Mary Trump says president sees illness as sign of 'unforgivable weakness'

[orleans]

"On Sunday, Mary Trump said both the president and his father, Fred Trump, held the view that illness was “unacceptable”. “Which sounds incredibly cruel, but happens to be true,” she said.

"She recounted the way this belief affected her grandmother, who had osteoporosis, saying that she would return from the hospital and need care and physical therapy, but that her grandfather, Fred Trump, “was unable to tolerate it. You know, he’d be in the room with her. And as soon as she started showing that she was in physical pain, he would say ‘everything’s great, right. Everything’s great.’ And he’d leave the room.”

"Asked how the reaction to illness was expressed, Mary Trump said that the attitude was driven by the fact that her grandfather was “never sick. Ever.”
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"Friedrich Trump, Mary Trump’s great grandfather and the president’s grandfather, was killed by Spanish influenza in the 1918 pandemic, something Mary Trump said her uncle “seems to have forgotten”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/05/mary-trump-says-president-sees-illness-as-sign-of-unforgivable-weakness

[AlexSFCA]

1. fascinating, coming full circle; didn't trump's grandfather died of spanish flu

[orleans]

4. that's the last paragraph i quoted before the link. yes. n/t

[Cha]

2. KR.. and here he is with the most deadly

Virus of the all.. because of his own Stupidity.

[Hugin]

3. How very Calvinist of them.

Illness is a cudgel used by a vengeful God to punish the weak and reward the chosen ones.

No wonder he digs Betsy DeVos.