{"id":46967,"date":"2020-10-05T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46967"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:19:27","slug":"teaching-old-dogs-trump-has-learned-nothing-from-having-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46967","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Old Dogs? Trump Has Learned Nothing From Having COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surreal Sci-Fi adventure that American is presently stumbling through took another bizarre plot twist on Friday when Donald Trump revealed that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. He subsequently took up residency in the presidential suites of Walter Reed Medical Center. And for the next couple days he pretended that nothing was wrong as his <em>&#8220;doctors&#8221;<\/em> brazenly lied to the press.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-grimmace-red.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Red Face\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While on his COVID-cation, Trump was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Trump's Reality TV Hospital Video and Dwindling Tweetery Raise More Questions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>. He posted only 14 tweets total in three days. His daily average during September was 55 tweets. Meanwhile, Fox News was promoting Trump&#8217;s ordeal <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46941\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">as a sort of crucifixon<\/a><\/strong> because, as one Foxie said, <em>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing it for us.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After less than 72 hours Trump announced that he would be returning to the White House where he can continue infecting the rest of his staff, along with his other primary duties: watching Fox News and tweeting. For the record, the long list of Trump associates already admitting their positive diagnoses <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1313145600918003712\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">can be found here<\/a><\/strong>. But we can expect that list to grow. In the meantime, Trump posted this message on Twitter regarding his discharge from the hospital:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don\u2019t be afraid of Covid. Don\u2019t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs &amp; knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1313186529058136070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So the lesson that Trump has learned from his still ongoing battle with a deadly virus is that people need not be afraid of it. He is once again giving de facto encouragement for people to go out without face masks or social distancing. He&#8217;s even claiming that his post-COVID health is better than it was twenty years ago. Some people will conclude that it&#8217;s therefore beneficial to get the disease. At the same time, Trump is presuming that all Americans have an army of doctors to cater to every sneeze and bone spur in their private home hospital quarters. And eventually <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46760\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ll develop a <em>&#8220;herd mentality,&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> after a mere two million more people die.<\/p>\n<p>These are not lessons that any cognitively stable person would derive from facing a serious illness and potential death. But in <em>Trump World<\/em> these views are universal. His communications director, Erin Perrine, appeared on Fox News Monday and claimed that Trump&#8217;s COVID encounter made him better able to address the pandemic. <em>&#8220;He has experience, now, fighting the coronavirus as an individual,&#8221;<\/em> Perrine said. <em>&#8220;Those firsthand experiences &#8211; Joe Biden, he doesn\u2019t have those.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;He has experience now fighting the coronavirus &#8230; those first-hand experiences, Joe Biden doesn&#39;t have those&quot; &#8212; Trump campaign spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMPerrine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ErinMPerrine<\/a> attacks Joe Biden for not getting coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wRMGOVUpc1\">pic.twitter.com\/wRMGOVUpc1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1313147203934916611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So in a perverse reversal of logic, Perrine is attacking Biden for not having contracted the virus. The Trumpian view is that being able to maintain one&#8217;s health during a international pandemic is sign of deficiency and weakness. Only those who are <em>&#8220;smart&#8221;<\/em> enough to get sick can be trusted to lead.<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself claimed to have <em>&#8220;learned a lot about COVID&#8221;<\/em> But if all he has learned is to tell others that they shouldn&#8217;t be afraid of a virus that has already killed more than 210,000 people, it&#8217;s a stretch to call that education. So <em>&#8220;Don\u2019t be afraid of Covid [and] Don\u2019t let it dominate your life.&#8221;<\/em> After all, if Trump, with his access to top-notch socialized medical care, can get through this (which he has not yet), then so can you. Even though he&#8217;s currently suing to eliminate healthcare entirely for millions of Americans who are still at risk. MAGA (Make America Grieve Again).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surreal Sci-Fi adventure that American is presently stumbling through took another bizarre plot twist on Friday when Donald Trump revealed that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. He subsequently took up residency in the presidential suites of Walter Reed Medical Center. And for the next couple days he pretended that nothing was wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[1397,554,1407,33,377],"class_list":["post-46967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-erin-perrine","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-grimmace-red.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cdx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46053,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46053","url_meta":{"origin":46967,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Lets Trump Get Away with Dangerous Lies About the Coronavirus","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/28\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week Donald Trump announced that he would be reviving his Coronavirus Task force Briefings (aka Trump reelection campaign photo-ops). 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