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Trump declares ‘I get it,’ then briefly leaves hospital (AP trashes President's short trip to greet supporters)
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | Sunday October 4, 5:15 p.m. | Jill Colvin, Steve Peoples and Jonathan Lemire/AP

Posted on 10/04/2020 4:37:07 PM PDT by CedarDave

BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday evening before briefly leaving the hospital to salute cheering supporters from his motorcade, a surprising move that raised new questions about the president’s understanding of the coronavirus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.

“It’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID,” Trump said, standing in his hospital room in a video posted on social media. “I learned it by really going to school.” He added, “I get it, and I understand it.”

Before the video was posted, the infected president cruised by supporters in his bulletproof SUV, windows rolled up, driven by Secret Service agents in protective gear who were potentially exposed to the disease that has swept through the White House in recent days.

“This is insanity,” tweeted Dr. James P. Phillips, an attending physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where Trump has been hospitalized since Friday evening. “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die,” the doctor wrote. “For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid19; hospital; potus; trump
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To: LeonardFMason

The media just do not understand Trump or his supporters at all. Not one bit.


41 posted on 10/04/2020 5:07:14 PM PDT by TeddyRay
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To: gov_bean_ counter

That is correct — please note the article says “an” attending physician — this is not someone involved with care, otherwise it would have said PDJT’s attending physician.


42 posted on 10/04/2020 5:08:17 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: CedarDave

So according to his logic, the President should NEVER go outside his office, even when perfectly healthy, because that would needlessly endanger a SS agent who might get hit by an assassin’s bullet, etc.


43 posted on 10/04/2020 5:08:20 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: SmokingJoe

Number 3’s a no. It was the Marines that piloted the helicopter from the White House. That’s why they call it Marine One. But you knew that already, didn’t you! ;>))


44 posted on 10/04/2020 5:08:40 PM PDT by CedarDave (NM's oil patch needs fracking; large signs here saying: "Vote Trump 2020. Your job depends on it.")
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To: CedarDave

How so Dr. Phillips.? Everyone was wearing a mask! Are you saying masks don’t work?. Schmuckasslib!


45 posted on 10/04/2020 5:09:12 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Every second Trump isn’t being spontaneous is a risk.


46 posted on 10/04/2020 5:09:46 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: CedarDave

As PR it doesn’t get any better. The media was snubbed, the supporters were thanked, and the Fake News journolistas who were saying that he was at deaths door and should step down have been exposed as naked frauds.


47 posted on 10/04/2020 5:10:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: TeddyRay
The media just do not understand Trump or his supporters at all. Not one bit.

On the C-Span video one overly enthusiastic man was heard saying in the background "I'd die for him, I really would."

48 posted on 10/04/2020 5:10:54 PM PDT by CedarDave (NM's oil patch needs fracking; large signs here saying: "Vote Trump 2020. Your job depends on it.")
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To: CedarDave

What Trump really got was that we were there for him. I took mrs. jimfree back out (we had been there earlier 6a to 10a) for the 5:00 prayer service. Just before the service the traffic stopped as police cleared Wisconsin Avenue. The crowd quieted a bit in anticipation. A few minutes later, the motorcade.


49 posted on 10/04/2020 5:11:13 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: funfan
The only way Biden wins is by cheating and other nefarious things

Yup, he has no originality (college plagiarist), he's a foreign aid thief (Ukraine kickbacks), has perverse morals (sniffing), he lies about just about everything, even this "plague" ... in being (fraudulently) elected he'd be Commander of Thieves, Plaguerist Biden.

50 posted on 10/04/2020 5:11:49 PM PDT by Tellurian (Liberty and Justice for All)
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To: CedarDave

AP trashes_________________________________(put latest Trump malfeasance here)


51 posted on 10/04/2020 5:12:56 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: gas_dr

The MSM are scum. They purposely included the term “attending” physician, hoping to fool people into thinking he was caring for the President. when they knew he wasn’t.


52 posted on 10/04/2020 5:12:57 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: CedarDave

I was there. I traveled from Texas to join the crowd outside the hospital. I appreciated him waving his appreciation to me. This doctor should not comment on what he doesn’t know.

I was down the street from the main rally and police were holding everyone in place for the set up and drive around, but the police didn’t know what was going to happen. Some bitchy news person kept trying to talk her way past the blockade, insisting that the lady cop should let her past even though she didn’t have her press pass on her. She said something about not carrying the pass with her because it was dangerous. ??? if she had just shut up, been alert to what was happening, she could have caught some good footage on her phone. I told her to relax, that something was about to happen, and it would be over soon. Anyway, I was very excited to see the President.


53 posted on 10/04/2020 5:13:24 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: KittyKares; CedarDave; Interesting Times

Breaking news: Wuhan virus can penetrate the armor plate and armor glass of the President’s sedan!


54 posted on 10/04/2020 5:13:59 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: CedarDave

Dr Phillips is a horse’s butt. Heck, I’ve got horses and their butts are positively admirable compared to this whining POS pansy Doctor. I’d take the chance of a car ride with Trump in a heartbeat and I’m over 60!


55 posted on 10/04/2020 5:14:32 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: CedarDave

Total hysterics by yet another liberal on the government payroll.


56 posted on 10/04/2020 5:15:26 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: norcal joe

I dont disagree. The epic meltdown on CNN is actually funny. The pearl clutching and millennial snowflakes cannot disguise their disgust and hatred that PDJT hasn’t had the courtesy to just die and that he came out of the hospital.

And that he doesnt care about the secret service because he is exposing them. Its quite funny.


57 posted on 10/04/2020 5:15:52 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: CedarDave

They just cannot believe the pandemic hoax is evaporating before their very eyes.


58 posted on 10/04/2020 5:16:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Elections have consequences. We won, you lost. Get over it." --Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: KittyKares

Most of the young doctors ARE leftists because that’s who the teaching docs are choosing to let it. They do less now too. Insurance companies won’t even let PCPs remove a small mole. The insurance company makes more money if they have to go to the dermatologist! So everyone has to be referred now. It’s a ridiculous waste of money, but that’s more money in the pockets of instance companies. The need to be reined in!


59 posted on 10/04/2020 5:16:14 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: CedarDave

The media said it was a body double so they need to stick to thier own conspiracies!


60 posted on 10/04/2020 5:16:26 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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