# Why does Trump give his support to the medical conspiracy crowd? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 9, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947 "2026-05-09T15:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/21 "2026-05-10T15:40:30Z")
I mean, every poster to date has touched on part of the elephant as it were. 1. Troll the libs. 2. Grift the base. 3. Political calculous. But there are probably at least two more: 1. Don’t tell me what to do you _smart_ people! (more nuanced than this, but it boils down to that) 2. CDC, and any taxpayer supported health (a rich person/(R)/MAGA bugaboo) costs me money in TAXES. I shouldn’t have to pay for them! And of course, all gov’t money is TRUMP’S money. MAHA’s cures cost nothing - or rather, they cost him and his ilk LESS. Really quite simple that way… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/22 "2026-05-10T15:52:47Z")
**OR** —he’s dying. Of something. And desperate for a “cure”. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/23 "2026-05-10T16:13:56Z")
Good, let them pump him full of woo. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/24 "2026-05-10T16:42:25Z")
There’s one more aspect to this which is the.way it’s part of the wider co-opting of the utter insane literally lunatic fringe into the mainstream GOP by Trump. The “crazy” gun nut has always been a GOP demographic but Trump brought the utterly bonkers David Icke style neo-Nazi demographic into the fold. The kind of medical conspiracy currently at the center of US health policy is not “government vaccine mandates are the thin end of the wedge for Communism” it’s “the Jews are putting microchips in vaccines to send demonic messages into my brain and make me impotent” kind. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/25 "2026-05-14T00:02:49Z")
**General Jack D. Ripper** : You know when fluoridation first began? **Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake** : I… no, no. I don’t, Jack. **Ripper** : Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works. **Mandrake** : Uh, Jack, Jack, listen… tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first… become… well, develop this theory? **Ripper** : [somewhat embarassed] Well, I, uh… I… I… first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. **Mandrake** : Hmm. **Ripper** : Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue… a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I… I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. **Mandrake** : Hmm. **Ripper** : I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh… women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh… I do not avoid women, Mandrake. **Mandrake** : No. **Ripper** : But I… I do deny them my essence. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/26 "2026-05-14T00:07:12Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > **General Jack D. Ripper** : Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue… a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I… I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. > **Mandrake** : Hmm. > **Ripper** : I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh… women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh… I do not avoid women, Mandrake. > **Mandrake** : No. > **Ripper** : But I… I do deny them my essence General Jack D Ripper would be a rational moderating voice in Trump’s HHS dept (or DoD for that matter) ☹ ---
**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:** [May 14, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/27 "2026-05-14T00:52:40Z")
As with Dr Strangelove. BTW, any @DrStrangelove news? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/28 "2026-05-14T01:52:33Z")
Presuming you mean @Dr.Strangelove instead, see the entries staring here: > [@Who's missing that you really want to see on the Board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1185): > > Wow. I’d missed that. @Dr.Strangelove’s profile says he last posted in Sept and last visited in October. So 4 and 3 months ago respectively. If he’s stopped by to read since then it was not while logged on. His last few posts gave no hint of anything out of the ordinary. Sadly no new news. I suggest further discussion should be there rather than in this particular thread. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/29 "2026-05-14T04:22:58Z")
This (utterly batshit) story is a good example of this . .. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uxapSQdpFYE/maxresdefault.jpg "Down The Rabbit Hole Of "Love Has Won"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxapSQdpFYE) This completely bonkers new age crystal and energy healing cult who get instructions from 5D energy beings (who are lead by Saint Gerome and… Robin Williams!?!). 10-20 years ago you’d have asked me to place them on the policial spectrum i’d have guessed either apolitical or solidly left wing. But nope, they are MAGA! That’s the kind of insanity Trump has brought on board. Unfortunately the cult leader killed herself with booze and collodial silver (and mummified by her followers) before she could be appointed by RFK jnr to the HHS dept ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947/30 "2026-05-15T00:04:43Z")
The endless lies, conspiracy theories, contradictions, I think are all to the same end. No one will know what to believe pretty soon. Anything sounding reasonable could be a lie. And anything seeming outrageously unlikely could be true. Pretty hard to get a crowd to push back, against anything, if everybody is confused about what’s lies and what’s truth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-trump-give-his-support-to-the-medical-conspiracy-crowd/1029947.md?page=1)