# Trump has COVID! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022 "2020-10-02T10:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**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, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/442 "2020-10-05T05:26:14Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Those guys all fellate him enough. Can you catch Covid that way? Yes, especially if you inhale. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/443 "2020-10-05T05:59:05Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike1](#): > > The Trumpistas are claiming a) that COVID is still a Democrat hoax, and b) that Trump is sick because the Democrats infected him with COVID. > > Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense to me either. Yeah, I was wondering when they’d start blaming the outbreak on the Democrats. Like in 12 Monkeys or something. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/444 "2020-10-05T06:02:54Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > pres. just did a drive by waving thingy. With the windows sealed shut so all the occupants of the vehicle are forced to breathe the same air as him. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/445 "2020-10-05T07:00:15Z")
Guess what’s happening in New Jersey? > **[NJ officials contact 206 people at Trump event at Bedminster](https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-archive-new-jersey-3e8ca434fef02199464b9d6b74fc7c88)** > > State health officials in New Jersey have contacted more than 200 people who attended a campaign fundraiser at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster on Thursday, hours before the president... ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/446 "2020-10-05T08:33:37Z")
Which explains why trump is against insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/447 "2020-10-05T12:12:27Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Un-fucking-believable. Un-fucking-believable. I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been in a coma the last 4 years. It turns out we have a narcissistic sociopath as President, and putting people in danger for a photo-op is pretty typical these days. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/448 "2020-10-05T12:28:02Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Bullshit incoming! Ha! That was awesome. A “plus one” for Discourse functions. You gave me just enough time to put on my sombrero. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/449 "2020-10-05T12:35:17Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been in a coma the last 4 years. It turns out we have a narcissistic sociopath as President, and putting people in danger for a photo-op is pretty typical these days. See, that’s trump for ya though. No matter how desensitized you think you’ve become to his fuckery, he’ll do some new awful thing that causes you to face-palm and shake your head in disbelief. His malevolent narcissism knows no bounds. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/450 "2020-10-05T12:58:41Z")
And his base is unshakeable in their support. We are so far beyond “what if Obama had done it?” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/451 "2020-10-05T13:12:53Z")
The Secret Service guys volunteered to drive the president. This is the latest justification. I’ve been watching Fox this morning to get a feel for things. I feel sick to my stomach. Trump is like a god to these people. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/452 "2020-10-05T13:16:37Z")
He is certainly the leader of their cult and I don’t think anything he does will change their feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/453 "2020-10-05T13:20:21Z")
That is a sorry assed justification. They should not have been put into a position where they had to volunteer for such an asinine assignment. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/454 "2020-10-05T13:23:17Z")
I prefer world leaders who don’t tweet while stoned. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/455 "2020-10-05T13:26:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I prefer world leaders who don’t tweet while stoned. - I prefer world leaders who aren’t stoned. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/456 "2020-10-05T13:28:48Z")
But Bob Dylan said that it’s unavoidable. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/457 "2020-10-05T13:30:06Z")
Did you see Alec Baldwin as Trump and Jim Carrey as Biden on SNL on the weekend? Pretty accurate reflection of their debate. ---
**Author:** ![Rob54](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rob54/32/4665_2.png) [@Rob54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rob54)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/458 "2020-10-05T13:57:17Z")
Of course, now, after the debate, by all means, a hype is needed, to attract attention by any means, and if he is not even sick (which I would not even be surprised at) then this will serve as one of the convenient reasons for him to pose as a victim, an injured person. And if he is not sick, then naturally he will soon “recover” by showing this to the whole world how strong, creamy and mighty he is as “his” America. But, and if he is ill and there are complications, it’s okay, he has one friend, by the way, a Nobel laureate, who recently invented a vaccine against coronavirus, and I think there will be one extra ampoule for Donald ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/459 "2020-10-05T14:02:22Z")
A simple theory would be that Donald is very desperate right now, desperate enough to get up out of a hospital bed, ride around in front of a handful of flag waving idiots and even resume campaigning. He’s down in the polls and facing a huge loss of personal power and prestige a month from now, with no way to squelch the legal investigations soon to follow. He can rest after Nov. 3. He’s got to roll the dice, play hurt now, there’s just too much personal at stake. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/460 "2020-10-05T14:24:42Z")
> [@MrMrmrmr](#): > > If you can program and run a CNC mill and work to .001” tolerances you can make 35$ an hour too. Gosh, the princely sum of $35/hr is certainly enough to make a wage worker into a titan of industry. I can see why it’s your go-to brag. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022/461 "2020-10-05T14:26:09Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > A simple theory would be that Donald is very desperate right now, desperate enough to get up out of a hospital bed, ride around in front of a handful of flag waving idiots and even resume campaigning. You could say desperate. We could also say he literally only knows how to do one thing, which is self-promotion, and he’s going to do it literally until he dies. Just like the lab rat that ignores nutrients to keep pressing the cocaine lever. He’s only got one trick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-covid/922022.md?page=24)