Trump Slammed for Downplaying the Virus Yet Again in Tweet Announcing Discharge from Walter Reed

I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020

One day America will see this tweet for the obscenity it is.

He's lying about the severity of his illness. He's lying about the seriousness of COVID-19. He's lying about his pandemic response. He's getting people killed by bearing false witness about the virus.

He is a monster. https://t.co/gREjMSe9a7
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 5, 2020

Don't be afraid of covid? Tell that to the 210,000 families who have lost loved ones. To the Black, Brown and Indigenous folks disproportionately affected. With tens of millions of jobs lost and the economy tanked. Many of us isolated for months. You're the cruelest. #votehimout https://t.co/QhM47Pa3lx
— Mandy Moore (@TheMandyMoore) October 5, 2020

In all seriousness, the President's incompetence has already gotten 200,000 killed. The consequences of this tweet will probably kill a couple thousand more.

Just bone chilling. https://t.co/uGScoBTiTt
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 5, 2020

I ain't surprised he's learned nothing and continues to down play the seriousness of this issue....I'm just very tired. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Social distance. Vote. https://t.co/I9O3S20QNV pic.twitter.com/DJuU9kkjrY
— Xander Mobus (@XanderMobusVO) October 5, 2020

Hard to imagine a more crass, insensitive or stupid tweet. No doubt the hundreds of thousands of mourning families will be overjoyed. https://t.co/nC1H0ufcae
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) October 5, 2020

If only the more than 200,000 Americans who died from Covid-19 had thought to not be afraid. If only they hadn't let their lives be dominated by ventilators & hospital stays & crushing medical bills & dying w/o being able to say goodbye to their families, you human biohazard. https://t.co/IjmRuHAU1a
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) October 5, 2020

Don't be afraid, says the guy with a team of a dozen doctors, access to experimental treatments that no one else gets, a four room hospital suite, who lives in a house with top doctors on site 24/7.

All of which is provided to him for free because he refuses to pay taxes. https://t.co/uGScoBTiTt
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 5, 2020

So everyone has the same access to experimental drugs as you so they shouldn't be afraid of covid? https://t.co/05POCKEA2F
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) October 5, 2020

“Don't be afraid of Covid," says the president who since his positive test has been hospitalized and treated with a steroid typically used for severe cases, an experimental antibody drug cocktail and a five-day course of the antiviral drug remdesivir. https://t.co/VsWsf34UE3
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 5, 2020