Donald Trump’s silence tonight is deafening
It’s now been more than four hours since Donald Trump was transported from Walter Reed Medical Center back to the White House, visibly gasping for breath, admittedly high on dexamethasone steroids, almost certainly suffering from pneumonia, and gleefully exposing everyone in his wake to coronavirus.
Oddly enough, apart from his staffers tweeting a video that he stumbled his way through on the White House balcony, Donald Trump has gone completely silent. That’s odd considering how loud and angry he tends to get on Twitter whenever the TV news coverage isn’t going his way – and if he was flipping the channels at all tonight, he saw that everyone but Fox thoroughly trashed him for his incoherently deranged stunt.
So is Trump too weak to tweet? Is he too weak to even watch TV? Early this morning he had a brief burst of stamina that resulted in fifteen all-caps tweets within a forty-five minute span. Was that right after he received his dexamethasone boost? Now he can’t seem to tweet anything at all tonight. Is he even conscious? Is he on oxygen? There’s no reason to believe Trump is dead, but if he were, would this whacked out White House even tell us until morning?
So here we are with no idea what’s going on with the sitting President of the United States, except that his silence tonight certainly isn’t a good sign for him. In fact it’s deafening. Donald Trump just literally bet his life by leaving the hospital to retake control of his reelection campaign, and yet four hours into that bet, he doesn’t appear to be in condition to say or do anything.
