# Trump Claims to be Taking Hydroxychloroquine **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069 "2020-05-18T22:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/21 "2020-05-19T01:01:16Z")
If a doctor prescribed it, that’s malpractice. I think he’s lying. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/22 "2020-05-19T01:12:55Z")
> [@UDS](#): > > Is this a tacit admission that he has tested positive for Covid-19? As I recall, they were testing it in last-hope situations, at about ventilator stage. It is not a prophylactic medicine and can be damaging to a hamberder-stressed heart. It is possible that the doctor is giving it to him under threat of being fired. More likely, though, it is some other thing. The rumor I heard is that the Slovenian paid the doctor to give him the blue pill in excessive doses in order to destroy his ability to further molest her – and to kill the talk once and for all that he fucks pigs. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/23 "2020-05-19T01:19:19Z")
Trump is a lying fucking con man. The conservatives I know, the ones with the Tump stickers and Trump shirts, love to say “hydroxychloroquine” as a testament to the fact that they know big words. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/24 "2020-05-19T01:24:49Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My guess is that he’s lying, not for a political reason, but for a financial one. He or someone in his family owns a chunk of the company (I’m betting) and when his followers all flock to beg their doctors for it and/or the stock goes up, he’ll make a bundle. He wants to make as much $$ as he can while he’s still in office. Do the Russians own a company that makes Hydroxychloroquine? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/25 "2020-05-19T01:46:13Z")
It is off-patent, so anyone can crank the stuff out. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/26 "2020-05-19T02:12:39Z")
Hydroxychloroquine can cause an encyclopedic catalog of weird side effects (see [this lengthy list from Mayo Clinic](https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/hydroxychloroquine-oral-route/side-effects/drg-20064216)) including bizarre neurological, psychological, and psychiatric side effects. Here are just a few from the list: [ul][li] feeling that others are watching you or controlling your behavior[/li][li] feeling that others can hear your thoughts[/li][li] feeling, seeing, or hearing things that are not there[/li][li] severe mood or mental changes[/li][li] sticking out of the tongue[/li][\*] unusual behavior[/ul] ---
**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:** [May 19, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/27 "2020-05-19T02:16:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > If a doctor prescribed it, that’s malpractice. I think he’s lying. And yet… When Trump started pushing this stuff (or maybe a little before?) there was that rush of panic buying, and we all read those stories that legitimate patients who really needed the stuff were starting to have a hard time finding it. But this is a prescription-only drug (in the United States). So that means whole bunches of people were asking their doctors for it, and whole bunches of doctors were (and I suppose still are) prescribing it for their patients just for the asking. Whole lotta malpractice going on there. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/28 "2020-05-19T02:19:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I feel the likeliest explanation is that Trump can never admit he was wrong. He said Hydroxychloroquine is the cure for Covid 19 and now he will never back down from that. This is just another Sharpie moment for him. > > As to whether he’s actually taking it, he probably isn’t. This is the most likely explanation. Who knows if he’s actually taking it or not, but he’s saying he is in some kind of attempt to prove he’s always been right about it. I’d be willing to bet that if he avoids catching COVID-19, he’ll credit hydroxychloroquine with that in a further attempt to show that he’s been right all along. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/29 "2020-05-19T02:20:44Z")
[quote=“Senegoid, post:26, topic:854069”] Hydroxychloroquine can cause an encyclopedic catalog of weird side effects (see [this lengthy list from Mayo Clinic](https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/hydroxychloroquine-oral-route/side-effects/drg-20064216)) including bizarre neurological, psychological, and psychiatric side effects. Here are just a few from the list: [ul][li] feeling that others are watching you or controlling your behavior[/li][li] feeling that others can hear your thoughts[/li][li] feeling, seeing, or hearing things that are not there[/li][li] severe mood or mental changes[/li][li] sticking out of the tongue[/li][li] unusual behavior[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] But how will we know? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/30 "2020-05-19T02:35:08Z")
I’ve been to many, many Doctors my whole life. I’ve never been able to convince any of them to prescribe a drug I had researched and just knew I needed. But I never had a doctor in my back pocket. That Doctor who lied through his teeth about Trumps health a couple of years ago seems unscrupulous enough to either give him the drug or lie and say he did. ETA: He made a press release. It’s the same Doctor. He prescribed it. My god. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/31 "2020-05-19T02:48:11Z")
I hope he takes it in suppository form. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/32 "2020-05-19T02:51:25Z")
If he is actually taking the stuff (and I have no reason to believe that fucking liar isn’t lying again) I’d have to question the ethics of a doctor who would prescribe it to someone who is morbidly obese (243 pounds, my ass) and who has high LDL cholesterol. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/33 "2020-05-19T03:13:08Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My guess is that he’s lying, not for a political reason, but for a financial one. He or someone in his family owns a chunk of the company (I’m betting) and when his followers all flock to beg their doctors for it and/or the stock goes up, he’ll make a bundle. He wants to make as much $$ as he can while he’s still in office. > > No comment. 🙂 Ah, nope: [Does Trump Benefit Financially by Promoting Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 Treatment? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-profit-hydroxychloroquine/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/34 "2020-05-19T03:16:41Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > Traitor Trump (R - Impeached) should be getting Lysol injections and UV enemas. Just in case. He definitely blows smoke up our butts on a daily basis. Heck, that man could say water was wet and I wouldn’t believe him. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/35 "2020-05-19T03:29:40Z")
You don’t need a patent to make a killing on a drug. Just ask Martin Shkreli. All you need is a manufacturing process and FDA approval. It’s going to take any potential competitor time and expense to get those, regardless of the absence of patent rights. ---
**Author:** ![arles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@arles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arles)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/36 "2020-05-19T03:36:44Z")
I thought I heard him calling it “Hydroxy” on television. Maybe his doctor is giving him Hydroxycut and he doesn’t know the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/37 "2020-05-19T03:49:42Z")
Maybe he’s eating those fake Oreos, **Hydrox** cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/38 "2020-05-19T04:09:56Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Yeah, he’s not even a good bullshitter; that would take more talent that he has demonstrated in any part of his career of hawking frozen steaks, offering shitty real estate investment advice, and running waterfront casinos into bankruptcy. No, he is a great bullshitter. It’s the one thing he’s undeniably good at. If he _weren’t_ one, he would have faced _consequences_ for all his failures. He hasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/39 "2020-05-19T04:46:47Z")
I want the President to be safe from COVID-19, and encourage him to double the dosage. #MAGA ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069/40 "2020-05-19T04:57:02Z")
I’m usually the one on this board defending Trump, but this is inexcusable. It is extraordinarily irresponsible for him to be taking and/or announcing that he is taking this medication. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-claims-to-be-taking-hydroxychloroquine/854069.md?page=3)