Trump Has COVID megathread (update 10/24: 2 Pence staffers test positive)

[Inmate Trump]

How is this a smart move, politically or otherwise? These people are f**king insane, man.

https://twitter.com/sppeoples/status/1313215019304222725

Republicans and their voters are going to kill us all.

I've been reluctant to declare Trump a worse president than James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson, but he's really making it difficult.

He is.  He's going to go down as the absolute worst president in American history.  Future generations will study this time period in utter horror and disbelief.  Their grandparents who supported Trump will face lots of questions, being on the wrong side of history.

[ugabug]

How is this a smart move, politically or otherwise? These people are f**king insane, man.

https://twitter.com/sppeoples/status/1313215019304222725

That's how i've been for most of his Presidency, but this past month has been enough to finally make me consider him the worst, even over Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.

Republicans and their voters are going to kill us all.

I've been reluctant to declare Trump a worse president than James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson, but he's really making it difficult.

[It’s so Joever]

How is this a smart move, politically or otherwise? These people are f**king insane, man.

https://twitter.com/sppeoples/status/1313215019304222725

Republicans and their voters are going to kill us all.

I've been reluctant to declare Trump a worse president than James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson, but he's really making it difficult.

He is.  He's going to go down as the absolute worst president in American history.  Future generations will study this time period in utter horror and disbelief.  Their grandparents who supported Trump will face lots of questions, being on the wrong side of history.

Doubtful, some will lie and proclaim their strong support for the resistance. The rest will be dead because they are already old.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Conservative logic:

I'm going to arm myself to the teeth and open-carry an AR-15 at all times on the offchance that some Uppity Black breaks into my house in the middle of the night to rape my blonde daughters and steal my flatscreen TV.

I'm going to bomb multiple Middle Eastern countries and give intelligence services carte blanche to spy on everyone in case a Radical Islamic Terrorist tries to blow something up.

A respiratory virus that can cause incredible pain, disability and death is going around but rather than wear a mask and avoid crowded rooms, I'm just gonna go with it.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313216446714048512

[It’s so Joever]

Conservative logic:

I'm going to arm myself to the teeth and open-carry an AR-15 at all times on the offchance that some Uppity Black breaks into my house in the middle of the night to rape my blonde daughters and steal my flatscreen TV.

I'm going to bomb multiple Middle Eastern countries and give intelligence services carte blanche to spy on everyone in case a Radical Islamic Terrorist tries to blow something up.

A respiratory virus that can cause incredible pain, disability and death is going around but rather than wear a mask and avoid crowded rooms, I'm just gonna go with it.

Interestingly, my gun-loving, Trump-bootlicking, libruhl-hating uncle in rural VA has been apparently taking this virus extremely seriously.
He doesn’t allow his kids to leave the property and they always are wearing N-95 masks when out (which is rare) even when in another family member’s house.
I am very interested to learn how his love of Trump can coexist with the current stupidity of the White House.

[Inmate Trump]

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313216446714048512

Unacceptable.

Unsafe.

Un-American.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313216446714048512

I'm starting to come around to the conspiracy theory that the Trump admin is doing their best to infect Biden with COVID-19.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

I’m somewhat doubtful of him being able to debate. The Trump campaign can say all they want, but a week and a half is a long time in Covid-time. Let’s see how he feels (and tests) in a week.

[It’s so Joever]

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313216446714048512

Unacceptable.

Unsafe.

Un-American.

Biden better use this against Trump, and obviously better not participate in the debate.
He should call for a rescheduling and remind the audience Trump is willing to infect civilians for political gain.

Of course, that’s if Trump isn’t on a ventilator.

[Splash]

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313216446714048512

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is making fun of Kamala Harris for insisting on a plexiglass divider for the VP debate despite the fact that Pence has come into contact with multiple individuals who have tested positive for coronavirus over the past week.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Just happened to catch that Biden +15 poll from CNN. At this rate, the Republicans' best hope for still winning the election may be Trump dying and Pence receiving a "sympathy bump" that narrowly carries him over the threshold.

Donald Trump is essenitally the character of Howard Beale from the movie Network now - an unhinged and controverisal figure who originally is an unexpected success due to his nuttiness, but who eventually jumps the shark and increasingly becomes a liability who drags his network down with him. And it seems like we're quickly approaching the 120th minute of the film.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

I’m somewhat doubtful of him being able to debate. The Trump campaign can say all they want, but a week and a half is a long time in Covid-time. Let’s see how he feels (and tests) in a week.

https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313220686731776000

[GoTfan]

My friend in Melbourne will never get to see her father again, and this orange f**kstick says not to be afraid of the virus?

To paraphrase the words of Joseph N. Welch, until this moment, Mr President, I don't think I had ever fully gauged your cruelty or recklessness. Have you no sense of decency sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

F**k it. I'm all in now. Biden/Harris 2020.

[VBM]

Yes, I am sure today's developments are going to help Trump politically. s/

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1313208099050860553

My main takeaway is that 33% of Americans will say literally anything as long as it makes Trump look good

[compucomp]

Even beyond the obvious reckless and tone-deaf nature of his new "I caught COVID and it's not that bad" message, I think it's awful for him electorally, even if he really does recover without further complications. The message might get sympathy among the 18-40 age group (for them you could reasonably say it's true), but this will not sway their vote. But the 65+ age group most certainly will hate this message with a passion and it will sway their votes. Old people hate more than anything when people even mention, much less mock, their mortality, which Trump is doing here.  

[Holmes]

The message might get sympathy among the 18-40 age group (for them you could reasonably say it's true), but this will not sway their vote.

Nothing Trump says will get him sympathy from the age group that hates him the most.

[Xing]

If Trump actually wins despite all of this, there's no saving this country.

[Buzz]

There was never going to be a damn sympathy bump for a guy that downplayed the virus for the past 6 months.  Stop arguing over stupid ****!!!!!!!!!

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Even beyond the obvious reckless and tone-deaf nature of his new "I caught COVID and it's not that bad" message, I think it's awful for him electorally, even if he really does recover without further complications. The message might get sympathy among the 18-40 age group (for them you could reasonably say it's true), but this will not sway their vote. But the 65+ age group most certainly will hate this message with a passion and it will sway their votes. Old people hate more than anything when people even mention, much less mock, their mortality, which Trump is doing here.

I don't know if you noticed, but there's no age group that hates & distrusts him more than the under 40 group.

They care as much about COVID & social distancing as any other age group. This won't get him anything but anger & possibly increased turnout for Biden

[Splash]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313243541959737349

[compucomp]

Even beyond the obvious reckless and tone-deaf nature of his new "I caught COVID and it's not that bad" message, I think it's awful for him electorally, even if he really does recover without further complications. The message might get sympathy among the 18-40 age group (for them you could reasonably say it's true), but this will not sway their vote. But the 65+ age group most certainly will hate this message with a passion and it will sway their votes. Old people hate more than anything when people even mention, much less mock, their mortality, which Trump is doing here.

Folks under 40 care as much about COVID & social distancing as any other age group. This won't get him anything but anger

Sorry, that one I don't think is true. Maybe 25-40. Otherwise Spring Break 2020 wouldn't have been such a disaster ("If I get corona, I get corona"), college campuses would not have instantly turned into COVID hot spots when students came back, and "COVID parties" would have never become a thing.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt. I don’t think getting out and campaigning in his health would be good for him (disregarding the harm he would cause by spreading Covid like fertilizer on a lawn).

[It’s so Joever]

There was never going to be a damn sympathy bump for a guy that downplayed the virus for the past 6 months.  Stop arguing over stupid ****!!!!!!!!!

So you admit he downplayed the virus?

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Even beyond the obvious reckless and tone-deaf nature of his new "I caught COVID and it's not that bad" message, I think it's awful for him electorally, even if he really does recover without further complications. The message might get sympathy among the 18-40 age group (for them you could reasonably say it's true), but this will not sway their vote. But the 65+ age group most certainly will hate this message with a passion and it will sway their votes. Old people hate more than anything when people even mention, much less mock, their mortality, which Trump is doing here.

Folks under 40 care as much about COVID & social distancing as any other age group. This won't get him anything but anger

Sorry, that one I don't think is true. Maybe 25-40. Otherwise Spring Break 2020 wouldn't have been such a disaster ("If I get corona, I get corona"), college campuses would not have instantly turned into COVID hot spots when students came back, and "COVID parties" would have never become a thing.

Sounds to me like you've got a predisposed bias against young people since before COVID.

I don't know what to tell ya other then you're paintbrushing based on ~1% of young people that the news focuses on