# How will Donald Trump deal with COVID (BBQ Pit version) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132 "2020-10-03T18:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/21 "2020-10-05T01:04:39Z")
Hm, I find it… Difficult, to show that level of restraint, I already have a special meal planned for such an event to generate the, er, emotionally appropriate offering, to be left after dancing a happy little jig first of course. Perhaps the Snoopy Dance ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/22 "2020-10-05T02:25:16Z")
As I’m sure we all know by now, Trump allegedly signed out of the hospital to do a (as CNN put it) joyride around Washington, to show everyone who great he feels. I personally think that was a stunt double in the SUV, and if Trump’s illness was fake like some people are speculating it is, that would be as easy to lie about as the moon landing. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/23 "2020-10-05T03:18:10Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I personally think that was a stunt double in the SUV This looks like a double to you? [![](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201004173307-02-trump-walter-reed-motorcade-1004-large-tease.jpg) ](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/201004173307-02-trump-walter-reed-motorcade-1004-large-tease.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/24 "2020-10-05T03:47:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I personally think that was a stunt double in the SUV, Nah. It’s too much exactly what he would do. He would absolutely think that driving by and waving at his fawning followers is worth putting more Secret Service Agents at risk by making them ride around in a car with him while he’s spewing out virus particles. I can’t imagine him approving a stunt double, both because he wants all the adoration, and because he thinks he has the power, personally, to bestow, I don’t know, something like a blessing, on his followers ---
**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:** [October 5, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/25 "2020-10-05T04:34:44Z")
It looks surreal to me. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/26 "2020-10-05T04:43:09Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > It looks surreal to me If you enlarge the picture (click on it and CTRL+), there’s no doubt. Any there is his little hand to seal the deal. It’s from [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/)’s homepage tonight. Here’s the [article](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-alternate-reality/index.html), but you can’t click on the image to enlarge it there as it’s a video. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/27 "2020-10-05T05:10:29Z")
My evidence-free theory: He meant to go back to the White House, but only got one block when he suddenly felt faint or sick and they had to take him back to the hospital. Hey, it’s happened to me that I go out when I’ve been sick and only make it a block then turn around and go back home and back to bed. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/28 "2020-10-05T19:34:41Z")
I think the karmically happiest part of this event is that the largest obstacle to Trump receiving quality care is … Trump himself; his beastly personality and his pitiful judgment. As demonstrated by the limo ride around town, but there just has to be lots more of the same idjit dynamic going on where we can’t see. The fact his actions of the last 9 months contributed so heavily to the fact he got infected in the first place is nice and all, but this last is the karmic shit-cherry which he himself has placed on the whole karmic shit-sundae. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/29 "2020-10-05T19:35:51Z")
How will he deal with it? He will die from it. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/30 "2020-10-05T20:45:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I think the karmically happiest part of this event is that the largest obstacle to Trump receiving quality care is … Trump himself; his beastly personality and his pitiful judgment. As demonstrated by the limo ride around town, but there just has to be lots more of the same idjit dynamic going on where we can’t see. > > The fact his actions of the last 9 months contributed so heavily to the fact he got infected in the first place is nice and all, but this last is the karmic shit-cherry which he himself has placed on the whole karmic shit-sundae. I certainly think his chickens have come home to roost, but I’m not happy about him exposing so many others. I feel particularly incensed about him exposing Secret Service Agents, who literally have to be close to him, and people like the debate attendees who are not his supporters. I feel less so about his own supporters, because they are making their own questionable choices with predictable results. I don’t wish ill on anyone, but this was about the most predictable case of Covid ever. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/31 "2020-10-06T05:50:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > My evidence-free theory: He meant to go back to the White House, but only got one block when he suddenly felt faint or sick and they had to take him back to the hospital. Holy shit, you may have nailed it. Within a day, he is back in the White House, exposing staffers, agents, and residence workers. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/32 "2020-10-06T12:18:14Z")
Now that he’s back at the WH, I think I called it pretty well in my prior post. He’s now his health’s own worst enemy. Which is good news for the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/33 "2020-10-06T12:41:54Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > in his distress he is visited by a dead as a doornail past business partner that informs Trump that he will be visited by 3 spirits (ghosts, not drinks), which happen that night, after those visits Trump has the heart change that Scrooge had and also buys every Mexican a turkey, except fo the vegetarian Mexicans which he buys a Tofurkey. Okay, that was funny. This could be a stand-up bit. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/34 "2020-10-09T22:43:15Z")
I understand that this translates to “Do not be afraid.” SFW. > **["Don't fear Corona!" - Funny](https://9gag.com/gag/aGdojG7)** > > 10,356 points • 510 comments ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/35 "2020-10-09T23:01:06Z")
Some of the comments are decidedly NSFW, just FYI. Also, apparently very Pro-Trump at 9GAG, it would seem. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132/36 "2020-10-09T23:09:05Z")
I didn’t scroll down; guess I should have. It was the only link I could find that could be C&P’ed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-donald-trump-deal-with-covid-bbq-pit-version/922132.md?page=1)