What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Brain]

I went to the Jeep dealership do get another key made and the maskage was spotty there.  At the supermercado OTOH folks are zealous.  Masking up when they leave the car in the parking lot.

woops, wrong thread

Nice.

[Sheilbh]

This is such a weird way to handle this:

Covering a cover-up in real time
Jonathan Swan

What is the actual state of President Trump's health — now and over the past 24 hours?

Why it matters: It's one of the most high-stakes questions in the world, and I cannot answer it, despite having spent since 5 a.m. on Friday on my phone with sources inside and close to the White House.

On Friday night, we chose not to publish information we'd learned from well-placed sources who told us the president had experienced a fever and was worse than the White House was letting on.
    We chose not to publish because we weren't certain enough it was correct, and it was no time to lower our editorial standards.

Today, when we saw the doctors line up outside Walter Reed in their white lab coats, we thought we might finally get clarity.
    The picture painted by the White House physician, Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, was rosy: Trump was in good spirits — so good, apparently, he had been fever-free for 24 hours, and felt he could have walked out of Walter Reed today.
    The Q&A didn't engender confidence. Trump's doctor was repeatedly evasive on the question of whether he'd received supplemental oxygen. But the picture remained rosy.

Then, minutes after the doctors' press conference, something extraordinary happened that crystallized this White House's credibility gap, and made a mockery of any reporter trying to responsibly cover this president's condition.
    The White House reporter on pool duty — traveling with the president and delivering official dispatches to reporters at numerous outlets — sent this dispatch, quoting "a source familiar with the president's health":
    The president's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We're still not on a clear path to a full recovery.

That was a much more worrisome portrait. The source, identified by AP, was White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who was shown on camera asking the pool to "go off the record with some of y'all."
    I have tried to get a straight answer from the White House since then about what is going on, and why we are being fed official contradictions.

The bottom line: Multiple sources in the White House and on the campaign have reached out since Meadows' statement, and said they're utterly perplexed about what's going on.
    They, like us, have little confidence in what they are being told.

[garbon]

And the photos of him signing things...

[Syt]

He also recorded a relatively humble 4 minute video.

[Tamas]

And the photos of him signing things...

Signing a blank paper with a marker: extremely presidential.

[Tamas]

n Thursday afternoon Donald Trump held a roundtable of 19 top Republican donors at Bedminster, his 36-hole golf course in New Jersey, where he vented his frustrations about how his push for a rapid vaccine against Covid-19 was being undermined by the deep state.

According to a description of the meeting recorded on video by one of the donors present, "the president said that the approval for vaccines has been slowed down for political reasons by people who wanted to hurt him".

The president's attack on scientists within his own administration seems to have impressed the donors around the table. But what they didn't know at that time, because Trump did not tell them, was that just a few hours earlier one of Trump's closest aides, Hope Hicks, had herself tested positive for the disease.

Such a repulsive creature.

[Maladict]

Watching the press conference, they admitted he has been on oxygen once and 'possibly(?)' a second time. He could be discharged as soon as tomorrow, but they were very evasive about question on lung scans and x-rays

[Sheilbh]

And he's apparently on dexamethasone according to the latest briefing. That was the drug identified as helpful severe cases (and is harmful if patients aren't ventilated or on oxygen).

That seems to go against the idea he might be discharged tomorrow. But then I could imagine Trump basically wanting to try everything that's available, I'm not sure how much doctors would go along with a demanding patient though.

[celedhring]

And he's apparently on dexamethasone according to the latest briefing. That was the drug identified as helpful severe cases (and is harmful if patients aren't ventilated or on oxygen).

That seems to go against the idea he might be discharged tomorrow. But then I could imagine Trump basically wanting to try everything that's available, I'm not sure how much doctors would go along with a demanding patient though.

That demanding patient is the POTUS, though. I can see Trump being so fucking scared he wants everything available injected into his veins. Just not bleach, apparently.

[The Brain]

He's feeling unwell. Clearly.

[Sheilbh]

That demanding patient is the POTUS, though. I can see Trump being so fucking scared he wants everything available injected into his veins. Just not bleach, apparently.

Or, ironically, hyrdoxychloroquine.

[Tamas]

This from WH communications director Alyssa Farah feels important. The briefings have not just been about Trump wanting Dr. Conley to paint rosy picture - it is about reassuring the president himself.

A panicked patient, one who is possibly quite sick, could impact treatment

This would indicate that the different messages yesterday (doctor saying everything is awesome, then Chief of Staff telling journos in confidence that the situation is dire) was because they didn't want Trump to hear about his true condition from the TV. 

[FunkMonk]

That actually makes sense when you understand that the man's entire reality revolves around television.

[Sheilbh]

This would indicate that the different messages yesterday (doctor saying everything is awesome, then Chief of Staff telling journos in confidence that the situation is dire) was because they didn't want Trump to hear about his true condition from the TV. 

It's genuinely the first post-modern Presidency.

[Syt]

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