# Did Trump actually get COVID or was that whole thing a big scam or show? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 22, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054 "2023-04-22T16:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/21 "2023-04-23T02:25:54Z")
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that not only did he catch it, it damn near killed him. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/22 "2023-04-23T02:32:36Z")
Indeed. Remember that staged photo from his Walter Reed office when he was pretending to sign blank pieces of paper? [![](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/trump-signing_hpEmbed_20201003-235000_3x2_992.jpg) ](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/trump-signing_hpEmbed_20201003-235000_3x2_992.jpg) He’s not wearing a tie. Loser Donald doesn’t simply just not wear a tie - in his “three eight-year-olds in a trenchcoat” worldview, ties are a Big Boy Business thing that Big Business Boys wear, so he always has one on except when he’s golfing (golf being the Big Boy Business way that Big Business Boys play). He’s not wearing a tie because he’s struggling to breathe. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/23 "2023-04-23T19:44:57Z")
He was overheard whimpering pathetically to aides about **[“going out like Stan Chera.”](https://god.dailydot.com/trump-stan-chera/)** He was sick and he knew it. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/24 "2023-04-23T19:52:49Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > He was sick and he knew it Not to wish ill on someone, but it’s too bad he wasn’t sick enough to obviously and visibly be incapacitated for a few weeks, and unable muster the energy to stage his triumphant return. His fucking followers needed to see that covid is real. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/25 "2023-04-23T20:05:16Z")
I remember [that](https://schumanchu.eu/html/l/l_00100quarantina.html)! It could have turned out so much better, just goes to prove that Goddot is severely right wing and testing us badly. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/26 "2023-04-23T20:12:10Z")
The thing that really confused me was how in the end, Trump recommended the vaccine for covid, and got some boos for that. But he got a booster shot. And then he showed his peculiar cowardly ways when he refused to allow pictures of him getting the booster to be posted. Like every president in the past did when a virus was an issue in the past. Somehow he was brave to tell his minions to get a shot, but a better way to reach them was avoided by him as it looked that he would appear weak. 🤦🏽 ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054/27 "2023-04-23T21:54:45Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > Not to wish ill on someone, but it’s too bad he wasn’t sick enough to obviously and visibly be incapacitated I think he was. He looked like shit at the debate. He looked weak. I honestly think that case of covid is why he lost the election. His trademark, his appeal, was that he was a strong man. And he looked weak. Maybe not to everyone. But to me. And to enough of his supporters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-actually-get-covid-or-was-that-whole-thing-a-big-scam-or-show/983054.md?page=1)