Donald Trump is a sociopath whose tepid response to the coronavirus helped contribute to the countless numbers of lives that were and continue to be lost in the United States due to the deadly pandemic.
Over the weekend, Trump’s response and attitude towards the virus took another deranged twist Sunday when the President thought it would be a great idea to hop into his car and feed his own ego to wave to his supporters who gathered outside the Walter Reed Medical Center. All of this while Trump exposes two secret service agents while he confronts his own mortality as he fights this deadly disease himself as a 74-year-old, morbidly obese white male.
The move by Trump was met with massive amounts of condemnation, including that from Dr. James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University, who was an attending physician at Walter Reed and referred to Trump’s reckless stunt as “political theatre”.
Dr. Phillips continued commenting in reference to the vehicle that the two secret service agents where locked in with a COVID-19 positive patient:
Furthermore, in an interview with the New York Times Sunday night, Dr. Phillips raised the question as to whether the President was giving improper and inane orders to doctors and the rest of the medical staff at Walter Reed for the sake of politics.
While pointing out that no other coronavirus patient in this stage of their treatment would be permitted to leave isolation at the hospital stated, “At what point does the physician-patient relationship end, and does the commander in chief and subordinate relationship begin, and were those doctors ordered to allow this to happen?”
Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University’s Milken School of Public Health, also tweeted out that if a patient of hers with a contagious illness left quarantine to become a danger to themselves and others she would order them restrained with a “psychiatric evaluation” to follow “to examine his decision-making capacity.”
