Jon Meacham joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss previous examples of presidents falling ill or becoming incapacitated while in office, including George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, as well as the approach the White House has often taken to downplay or even cover up those ailments, with Meacham saying "that history tells you to treat medical reports from the white house as, at best, incomplete." Aired on 10/02/2020.
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Jon Meacham: History Says To Treat Medical Reports From The WH As 'Incomplete' At Best | MSNBC
Lol….he just called this administration anything but transparent…ain’t that the truth!
Trump is in the highest risk categories too. Old, overweight, and low income
@j law that’s very ignorant of you
Too funny😆
@Nathanael Smith Nancy Pelosi would take over if something happens to Trump or Pence
LOL
@Nathanael Smith that would be Nancy Pelosi
He has the virus like he had bone spurs.
@Don Hardcastle JUST GO FK YOURSELF MORON
I bet he gets someone else’s bone spur when they throw him in prison
@TrollhAuse for what?
Getting a prosecutor fired in another Country for $1B to protect his crooked crackhead son?
…….oh wait………………………
@Don Hardcastleloves the c*ck.
LOL.
He is probably faking it. I doubt he has it. He lies so much I can’t believe him or anyone that works for him.
👻👻👻👻
Don’t worry, those most likely to succumb to the symptoms of Covid are people who are over 70 and have underlying conditions such as morbid obesity or mini strokes.
@Bunker King….that was slick!😉
@Micelf Mee agreed. If he dies it will really screw up the election. Maybe he has mild symptoms, then a relapse on Nov 4, then medically induced coma and on a ventilator, wakes up Jan 22 – he’s not president anymore and is arrested for tax evasion and money laundering. Handcuffed to his hospital bed
@Micelf Mee Oh sweetie, we all want that and pigs fly…aren’t we over the this boring fat little man and let us quit addressing him and go on with life without him.
Those weren’t mini strokes Mr. King, that medical visit was for an early physical!
You forgot people with dementia so he has a battle ahead of him
I do not believe anything that comes out of this White House, This could be a fake news.
@WestCoast Cheesehead Did you receive your autographed poster of Mitch McConnell in his extremely revealing Hawaiian print bikini yet?
Or are you in the bathroom with it right now?
@John Dharma now your projecting lol.
@Patricia Vyce don’t forget to change the kitty litter.
@WestCoast Cheesehead And now once again, you are exposing that you are a complete Dumb F**k!
@Stephanie Adams He could join his friend Jeffrey Epstein…….
The White House doctor said he got the information, not that he conducted the diagnosis.
So, “Someone told me, and as I’m a Republican who puts politics before country, I’m going to put my name to it. Just don’t scrutinize my words too closely.”
Trump Playbook is all too simple – “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” – Joseph Goebbels
THAT comes from Obuttfucker and the Hildabeast……
nice one
@Don Hardcastle No, stick to the nast primitive racist bully who wears thick orange make up. The draft dodging, tax evading, handicapped mocking, lying, stealing snake oil con man. With the fake cancer foundation and fake university! Stick to that turd and look around! WORST period in American history. Country in shambles. NeoFascists support this wannabe dictator. Red Hats are now Brown shirts.
@kerry1111111 no bil cannot dols a candle to con-clown. Least bill gave us a great econmy after THAT gop pres before him ruined it ( much like Obama/Biden did last tiem also)
@Don Hardcastleloves the c*ck.
Trump will do anything for ” Rating “.
How can anyone trust anything from the former “People’s House”. All bets are off especially the last four years.
I demand proof before I believe he has the virus. I would not put it past the WH to put out this fake news.
Like a child, even negative attention is still attention, we’re not talking about the debate, his racist views,
his taxes today !! I would love to know how his wife got it, she can’t stand being near him. They want her quarantined so the lie doesn’t slip out of the WH !
His wife is just as foul as him, don’t be making excuses for her.
If it’s true and they have it, “I don’t care, do you?”
Playing “Sympathy for the devil” on the worlds smallest piano.
No doubt about that and do we care about her personally…not one iota.
Agreed! I think this is a bunch of bs. They are great at creating distractions.
That. More than anything is the hardest to believe but she did feign affection at the debate.
This Dr note says he was given a positive diagnosis by someone else. So he was handed something that said POS, he didn’t perform that test I bet. Who gave him the “results” Don Jr or was it hiding in Ivanka’s purse Bible?
“An administration where straightfoward truth telling is not a defining characteristic”
Mr. Meacham certainly has a gift for understatement.
Yeah that made me laugh too😄😄
Yes, nicely worded.
Trump will be just fine! Everyone knows that SOB’s live forever!
Well, that actually IS true.
They are more difficult to get rid of than roaches.
I felt that way at the 1st announcement
Trump was incapacitated from the very beginning of his presidency.
Yeah, by BS Russian collusion and the Mueller investigation. 2 1/2 years of the MSM calling his Presidency illegitimate.
Trump was incapacitated from the very beginning of his presidency.
Vaclav Majdanek. It’s kind of suspicious that with a name like yours and joining in late September that your comment would be anti tRump.
Yeah, by BS Russian collusion and the Mueller investigation. 2 1/2 years of the MSM calling his Presidency illegitimate.
here Donny, have some of this oleander snake oil. Your buddy the pillow guy sent it over.
@Peter Bills send him some Goya beans.
@Raul Morales Barack and Michael would rather have Hatians tend their beans in the rose garden. Immigrants are the Democrats “hired help”
Trump was incapacitated from the very beginning of his presidency.
@WestCoast Cheesehead I think the stench is coming from your putrefied cheesehead
I WOULD ARGUE FROM THE BEGINNING OF HIS LIFE!
@gaynor505 HE WAS HATCHED!
@Christine Sortino it’s not Trump’s fault you are overweight and lonely.
@gaynor505 it’s not Trump’s fault woman don’t pay attention to you or because you paid too much for your Don Lemon bakini poster.
And now we have a “president” who LIES about EVERYTHING so there is no way for us to actually know what’s going on in that extremely SICK W.H.
The Orange Chud has lied so much I don’t know if this is truth or lie.
I don’t care. Vote him out of office and before the SDNY Grand Jury.
I agree.
You can bet it’s a lie. Only believe it. if and when it kills him.
If he said it its most likely a lie.