What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/05/politics/donald-trump-covid-condition-walter-reed/index.html

Trump says he is leaving the hospital after three days of coronavirus treatment

(CNN)President Donald Trump says he's leaving the hospital after three nights, declaring he is "feeling really good!" and that coronavirus is nothing to fear.

"I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good!" Trump tweeted.

"Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life," he went on. "We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"

Trump's physician was due to provide an update on the President's condition in the 3 p.m. ET hour, the White House said, as an upbeat Trump was telling associates he is desperate to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Yet even as the President's health appears to be improving, the situation within his administration was hardly stabilizing. The President's top spokeswoman and two of her deputies tested positive, it was revealed on Monday, adding to a growing list of administration officials and others within the Trump orbit to have contracted the virus.

The viral contagion spreading through Trump's inner circle and among West Wing staffers has caused deep anxiety among administration officials, who fear the scope of the outbreak remains unknown.

At the same time, Trump himself is intent on returning to the building while he combats what his doctors have described as a serious case of the disease requiring intravenous medication and, on at least two occasions, supplemental oxygen.

Bored and eager to appear healthy, Trump has agitated for a swift release and on Sunday made a foray outside the hospital walls for a slow-motion drive-by to greet supporters gathered at a roadside nearby.

People who have spoken to the President over the past day say he sounds in good spirits even as he pushes to be released. Trump was demanding to go back to the White House on Sunday, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN, but was convinced to remain by his medical team.

"He is done with the hospital," one of the sources said of Trump's mood on Sunday. Trump is concerned the sight of him being hospitalized "makes him look weak," the other source said.

Not all of his allies are in agreement, however; the President is being warned if he rushes to leave the hospital and then has a setback requiring readmittance it would be damaging not only to his health but politically as well.

More than two days since he was airlifted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Americans remain largely in the dark about the trajectory of his infection with Covid-19 and the specifics of his condition.

And cases continue to arise in the West Wing after what many aides say has been deep mismanagement of a growing health crisis. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany wrote she tested positive on Monday morning after a string of negative tests through the weekend.

Combined with the positive tests of two of McEnany's deputies, that brings brings the number of Trump insiders to have contracted coronavirus to more than a dozen, including his wife, senior adviser, personal assistant, campaign manager, two debate prep advisers, party chairwoman and three Republican senators.

McEnany spoke to reporters briefly at the White House on Sunday without wearing a mask. In her statement, she said "no reporters, producers or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the White House Medical Unit."

But her diagnosis heightened the impression of the virus spreading quickly through Trump's staff, who only began wearing masks regularly as he was being transported to hospital on Friday. Some aides have expressed frustration at a lack of communication about the situation.

Mindful of Trump's aversion to appearing weak, the White House has tried to control the optics of his illness with misleading briefings, posed images and the reckless photo-op outside the hospital.
Monday morning, the President's advisers were signaling he would likely be back to the White House by the evening, a prospect first raised by one of his physicians during Sunday's briefing. The messages were funneled through Fox News, which the President has been watching almost without interruption inside the presidential suite at Walter Reed, often growing upset by what he views as exaggerated descriptions of his health.

"I heard from Dr. Conley last night and he said he is still on track for discharge today," Marc Siegel, a medical contributor to the channel, said on Monday. Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley is the President's lead doctor.

In a separate statement broadcast on Fox, the President's chief of staff Mark Meadows said "we are still optimistic that he will be able to return to the White House later today."

The decision to publicly telegraph a date of expected discharge caused some anxiety among the President's aides, who feared the optics if Trump is not back to the White House by Monday.

It has also led to concern the President is applying pressure on his medical team to leave the hospital earlier than is prudent.

On Saturday, Conley said the most critical stretch of Trump's disease will come seven to 10 days after diagnosis.

Based on current calculations of a positive test on Thursday evening, the President on Monday was only at four or five days. But without knowing when the President's last negative test took place -- information the White House and Conley have refused to provide -- it's not clear how far along the President is in the disease.

As he and his medical team were weighing the time of his potential discharge, Trump was issuing a furious burst of all-caps tweets related to the presidential election.

"NEXT YEAR WILL BE THE BEST EVER. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!!!" he wrote, following by nearly 20 messages each listing an issue he hopes voters will deem important.

[Sheilbh]

.....Will he be self-isolating in the residence? Or will White House staff be allowed to wear PPE? Because isn't it like 10-14 days from diagnosis before you stop being a risk to others.

Not that it matters to him but still...

[The Minsky Moment]

He also has far more personal experience with bankruptcy. Any other forms of self destruction that make you more fit for high office?

Jeffrey Epstein
Tax/bank/insurance fraud
Defrauding his own charity
Hiring scab illegal immigrant labor
Illegally demolishing landmark buildings
Abusing eminent domain powers to force a little old lady out of her home
Secretly running racist and defamatory advertising campaigns against Native American tribes
Lost money running a casino - five times

Plus he donated more money to Hillary Clinton than Biden ever did

[Syt]

.....Will he be self-isolating in the residence?

Or will White House staff be allowed to wear PPE?

Because isn't it like 10-14 days from diagnosis before you stop being a risk to others.

It's Trump. He doesn't care.

[The Brain]

Trump's aversion to appearing weak

Wut? That's his most common activity.

[FunkMonk]

Donald is mega high on drugs. Pence needs to coup him immediately.

[The Brain]

Is there a way to raise zombie Haig?

[Admiral Yi]

Hiring scab illegal immigrant labor

Unorganized illegal immigrant labor.

[Barrister]

So I'm not a doctor, I'm not sure if Trump leaving the hospital is a good idea or not.  Being the President, I'm sure he'll be under 24/7 medical care at either place.

BUt as he leaves he tweets this:

I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

[Tamas]

Apart from feeling sorry for the secret service people he is bound to infect, I welcome Trump trying to continue campaigning while sick and full of meds.

[The Brain]

If they suit up properly they'll be fine.

[Syt]

Saw this on Twitter.

[Sheilbh]

This is not a normal party:
https://twitter.com/kloeffler/status/1313201217309417478?s=21

[Admiral Yi]

Saw this on Twitter.

So much more clever without the "Jim Jones approved." 

[The Brain]

This is not a normal party:
https://twitter.com/kloeffler/status/1313201217309417478?s=21

It's "Special", as stated.