"President Donald Trump in a video in front of the Oval Office posted on Wednesday promised coronavirus patients free therapeutics and painted his diagnosis as a positive development. "I want to get for you what I got, and I'm going to make it free. You're not going to pay for it. It wasn't your fault that this happened. It was China's fault," Trump said in the nearly five-minute video. Trump made a special appeal to seniors, who have abandoned him in droves in polling ahead of the quickly approaching election. "If you're in the hospital and you're feeling really bad, I think we're going to work it so that you get them and you get them free. Especially if you're a senior, we're going to get you in there quick."
Well, I am almost certain that Trump is just talking out of his ass -- much like he promised a super extra special middle class tax cut right before the 2018 midterms....but if catching COVID is what it took for him to come out in support of universal healthcare -- then I guess him catching COVID really is a blessing from God..
I have long thought that Trump is the only person who can get universal healthcare passed because most of the republicans who would oppose it will suddenly be in favor of it just because their cult leader told them to -- added to the significant amount of Democrats who already support it (like Sanders, AOC, Ilhan Omar, etc) that would be enough to get it passed....but of course the reality is -- he was just talking out of his ass, but it is interesting that when trying to pander; he chose to pander with liberal policies and not conservative ones...
Ordinarily, he lies a lot. There is no denying it. I more strongly remember when he started out discounting the impact of Covid-19, saying in was only going to effect the old and sick, and that there rest of the country should be going on with our lives, as if people over 60 did not matter to him. This video is just the latest pre-election lie. If he gets Moscow Mitch and Nancy to push legislation through this week, I would change my mind, but it ain't happening. There is nothing like a hack politician, known for lies, making promises totally out of character and against what he has projected as core principals (if he has any) of being against socialized medicine, 3 weeks before election, to give away latest experimental treatment for free, that is presently not readily available anywhere on the planet. Looks like a last desperate act to me. Bye, donnie. Go back to building hotels and bilking investors.