The Trump death cult

Donald Trump does not seem to appreciate nor care that as the “Dear Leader” of a personality cult, his mindless sycophant cult members hang on his every word. And when he gives “advice” on miracle cures for the coronavirus, these damn fools listen to him.

After Trump touted the anti-malaria drug chloroquine as a coronavirus treatment, an Arizona couple took chloroquine phosphate (used to clean fish tanks). Arizona man dies, wife ill after taking drug touted as virus treatment: “Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure”.

Last week Trump “mused” (Dr. Deborah Birx’s term) that injecting household cleaning supplies like bleach and Lysol, which kills the coronavirus “in a minute,” is something that maybe doctors should explore. Dr. Birx’s “WTF do I say to that?” look says it all.

Makers of household cleaners on Friday took the unusual step of urging people not to drink or inject their products. Disinfectant Makers Steer Consumers Away From Trump’s Coronavirus Comments. The EPA issued a guidance “to provide critical information on surface disinfectant products that can be used to protect the health of all Americans throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency.” EPA provides critical information to the American public about safe disinfectant use. Media public service announcements warned people “do not ingest household cleaning products.”

Normal people would pay attention to such warnings and use common sense, but cult followers are not normal people. They are missing a few screws.

So this happens. On Monday, The Wichita Eagle reported that a man in Kansas drank a household cleaning product not long after President Donald Trump’s speech last week asking scientists to look into the possibility of injecting disinfectant into the body to treat coronavirus.

“Lee Norman, the state health officer, said the head of the Kansas Poison Control Center reported a more than 40 percent increase in cleaning chemical cases,” reported Jonathan Shorman and Francesca Chambers. “‘Including a fellow over the weekend who drank a product because of the advice he’d received,’ Norman said during a news conference Monday.”

He obviously didn’t get Trump’s “sarcasm.”

Poison control centers in a number of states have reported a rise in calls about exposure to household cleaners since President Trump made remarks suggesting that disinfectants should be looked into as a possible treatment for the coronavirus. Calls to poison control centers spike after Trump disinfectant comments.

The personality cult of Donald Trump is now a death cult. Cult Experts Warn That Trumpism Is Starting to Look Awfully Familiar; Michael Tomasky: Trump’s Culture Warriors Are a Literal Death Cult Now. Mike Lofgren: The GOP Has Become a Death Cult.

Just as Trump does not accept any responsibility for his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump Claims No Responsibility for a Spike in Poison Control Calls After Bonkers Bleach Remarks:

President Trump on Monday said he claims no responsibility for the spike in calls to poison control centers after he suggested last week that ingesting disinfectants could be used as a coronavirus cure. When asked about the rise in calls specifically related to household cleaners, Trump responded: “I can’t imagine why.”

“Who, me?”

Over the course of two decades, Trump was a guest on the Howard Stern radio show about two dozen times. Donald Trump – The Howard Stern Interviews 1993-2015. On Monday, Howard Stern Urged Trump Fans to All Drink Bleach Together and ‘Drop Dead’:

Howard Stern returned to his SiriusXM show after a week-long break on Monday. And he had a lot to say about President Trump’s recent suggestion that injecting disinfectant might just be the coronavirus cure Americans have been waiting for.

“I would love it if Donald would get on TV and take an injection of Clorox and let’s see if his theory works,” Stern told listeners on Monday, as first reported by the New York Daily News. “Hold a big rally, say fuck this coronavirus, with all of his followers, and let them hug each other and kiss each other and have a big rally.”

His co-host Robin Quivers chimed in with, “A big cocktail of disinfectant.”

“Yeah, and all take disinfectant and all drop dead,” Stern added.

After a caller expressed discomfort over Stern’s “political” stance, the host said, “I don’t recognize any of this as being Republican, I don’t recognize it as being anything political. I see it as insanity. I don’t know what is going on there, but I don’t have a good feeling.”

Perhaps not coincidentally, the host used the same show to formally endorse Joe Biden for president.

“I am all-in on Joe Biden,” Stern declared. “You see the wall that’s right next to you, I’ll vote for the wall over a guy who tells me that I should pour Clorox into my mouth. Listen, I think we are in deep shit. I think we could have been ahead of this curve.”

Being a provocative “shock jock” is Howard Stern’s shtick. But what he suggested is not entirely out of the realm of possibility.

If Donald Trump decided to go all Jim Jones at one of his Nuremberg-style MAGA cult rallies by distributing a glass of Kool-aid laced with bleach or Lysol and told his cult followers to drink it as a cure for the coronavirus, does anyone doubt for a moment that these damn fools would do as they are told?

Let’s hope that this theory is never actually put to the test.

But the fact that we have to seriously consider the possibility with people poisoning themselves after listening to Donald Trump should shock the conscience into realizing the nightmare that we are living.