r/news • u/Orange_fury • Oct 14 '20

Title Not From Article First lady: Barron Trump positive for COVID, no symptoms

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-politics-barron-trump-8d87cdfcba2dbbf355523d59618135b9
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u/SillyWhabbit Oct 15 '20

Not giving a fuck.

Also she stated she was grateful for her medical team and Dr. Conly.

So did Melania get Regeneron too? At our expense?

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u/atomicxblue Oct 15 '20

Her legacy will be interesting. Laura Bush tried to get kids to read, Michelle Obama tried to get kids to eat healthier.. Melania doesn't care about kids in fucking cages or fucking christmas.

Our history books are going to need parental advisory stickers.

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u/habdks Oct 15 '20

You don’t think the president and First Lady should receive medical attention at our expense?

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u/drebunny Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

IMO it's not that it's unreasonable for the president+FL to receive medical care on the govt dime, it's more about emphasizing that it's taxpayer money that we are talking about so that everyone realizes the magnitude of his indifference.

So when Trump refuses to engage in/endorse even the most basic level of public disease prevention and then unsurprisingly gets sick, it is our money he is throwing away. He comes out and says "look it's no big deal, couple days in the hospital, whatever" while we picked up the ~$100k+ hospital bill and real average Americans who have been hospitalized have received personal bills of up to $400,000.