“Steroid-Induced
Psychosis”: Donald Trump Follows Up Sunday Night Joyride With Extra-Crazy
Monday (Even for Him)
The president is on a bender.
BY BESS LEVIN
O
CTOBER 5, 2020
Capping off an insane weekend in which the White House got caught in its cover-up re: when Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19, if he was ever put on supplemental oxygen, and how serious his case is, the president of the United States decided the best thing to do while sick with a highly contagious disease was to force his Secret Service detail to drive him around Walter Reed National Military Medical Center so he could wave to his fans like the Queen of England, if the queen was an unhinged lunatic hell-bent on infecting as many people as possible with a disease that has killed more than 209,000 in the U.S alone.
While the people
responsible for protecting the president rarely, if ever, speak to the press,
Trump’s absurd P.R. stunt was apparently too much even for them, given that it
literally put their lives at risk. Speaking to the Washington Post,
current and former agents reacted with outrage
over Trump’s little trip, which he reportedly undertook because he was “bored”
in the hospital. “He’s not even pretending to care now,” one person said after
the president’s jaunt. “Where are the adults?” asked a former Secret Service
member. Acknowledging the fact that Trump deigned to wear a mask for the
drive, Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global
Health, wrote on Twitter
that the face coverings help but “they are not an impenetrable force field.” Or
as James Phillips, a professor at George Washington University
and a doctor associated with Walter Reed, put it:
Asked about the reckless
stunt that had no purpose other than to feed Trump’s ego, chief of staff Mark
Meadows, who told reporters over the weekend that the president’s
vitals were “very concerning,” basically claimed Monday that the Secret
Service was probably exposed to the president when he was taken to the
hospital, so what’s one more time?
The joyride underscored
not only the fact that the administration still isn’t taking
the coronavirus seriously, but that Trump’s mental state—questionable even in
the best of times—may be even more compromised:
And speaking of the
president’s mental state, here’s what he got up to Monday morning:
All of
which could just be Trump at his normal, i.e. crazy, baseline, or, as a doctor
specializing in emerging infections who’s testified before Congress as an
expert witness on COVID-19 surmised:
Thirteen tweets in 45 minutes-sounds like steroid induced psychosis is
setting in....