time. outlets are most wiggs Sep 2023 #12
Dip's a menace to law abiding people and to those who aren't so much. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #21
Bronzer in chief LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #13
40 Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Could Have Been Averted If It Weren't for Trump: Report Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #22
What a disgusting, vain little man Stinky The Clown Sep 2023 #14
Who knew? Besides Putin. Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #23
This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #15
Trump wouldn't wear a mask because... LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #16
That picture Johnny2X2X Sep 2023 #20

Docreed2003

(18,709 posts)
5. Not surprising...I remember many of us here surmised that at the time
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 08:37 AM
Sep 2023

What's tragic is that his vanity led to more people outright refusing to wear masks and needless spread of the disease. We're STILL dealing with the consequences of the politicization of the pandemic.

Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
7. Trump and Meadows joked about Covid on plane after Biden debate, book says
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 09:55 AM
Sep 2023

Martin Pengelly in Washington
The Guardian, September 20, 2023

Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the first debate with Joe Biden in 2020 – an event at which Trump was not tested but three days before which, Meadows later confessed, Trump had indeed tested positive.

On the flight, on 29 September 2020, Trump speculated about his health, saying he thought his voice had sounded “a little bit off” at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. But he also said he did not want the media to “accuse me of something ridiculous, like having Covid”.

Meadows “laughed and promised him that we would handle it if it happened”.

“We” referred to Meadows and Cassidy Hutchinson, the chief of staff’s closest aide who has now written a memoir, Enough. The book, which describes Hutchinson’s journey from Trump loyalist to key witness in the January 6 inquiry, will be published in the US next Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy.

In December 2021, the Guardian obtained a copy of Meadows’s own memoir, The Chief’s Chief. In that book, Meadows revealed that Trump tested positive for Covid three days before debating Biden but disregarded the test after another came back negative and then, despite showing worsening symptoms, carried out public events including the debate and a reception for bereaved military families.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-meadows-joked-covid-plane-125209584.html

Murderous bastards, those two, as well as traitors.

magicarpet

(18,457 posts)
6. This is precisely one of the many reasons why,...
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 09:00 AM
Sep 2023

.... you do not put a narrow minded narcissist in charge of the most powerful country of the free world.

For the duration of his Presidency he fucked up the Covid pandemic from beginning to end. The final result of his utter incompetence and absolute buffoonery was a 1,000,000 lost souls death count.

All out of concern for his personal vanities and to protect his re-election prospects he down played the actual dangers of the snowballing pandemic that was increasingly beyond his desire to effectively control.

It remains incomprehensible and totally astounding how this idiot was ever selected for the Office of the Presidency and was given the reins of our government to do with what he may.

This is not the first time said,..

Everything the Orange Menace touches turns into shit,... how does such a large segment of the American population not get this reality through their thick as a granite cobblestone skulls ?

Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
8. Criminal Dereliction of Duty
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 10:06 AM
Sep 2023

“We're not going to control the pandemic .” — Mark Meadows



Trump calls coronavirus Democrats' 'new hoax'

“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump said at a rally on Friday.


NBC News, Feb. 28, 2020
By Lauren Egan

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “politicizing” the deadly coronavirus during a campaign rally here on Friday, claiming that the outbreak is “their new hoax” as he continued to downplay the risk in the U.S.

“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump said. “They have no clue, they can't even count their votes in Iowa.”

“This is their new hoax,” Trump continued, adding that attacking the White House’s response to the coronavirus had become the Democratic Party’s “single talking point.”

Trump has weaponized the word “hoax” throughout his presidency, using it to belittle and discredit former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference as well as his impeachment trial. He also has a long history of distrusting experts, most notably his own intelligence community and government scientists.

“Democrats will always say horrible things," Trump said. "Democrats want us to fail so badly.”

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-coronavirus-democrats-new-hoax-n1145721

Two big reasons dip became pee-resident were the active measures cough bigly help he got from Russia - both from Putin and their employees at FBI.

northoftheborder

(7,633 posts)
9. Additional pressure for Orange Idiot from judge:
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 10:36 AM
Sep 2023

Threaten to wash his face in addition to cutting his hair

Blue Owl

(58,183 posts)
10. And can you believe the "manly" "MAGA-men" who flaunt their guns and pickup trucks...
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 11:40 AM
Sep 2023

Think this make-up wearing, poofy hair-styled fancy boy is worthy of idolizing???? I don't get it and never will understand....

Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
18. Some people never really develop their critical faculties, including self-reflection.
Mon Sep 25, 2023, 10:35 AM
Sep 2023

Blue Owl, will they ever be surprised!





Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
19. Trump and Meadows joked about Covid on plane after Biden debate, book says
Mon Sep 25, 2023, 10:39 AM
Sep 2023

Martin Pengelly in Washington
The Guardian, September 20, 2023

Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the first debate with Joe Biden in 2020 – an event at which Trump was not tested but three days before which, Meadows later confessed, Trump had indeed tested positive.

On the flight, on 29 September 2020, Trump speculated about his health, saying he thought his voice had sounded “a little bit off” at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. But he also said he did not want the media to “accuse me of something ridiculous, like having Covid”.

Meadows “laughed and promised him that we would handle it if it happened”.

“We” referred to Meadows and Cassidy Hutchinson, the chief of staff’s closest aide who has now written a memoir, Enough. The book, which describes Hutchinson’s journey from Trump loyalist to key witness in the January 6 inquiry, will be published in the US next Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy.

In December 2021, the Guardian obtained a copy of Meadows’s own memoir, The Chief’s Chief. In that book, Meadows revealed that Trump tested positive for Covid three days before debating Biden but disregarded the test after another came back negative and then, despite showing worsening symptoms, carried out public events including the debate and a reception for bereaved military families.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-meadows-joked-covid-plane-125209584.html

Murderous Dip's been treated with kid gloves his whole lousy miserable life. He should be facing charges for attempted murder. Get him off the street and in prison where he belongs.

wiggs

(8,688 posts)
12. All these former insiders know a lot more than gets coverage in prime time. outlets are most
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 12:58 PM
Sep 2023

interested in the 'under the blazer' feel that Giuliani copped.

These folks, including Cohen, could be a lot more helpful in exposing the danger that Trump and Trumpism represents. They saw the small, limited man on display for years, up close.

Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
21. Dip's a menace to law abiding people and to those who aren't so much.
Mon Sep 25, 2023, 03:51 PM
Sep 2023

The late billionaire and sexual blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, who said shortly before he was suicided that he introduced the former first couple, broke his friendship with Trump because he thought the guy was "dishonest."



Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida. Davidoff Studios/Getty Images

Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump 'when he realized Trump was a crook,' according to his brother

* Jeffrey Epstein hinted at his fallout with Donald Trump in an unaired interview, according to his brother.

* "He stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook," Mark Epstein told Insider.

* Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for years, and the nature of their fallout remains hazy.


Jacob Shamsian
Business Insider, March 11, 2023

Jeffrey Epstein said in an unaired interview that he distanced himself from former President Donald Trump after realizing Trump was "a crook," according to his brother, Mark Epstein.

Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump's former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.

At the time, Bannon was conducting filmed interviews with the now-dead pedophile financier. Bannon sent Jeffrey Epstein a Dropbox link to a clip, which he forwarded to his brother. The link is no longer active, according to Mark.

"Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews," Mark Epstein said. "And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook."

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-dropped-donald-trump-realizing-crook-brother-says-2023-3

Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
22. 40 Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Could Have Been Averted If It Weren't for Trump: Report
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 08:43 AM
Sep 2023


40 Percent of U.S. COVID Deaths Could Have Been Averted If It Weren't for Trump: Report

JASON LEMON
Newsweek, 2/11/21

A new report highlights the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. under former President Donald Trump, noting that some 40 percent of COVID-19 pandemic deaths in 2020 would have been averted if America's mortality rate was equivalent to other wealthy peer nations.

The report—published Thursday in one of the world's oldest and best-known medical journals The Lancet—explains that even before the pandemic, the U.S. saw 461,000 unnecessary deaths in 2018 when compared to the death rates in other G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom). Comparing the U.S. COVID-19 mortality rate to this peer group, the U.S. would have seen 40 percent fewer deaths in 2020 if its mortality rate was comparable.

"The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on the USA, with more than 26 million diagnosed cases and over 450000 deaths as of early February, 2021, about 40% of which could have been averted had the U.S. death rate mirrored the weighted average of the other G7 nations," the report explains.

"Many of the cases and deaths were avoidable. Instead of galvanizing the US populace to fight the pandemic, President Trump publicly dismissed its threat (despite privately acknowledging it), discouraged action as infection spread, and eschewed international cooperation," it continues.

Continues...

https://www.newsweek.com/40-percent-us-covid-deaths-could-have-been-averted-if-it-werent-trump-report-1568403
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Phony outside. Genocidal inside.

Kid Berwyn

(23,071 posts)
23. Who knew? Besides Putin.
Tue Sep 26, 2023, 08:46 AM
Sep 2023

President Trump gestures to Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak (photo right), as he speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (photo left) in the Oval Office on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Alexander Shcherbak/TASS/Getty Images)

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to The Times. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.”



"I'm not under investigation," he added.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/10/527755991/trump-meets-with-russias-lavrov-at-the-white-house-today

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nut-job-james-comey-russia-2017-5

Johnny2X2X

(23,695 posts)
20. That picture
Mon Sep 25, 2023, 11:03 AM
Sep 2023

Some time in the future, generations are going to look at this clownish picture and wonder what the hell was wrong with the country that this clown would be picked to lead.

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