Today, Trump decided that he has had enough with be cooped up in his hospital room. Mind you, his room is a private suite designed for the President to be able to work and move about, so it is not as if he is confined to bed. But, of course, Trump’s fragile ego can only go so long before he needs to feel the adulation of the demented zombies who love him.
Donny decided that he needed to be close to his supporters and let them know that he loves that they love him. This meant that he entered an SUV to do a drive-by so they could see him. Video shows him waving from the window of the vehicle.
He was, in fact, wearing a mask inside the vehicle. However, it was a regular cloth mask. This is a man who supposedly has an active case of Covid-19. One, he should not be doing this. Two, why is he not, at the very least, wearing an N95 mask, which would provide at least some protection to the two Secret Service agents required to travel with him in the vehicle?
Let’s talk about the vehicle, as well. When the President travels, he does not just drive in a car bought off a dealer’s lot. No, the President is at high risk of assassination, so the vehicle must be built up for this.
First, the vehicle is armor-plated. This makes the panels bullet proof. The glass is also bullet proof. This means that the windows cannot be rolled down. But, in our modern times, this is not enough to ensure the safety of the supposed most powerful man in the world.
There are many chemical and nerve agents that can be used in an attack. To counter this, the vehicle that the President travels in is hermetically sealed. Nothing in, nothing out. This includes viruses.
Trump is wearing a cloth mask inside this hermetically sealed vehicle. He is putting two men, who are charged with protecting his life, in jeopardy of their own lives. The two Secret Service agents must now quarantine for 14 days to ensure he did not transmit the virus to them.
These men are someone’s sons. They may be husbands and fathers… brothers… To Trump, these men don’t count. They are just the help. They are there to die for him, so this is just the risk they are required to take.
The reality is, these men may get sick. These men may die. Why? So Trump can produce a little bit of political theater designed to do nothing more than assuage his massive, but fragile, ego.
This is one time I am actually hoping he is lying about something. Having contracted the virus in the first place. Sadly, I don’t think he is lying… for once in his life.