Was Dr. Jackson's comment about Trump living to 200...

[LuckyCharms]

a signal that he is essentially being held hostage by his commander in chief?

I'm fixated on that comment for some reason.

Also...Good genes, God made him that way...

Why would a previously respected doctor go up there and destroy his credibility like that?

Did he succumb to Trump's orders and start throwing out these random wild statements to let people know that everything he was saying is bullshit?

Just a thought I had.

[rzemanfl]

1. He should have blinked in Morse code. n/t

[lunasun]

2. Wha?? You don't believe it? That's shameful and wrong

[maxrandb]

3. I think it means that Donnie Short Fingers

can easily be given 200 years in Federal Prison and serve his entire sentence

[Cha]

4. He's a vampire.. may live longer

[Upthevibe]

5. Thank you for this post! I've been scratching my head about this since

it happened. I couldn't believe how all of that went down. I just found it bizarre the way he was acting. It was like he was was a cheerleader at a dt rally. I said out loud "something is very wrong here." I would've thought that a Dr. would have been toned down, cited the numbers as far as blood pressure goes (and the like), and maybe answered a few questions. I told the friend who I was watching it with that I wondered if the Dr. had been threatened or something. I'm also surprised that there aren't more people talking about it.....

[ProudLib72]

6. tRump could have told him that, unless he lied, he would get fired

lose his license and be sued for slander. He's a bully, and that's the way bullies force others to do their bidding. Honestly, if I were Dr. Jackson, I would be thinking about how Donnie is about to die and I could just wait a couple of months before I got to tell everyone the real results.

[doc03]

7. I can't imagine how any doctor could make a statement that stupid.

Nobody ever lived to 200 and he says Trump could, that's f---g crazy. They must hypnotize these people or drug them.

[former9thward]

8. He was joking around with the reporters.

Anyone with an IQ above 1 could see that. Some people were born without a sense of humor....

[doc03]

10. I never saw his news conference just what I have read on DU. I thought

he was serious. That is the kind of stuff we have been conditioned to hear from the WH.

[former9thward]

13. Do you really think President Obama would have appointed someone WH doctor

who thinks people can live to 200? Why would he have done that?

[FSogol]

15. Obama didn't appoint him. n/t

[former9thward]

17. Except he did.

Ronny Lynn Jackson (born May 4, 1967) is an American medical doctor and United States Navy admiral who is currently serving as Physician to the President. First appointed on July 25, 2013, by Barack Obama, he was retained by Donald Trump after his election in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny_Jackson

Again, if you believe that Dr. Jackson seriously believes humans can live to 200 and was not joking why did President Obama appoint such a person?

[FSogol]

20. I read that he served as WH physician for the Bush admin too.

I know, the WH allergist was the same for W and the Obamas.

[LuckyCharms]

12. Wasn't especially funny, considering the reporters seemed to be struggling

to make sense of the whole thing.

[FSogol]

16. Why was he talking a mile a minute. He seemed more like a tweeker than a doctor. n/t

[former9thward]

18. He was trying to answer a swarm of reporters

who were rudely shouting questions on top of one another.

If he is a tweeker why did President Obama appoint him as his personal doctor?

[Kingofalldems]

21. As always. Never fails.

[former9thward]

25. Did you look in a mirror again?

[treestar]

19. Clearly he was not serious but seems not the time for a joke

Especially one that lame.

[Ilsa]

9. He sounded almost like the way Bornstein's letter read.

Ridiculous.

[delisen]

11. The comment about good genes ....

flashbacks of 20th century eugenics movements.

[FSogol]

14. "Good genes" is a racist dog whistle to the white supremacists. Kelly obviously

dictated everything to Jackson. I doubt Jackson did more than shake hands with Trumpy.

We'll know for sure in a few years when the tell-all books come out.

[Kingofalldems]

22. What freaking doctor ever uses the term 'good genes'?

Good catch. My theory is he was told if he played ball he would get a promotion, if not he would get busted and maybe drilled out of the Navy.

[smirkymonkey]

23. I agree that it's a racist dog whistle.

But look at the guy! He obviously doesn't have good genes. Look at his hair, his eyes, his skin, his hands. Look at his moronic children! Look at how stupid they all are.

He is taking a page from Hitler's playbook and trying to make himself and his white supremacist followers believe that they are genetically superior to other races and ethnicities. Have you ever seen a Trump rally? It's very clear that they are superior to NOBODY!

[L. Coyote]

24. Trump is a very stable Aryan.

[dalton99a]

31. The fittest president ever

[Irish_Dem]

26. Con artists seduce, charm, bully, threaten others to get their way.

They also get others to commit some crimes or wrong doing to hold over their head.
Or make big promises...

Some day there may be articles about how Trump got so many people to lie for him and ruin their reputations and careers.

[DonViejo]

27. He's the Scaramucci of the Medical profession...

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Turbineguy]

28. This is something

that narcissists do. They make people devote themselves. Trump sucked Jackson's brain out. I'm sure there's a proper clinical word for it.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Love bombing/gaslighting/seduction/smear campaigns/triangulation/chaos/threats/promises:

Causes the victims of the narcissist to experience severe damage to their own egos, self confidence, and sense of self. Their own needs and wants are no longer important, they live only for the narcissistic partner. They exist only to prop up the narcissist and feed his ego.

Not a clinical term, but getting their "brains sucked out" describes it well.
I would add that it is not only the brain, but their heart and soul are sucked out too.

[Turbineguy]

30. I wonder if Dr. Jackson

has tumbled to his predicament. I hope for him he has. He's a decent human being and doesn't deserve this.

[Irish_Dem]

32. He appears to be under Trump's spell. Very unprofessional and unethical in his

press conference. Stating Trump is in excellent health when the lab reports he himself ran on the patient show otherwise. Letting Trump pick out his own dementia screening tool which he could practice ahead of time. All the hyperbole about how he sees Trump three times a day and Trump is so smart, so sharp, so with it...

Trump has sucked the brains out of this doc.