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Would it be wrong to start a pool on the day/time a Trump tests positive? (Original Post) Grasswire2 May 2020 OP
They lie about everything else. Why wouldn't they lie at this? struggle4progress May 2020 #1
THIS Jamastiene May 2020 #3
Thank you! But I half expect it to be a family member. The empressof all May 2020 #7
Maybe. I think they're more likely to say, "Oh, no bigly! It's like a common cold. Re-open now!" struggle4progress May 2020 #10
Yes...Anything is possible with these conartists. The empressof all May 2020 #11
I think he would only lie if he didn't have it and said he did. If he OnDoutside May 2020 #23
We'd never know-- dawg day May 2020 #2
A Blast From The Past smb May 2020 #4
Trump will be in perfect health, right up until he drops dead and the stench gives it away. Thomas Hurt May 2020 #5
Maybe the EMT's will tik tok it Generic Other May 2020 #6
If he were to become seriously ill...one can only hope, his cronies will not be able to hide it Thekaspervote May 2020 #8
Maybe Timewas May 2020 #9
If he died of C19 what would they name after him? Captain Zero May 2020 #22
K&R UTUSN May 2020 #12
I'm in. MontanaMama May 2020 #13
I don't know how to run one. Grasswire2 May 2020 #17
That would be SOOOOO wrong . . . . . . next Tuesday, 4.14pm. Stinky The Clown May 2020 #14
We aren't that lucky. GusFring May 2020 #15
No. Captain Stern May 2020 #16
They would NEVER tell us. Codeine May 2020 #18
They would cancel all his public appearances before allowing him to show serious symptoms DFW May 2020 #19
I'll buy the square "Before 5/1/2020" nt Lucid Dreamer May 2020 #20
This is so wrong rufus dog May 2020 #21
Hell no! Wawannabe May 2020 #24
What are their thoughts of you? pwb May 2020 #25
We can not let him die while in office. If he does... Hotler May 2020 #26

struggle4progress

(118,330 posts)
1. They lie about everything else. Why wouldn't they lie at this?
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:43 PM
May 2020

Trump will "test positive" whenever he thinks he knows how to spin the story to his advantage

The empressof all

(29,098 posts)
7. Thank you! But I half expect it to be a family member.
Fri May 8, 2020, 11:03 PM
May 2020

The enticement of pity points if Melania or Baron are at deaths door may just be too much for him to resist. Yes, I beat you on the cynicism score board. Not necessarily a thing to boast about. But I am just that jaded when it comes to those fricken criminals.

On the other side when I slip into positive thought, I wonder which staffer(s) brought it in...It's a bloodless coup by the invisible enemy.

struggle4progress

(118,330 posts)
10. Maybe. I think they're more likely to say, "Oh, no bigly! It's like a common cold. Re-open now!"
Sat May 9, 2020, 12:09 AM
May 2020

This is safest if they lie about the whole thing.

The empressof all

(29,098 posts)
11. Yes...Anything is possible with these conartists.
Sat May 9, 2020, 12:33 AM
May 2020

I wouldn't put it past them. What amazes me is the number of people who are eye witnesses to his behavior in the White House and sit by silently.

OnDoutside

(19,969 posts)
23. I think he would only lie if he didn't have it and said he did. If he
Sat May 9, 2020, 04:43 AM
May 2020

did have it and was asymptotic, he'd be shouting from the rooftop that it's no big deal, so open up the country. If he did have it and was sick from it, he wouldn't be able to cover it up, as he is a whiny ass beeeatch and would be blaming someone else.

smb

(3,474 posts)
4. A Blast From The Past
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020
Donald Trump Tests Positive for Everything, According to His Own Doctor


Donald Trump tests positive for every medical ailment. All of them. Supposedly, that's what his doctor says—or at least, that's what the Trump campaign portrays him as saying....

On December 4, 2015, the Trump campaign released…something.

(letter image at https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/490839/donaldtrumpdoctorletter.webp)

It purports to be a medical letter, but it is one of the most ridiculous documents ever to emerge in any political campaign....

...The letter also has problems with sentence structure and major typographical errors, such as the opening line, "To Whom My Concern." Most amusing, it says that his medical examination of Trump has "only positive results." In medical terms, if the test is positive, it confirms the existence of disease. Is this doctor saying Trump has every medical ailment that could be found in examination?...

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
5. Trump will be in perfect health, right up until he drops dead and the stench gives it away.
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:58 PM
May 2020

We will never know he is sick unless they can't hide it.

Thekaspervote

(32,787 posts)
8. If he were to become seriously ill...one can only hope, his cronies will not be able to hide it
Fri May 8, 2020, 11:04 PM
May 2020

It will eventually surface

If he were to die in office, pray god there wouldn’t be enough of a movement they would martyr him? Somebody talk me down!!

Captain Stern

(2,201 posts)
16. No.
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:29 AM
May 2020

No, it wouldn't.

But a smart bettor wouldn't enter the pool because they would know that it's almost impossible for trump to be infected by the virus. he's the healthiest President of all time, maybe the healthiest person of all time..because of his great genes....I don't know, but some people are saying that.

And if he did somehow get the virus, it would only be because Obama left the virus someplace in the White House where trump would be sure to come into contact with it, which could be pretty much any place, except for in a book.

If that actually is the case, then I'd just have one thing to say:

Thanks, Obama.

DFW

(54,436 posts)
19. They would cancel all his public appearances before allowing him to show serious symptoms
Sat May 9, 2020, 02:06 AM
May 2020

Let alone show a photo of him in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask.

They'll just say he had to make an urgent trip to the Kingdom of Atlantis for extended negotiations over freeing up shipping lanes for American maritime traffic. Since the Kingdom of Atlantis has strict rules about the number of air breathers they allow in at any one time, no surface press coverage was allowed. But they did allow Trump and his team to send back reports. The first one said that the king of Atlantis was a good friend of his, and that they were already making "tremendous progress," and hoped to arrive at an agreement just as soon as Trump stopped coughing.

Er, umm, make that, "as soon as Atlantis agrees to our terms."

pwb

(11,287 posts)
25. What are their thoughts of you?
Sat May 9, 2020, 10:54 AM
May 2020

They could give a rats ass about any of us. So it would not be wrong to people that wish us all unwell.

Hotler

(11,443 posts)
26. We can not let him die while in office. If he does...
Sat May 9, 2020, 10:59 AM
May 2020

his fucking minions will want to rename every High School, boulevard, airport, courthouse etc. after him.

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