As the United States passed the 200,000 death milestone, Trump told a rally that the coronavirus affects “virtually nobody.”
200,000 nobodies.
This on the same day that CNN marked the death of a 28-year-old medical resident in Houston who caught the virus while working with those who had it.
Another nobody.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
200,000 American flags are now on the National Mall, thanks to volunteers who put them there. The flags memorialize, if briefly, the “nobodies” that Trump does not care about.
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In any previous campaign, this characteristically colossally insensitive remark would have been a “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe”-level gaffe. Now it’s just another maskless day at a miniature Nuremberg rally.
There’s a chance that T***p will be indicted for tax fraud by the Manhattan DA. Perhaps some DA or state AG can nail him for mass murder by depraved indifference as well.
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just another maskless day at a miniature Nuremberg rally
perfectly said
And yes, isn’t there are tort there? His knowing about the dangerousness of the virus but intentionally playing it down? Intentionally causing the deaths of tens of thousands?
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In reality, Trump is a “nobody”. He is only “somebody” in his own worthless narcissistic mind and in the eyes of those who want something from him. When Trump is voted out of office he will become that “nobody” that will be quickly forgotten except in history books written by intelligent authors who will rank him as the worse person to ever serve as the President of the United States.
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Trump never “served.”
He ruled.
He golfed.
He tweeted.
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Wasn’t Trump talking about young people (i.e. school-aged)?
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In any context, the diminishment of being labeled a nobody is crushing. I know of a high school student who is awaiting a heart transplant. His parents have been told that Covid would be devastating for him. His father was furloughed due to Covid and lost his insurance. If the young man survives his operation, he will have the pre-existing condition that affects his ability to get medical insurance.
The clergy and people who elect GOP knowing that they relegate the weak to “nobody” status, lack empathy and humanity.
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I don’t think the statement that “virtually no young people” die from Covid is an assertion that labeled young people who do die from Covid “nobodies.” It’s just an assertion that it is very rare for someone in that age group to die from Covid.
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Your summary is much too eloquent and nuanced for Trump to have said. We can agree?
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The GOP wants to eliminate health insurance for people with pre-existing conditions. The Trump-dominated Supreme Court seems certain to declare Obamacare, which protects these people. Trump says he has a great health plan but has never offered it or described it. At least 20 million people will lose coverage if ACA is tossed out.
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The young man who needs a heart transplant reminds me of the 2002 Denzel Washington film, ” ‘John Q’, The film tells the story of John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington), a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and finds out he is unable to receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it, before he decides to hold up the hospital and force them to do it.”
Eighteen years later and the best we could come up with was the ACA and the GOP is hell-bent on killing it off. We should have had universal health care decades ago but hey, this is the USA, USA, we don’t want no stinking socialism thingy. It’s so sad and so pathetic but here we are with Trump and a far right wing SCOTUS that is getting more right wing by the moment. And yes, it has to be pointed out that Obama didn’t have the guts to push for true universal health care.
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No, FLERP! I watched it three times. He said COVID kills elderly people with underlying health conditions. Other than that unimportant group, “virtually nobody” has been harmed by COVID.
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Flerp, he said, in this order:
that it was mostly elderly people who had existing conditions
that almost no one under 18 died of it
And then he said, “In some states there are thousands of people. . . . It affects nobody. Nobody. Virtually nobody.”
This is the guy who said a couple days ago that you can tell that Biden is not all there because he often doesn’t finish his sentences. But that, of course, is a trademark of Trump’s speech, which I refer to as Toddlerian.
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Trump is the master of unfinished sentences.
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Nobody is Affected
Nobody is affected
And nobody ain’t a lot
And nobody ain’t elected
So nobody matters not
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yup
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The Tomb of the Unknown Nobody
With Nobody in the tomb
Theres really lots of room
For many nobodies more
It’s what the tomb is for
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Yes, Trump and the GOP want to get rid of Obamacare. Trump claims to have a great health plan. Trump does not have the ability to plan ahead. He only reacts to situations on a daily knee jerk basis. Trump and the GOP do not have any health care plan. If they did it would be out for all to see and read. If he is re-elected a health care plan will never been seen for another four years.
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Virtually Nobody is Infected
Coronavirus hoax :
A virtual effect
To virtually infect
The virus on the folks
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Some “hoax!” Tell that to the families of over 200,000 people that lost their lives. There are many more that may have long term damage to heart, lungs, brain and other organs.
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One thing of which i am sure, tRump is unaware of the ambiguity of The phrase “virtually nobody.”
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My own son has it now. I guess he’s a “nobody” too….
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impossible. Trump said only people who are elderly with underlying health issues are at risk
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Trump must be relocated to a prision cell on Riker’s Island where DT becames a nobody like he doesn’t exist anymore.
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Trump stopped at a farm for a campaign photo op and had his picture taken with some pigs. But then his people argued about how to caption it. Trump with pigs? No. Pigs around Trump? No. Then they hit upon it: Donald Trump, third from the left.
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Shame on our nation.
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So now we have people, according to Trump, who have died from COVID-19 and their families are “no bodies”. This goes right along with all the men and women who are “losers and suckers” for serving in this nation’s military. Guess the “losers and suckers” are “no bodies” too.
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You need to understand Trump. He admires strong men (fascists) and billionaires. Everyone else is a sucker or a loser. He has contempt for his base. I wish they knew how much he despises them.
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We are all nobodies.
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For months, I forced myself to watch Trump’s speeches so I could then satirize them. It was a sort of game that I enjoyed for a time, imitating his Toddlerian idiolect.
I tried to watch the Jabba the Trump excrescence in Pennsylvania tonight. But I couldn’t. I just can’t do it anymore. This man (I use the term loosely) is so utterly revolting and ignorant and cruel and stupid and dangerous. He’s like an unimaginative, poorly drawn, attempted parody of a comic book villain. Lex Trumptor. The Joker in the Orange clown makeup.
That I live in a country in which an entire political party has debased itself to follow this subhuman slavishly utterly sickens me.
And that our intelligence services did not long ago show the world, definitively, how traitorous he is makes it impossible, now, for me to use the term “intelligence” to speak of them without a rueful laugh.
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I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?… How dreary to be somebody…
Said Donald Trump never.
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ah– beat me to the punch. But you missed the part that seems to be referring directly to it45:
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one’s name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
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