The Pozzidency of Donald J. Trump: Typhoid Donnie's Slow Hypoxic Demise **Sweat Thread** (updated 100x/minute)

Military doomsday plane is fake news…

Trump did not call Covid-19 a hoax - and other false claims

If you’ve been on social media today, you’ve probably seen many rumours floating around.

There have been false claims that the president called the virus a “hoax”, that a military “doomsday plane” was launched and even speculation - without evidence - that President Trump faked his coronavirus diagnosis.

The BBC’s Anti-Disinformation unit has investigated each of these rumours - you can find out what we know here.

But public flight data shows that E-6B Mercury flights - often called “doomsday planes” - are common, even when the president is well. In fact, they happen about every other day.

The particular plane in question has flown 19 times in the past month.

In a statement, a military spokesman confirmed the E-6B flights were part of planned missions.

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We haven’t heard a single thing from Trump all day, right?

Presumably someone is gonna start ghost writing tweets, Herman Cain style, while he’s in the hospital.

And let’s be honest, Trump will tweet from beyond the grave. His Twitter may outlive is all.

He legit may not have the energy to tweet. I’m very curious about his current setup though. Like is he getting 24 hour scrutiny from doctors, etc.

Hard to fake Trumps unique tweet style tho.

lol, what an absurd zinger. Great journalism BBC.

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Yep that seems like a suppression tactic, they want people to think its over so they dont bother showing up to the polls

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The real message from this should be “How did these WH clowns alow the President to get infected” from now on.

That’s a wildly charitable interpretation of his hoax comment.

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I mean to get sympathy and support out of this, Trump has to admit that the virus badly affected him (aka weakness) and that he was wrong. Two things that he is literally incapable of doing sincerely, and almost literally incapable of even faking.

I see coverup and denial coming, same as he has fucked up the Coronavirus response generally…

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You’re all probably unaware of the subtext for some BBC statements now that they’re threatened by a new right wing media TV channel supported by Conservatives old and new.

They’ll be bending over backwards to appear unbiased.

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I’m always down for some more partying nowadays

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1312092504901083136

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I’m old enough to remember when a bunch of prominent twitter accounts got hacked and started begging for bitcoin, and we all talked about how bad it could be if the hackers had started putting out disinformation… Like saying the President was sick.

GULP

https://mobile.twitter.com/MWatts3376/status/1311995902647828481

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https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1312078616117874689

Was she just…not gonna tell anyone about that?

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The cardiomyopathy of amphetamine is significant.

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Good to know lol.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247130744260083712

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oh shit I thought this was a current tweet for a sec and had very conflicted impressions

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