Damn, he's really pushing the hydroxchloroquine

[dhol82]

Don’t know who whispered that in his ear but, damn it’s dangerous!

[spanone]

1. A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN

[dhol82]

4. The drug is off patent. It's a generic.

Don’t see where this is going.

[spanone]

8. He never fails to repeat it...he's cukoo for coco puffs

[Generic Other]

38. I think he bought up all the stocks of the drug

exotic pet shops.

[riversedge]

2. and so is Rudy G.

[mobeau69]

3. I'd follow the money. nt

[dhol82]

6. Must be a pharma thing.

Would not be surprised.

[underpants]

5. He's desperate for a cure

Or at least this is his way of showing that he cares.

[dhol82]

7. He cares about nothing.

[underpants]

13. A more complete explanation of what I meant

This is the only way he knows to show compassion or empathy

He doesn't "care" and I mean that as in touchy feely. He thinks he's about results, actions, fixing the problem.

[dhol82]

20. No, he only cares about how anything will affect him financially.

That is the only question.
Trust me, money is the only thing that will motivate him.

[lame54]

25. He is hoping this...

Will be the miracle cure and everybody will love him and not look into his looting and selling off the medical stockpiles

[crickets]

39. +1

[mobeau69]

11. Yep, he knows he's fucked.

Putting all his chips on an untested, unapproved drug for Covid.

[underpants]

15. It's a Hail Mary

As I posted above he only thinks in terms of saving the day. He's the answer. He can fix it.

[BGBD]

9. It's not to make money

It's to try to get reelected. He's wanting people to believe there is a cure so that they go back to work and shop. He is terrified of the economy right now because he knows he can't win if we are in recession.

[dhol82]

14. This!

[people]

10. How much $ do he and his family have invested in hydroxchloroquine?

What an a-hole!!!

[bluestarone]

12. ANY family member dies from this

Should sue this FUCKER

[Celerity]

16. The suspect science behind Trump's chloroquine claims

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-01/trump-chloroquine-coronavirus-bad-science-hiltzik-column

Jennifer Herrera is down to her last 15 days of a drug she needs to control her inflammatory arthritis. Her pharmacy is out of stock and has no idea when its next shipment will come in. Her misfortune is that she’s dependent on a version of chloroquine, a drug touted by President Trump and others as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Pharmacists have been telling patients with arthritis and lupus, an autoimmune condition treated with the drug, that retail supplies are short, if not currently nonexistent. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration placed two formulations of the drug on its list of drug shortages.

Reports of the federal stockpiling raised the hackles of the Lupus Foundation and Arthritis Foundation, which have asked Vice President Mike Pence in a joint letter to ensure that their patients aren’t deprived of the medication. Meanwhile, doctors have been reported to be writing prescriptions for chloroquine for themselves and their families, and prescribing it as an off-label treatment — that is, unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration for the purpose, but legal for doctors to prescribe — for patients facing COVID-19. “It’s like the toilet paper shortage,” Herrera, 72, told me. “But this is a medication.”

Sanofi, the lead manufacturer of Plaquenil, the hydroxychloroquine formulation Herrera takes, says it doesn’t anticipate shortages of the drug due to COVID-19. Novartis, which makes a generic version of hydroxychloroquine, is donating 30 million doses of its drug to the federal government for stockpiling as a COVID-19 treatment. The company says, however, that it “continues to fill orders at historical levels for existing customers to ensure supply for patients that are most in need.”

Several states have tried to put a leash on diversions of chloroquine preparations. Michigan health officials, for instance, have threatened doctors with “administrative action” for prescribing or stockpiling chloroquine-based medications for themselves or family members without a “legitimate medical purpose.” The state has also advised pharmacists to refuse to fill such prescriptions under those circumstances.

snip

[dhol82]

21. I have a freind who depends on her Plaquenil prescription for her rheumatoid arthritis

This whole thing sucks!

[Celerity]

24. lupus patients use it too, and the RA and lupus people are probably fucked for a bit

unless they have stocked up as soon as the orange turd hole first mouthed the words hydroxychloroquine.

[dhol82]

29. Yup, friend spoke with her pharmacy early and was assured about supply.

[Celerity]

31. +1

[Progressive Law]

17. He could be setting up an excuse for when the body count dramatically increases.

"if only doctors followed my advice, millions of lives would have been saved"

[dalton99a]

18. He is fixated on it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. He's selling it as a "magic bullet."

Plus, he couldn't help but slam the governor of Illinois.

Now he's selling the medical workers as warriors who put on their armor and run into the hospitals.

I'd say he's a snake oil salesman, but that's an insult to snakes.

Now he's reading the carefully written closing, making him sound "presidential."

Dr. Birx is on now, which means Fat Donnie is standing in front of the screen which shows the curves. He has to be on camera at all times. At least she's providing actual facts, as opposed to the word salad we've been listening to.

[dhol82]

22. Have to say - he looks weird.

Maybe he’s trying to impersonate the Easter Rabbit?

[Stuart G]

23. Trump is really much too stupid to know that he is "STUPID" (original post prove it again)

[Blue Owl]

26. Pea brain only has room in his head for one thing at a time

n/t

[Zoonart]

27. Serial Killer.

[TubbersUK]

28. A doctor makes an interesting point:

Link to tweet

?s=20



Jeremy Faust MD MS
@jeremyfaust
LISTEN UPSpeaker with three sound waves

Patients with lupus, arthritis, other conditions are *already* on hydroxychloroquine.

And we are diagnosing them with covid19 *LEFT AND RIGHT*

If it does work, it‘s not as good as you hope it is.

And don’t give me any flimsy “resistance” excuses.

STUDY THE DRUGS!

[lunatica]

30. It's money for his Pharma friends.

[sop]

32. The company is called Rising Pharmaceuticals, it's a New Jersey-based drug company.

There are number of interesting articles about Rising Pharmaceuticals.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

33. He's "doubling down" as usual.

He brought it up days ago, and he was quickly corrected on the facts.

According to the author of “The Art of the Deal”:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

When challenged about the facts, Schwartz says, Trump would often double down, repeat himself, and grow belligerent.

[captain queeg]

34. I wish he'd just come out any tell his followers fish tank cleaner will work

What have you got to lose?

[ananda]

35. He's pushing the drug for a reason.

He and Jared want to sell it or use it for extortion
purposes.

[andym]

36. He's peddling hope

If hydoxychloroquine helps, he is going to make a BIG deal about this during the campaign: how he knew better than the experts. If he's wrong, it will all be forgotten: crickets.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

37. This.