Trump hacking up a lung on the phone with Sean Hannity

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Max Burns @themaxburns 2m
President Trump again coughing his way through this totally unchained conversation with Sean Hannity.

He's hacking up a lung on the phone! Who thought this was a good idea?

twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1314384425971585025

Link to tweet

[bullimiami]

1. Dumbass. Wtf is oscillated the mic? That's f'ing stupid.

[JoeOtterbein]

4. +1000!

Hahahahhaaa!

[Claustrum]

5. I think there was some mic problem that made the sound weird at the debate stage.

But it had no affect on the tv audience and they have been going on and on about it being a Hillary plot ever since.

[bullimiami]

20. Feedback on stage? So what. I thought he's a big showman. Shit happens all the time.

[Claustrum]

21. You know he is a whiny crybaby. I believe it was fixed quickly.

But he used it as a CT against Hillary and his base (and Fox News) loved it. They always want to be the victim.

Just listen to the host, he knew what Trump was talking about because Trump had complained to them ever since after the first debate in 2016.

[cstanleytech]

41. Probably a plot that also involves a pizza restaurant in some way as well.

[moonscape]

10. No clue what he meant and found this

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/12/trump-renews-unfounded-claim-on-debate-mic/

Nobody apologized. Of course.

[Dopers_Greed]

23. I bet they called him "Sir" when they apologized

[cstanleytech]

38. Code for "Rather than accept responsibility I need to shift the blame".

[George II]

2. He'll be back in the hospital before he holds his first rally.

[sheshe2]

13. Most likely.

Do they have a VP suite at Walter Reed? Pinkeye can join him.

[wnylib]

25. Let's hope so. At least then he won't be

spreading virus at campaign rallies.

[BunnyMcGee]

3. It's OK if he coughs on a televised call

so long as we can hear the THUD when he hits the floor, gasping for breath.

[BainsBane]

6. he barely coughed

That's hardly coughing up a lung. Exaggerating things for the sake of it is ridiculous.

[Claustrum]

9. I agree. But at the same time, he hasn't fully recovered as the doctor claimed as well.

[wnylib]

27. I agree. But BBC Overnight is reporting

that there was noticeable coughing, so that he left the call for a few moments and then returned, excusing himself for the interruption.

I didn't hear the call, just the short part in the tweet. But from the BBC it sounds like it was more than the brief, light cough we just heard.

[BainsBane]

29. The video doesn't capture that

[LeftInTX]

52. I listened to the entire call and barely noticed anything

Someone needs to tell me that he coughed and then I hear it.

It sounds like he might have a tickle....

[DeminPennswoods]

33. In an earlier Fox interview, you

could clearly hear the congestion when he talked. Maybe it's a case of "sounds worse than it is" like happens when one is near the end of a cold or flu, but it was obvlous he was or is still sick.

[forgotmylogin]

36. He hit the mute button.

I work telephone customer service, that slight pause after he choked could very well have been a cough break. I do it all the time.

[cwydro]

49. Thanks for the heads up.

Saves me clicking to hear the buffoon.

[Blue Owl]

7. Donald "Iron Lung" Trump

n/t

[dixiechiken1]

8. They "oscillated his mic"...???

I know that's not the point of the post but I don't understand what he's talking about. (Yeah, I know...) Is that a thing? Can someone with more technical knowledge explain what this means?

[Claustrum]

11. I remember there was a mic problem that made his mic sound weird at the debate stage,

but it had no affect on the tv audience. Some kind of oscillation problem that only affected the sound at the debate hall. But they said it's a Hillary plot ever since.

[dixiechiken1]

16. Well... good thing "they" apologized then. (/rolleyes)

Thanks, Claustrum!

[Claustrum]

17. I don't even think "they" apologized. The engineers fixed the mic problem, it happens all the time.

Trump has to make up the apology to bolster his claim. He does it all the time.

[alphafemale]

14. Feedback would be my best guess.

Certainly was not on TV.

Maybe a sound check?

[haele]

19. He thinks they induced playback?

Don't know why he used the term oscillate the mic though. To make it sound as though someone had difficulty breathing or coughing is not something you would do with the usual tuner/modulator setup that studio mics typically use. Run a voice track through a sound-board, you should easily be able to tweak normal breathing into a wheeze or cough.
But it's not something the White House communications folks would do, they're military, not a group of A/V club interns who would be willing to burn bridges on their disgruntled way out.

Haele

[Midnight Writer]

24. He means to say "modulate". He has brought this up before. He is a senile man rambling on.

[helpisontheway]

12. Despise him but that was a mild cough. Still need to keep his

Infectious ass in quarantine.

[BootinUp]

15. he sounds terrible...thats my 10 second diagnosis. the full minute costs

extra cause then i have to listen to little hands longer.

[Initech]

18. Someone needs to take Fox News away from him!

He's an addict - he can't help but go on every show every day and right now his addiction is literally killing him. Someone at least needs to hold an intervention.

[Ms. Toad]

22. Coughing up a lung?

I used to cough up lungs every time I had a cold. Everyone who heard me offered to drive me to the ER. . . . in comparison, Trump barely cleared his throat.

[W_HAMILTON]

28. You didn't hear him cough because he apparently put the phone on mute once he started.

[Ms. Toad]

30. And you have some secret knowledge of what happened when the phone was on mute?

Not to mention that coughing up a long takes considerably longer than the brief gap in conversation (which seemed noisy enough to me that I don't believe it was on mute).

[W_HAMILTON]

31. Feel free to think whatever you want.

I've had COVID with a cough and most certainly could have cleared my cough in the dead air time where he put the phone on mute, but you do you!

[Ms. Toad]

32. I have regularly coughed up lungs (the allegation in the OP)

That takes far longer than the dead air - whether it was on mute or not and he was just trying to stife a cough.

It sounded to me like he coughed a single time, then tried to stifle the next (or was taking a drink of water). That's not coughing up a lung. It's a mild cough.

[BainsBane]

51. Seriously

I cough worse than that, and I’m not even sick.

[wnylib]

34. BBC says he started coughing, then

interrupted the call and returned when he was able to talk, excusing himself for the interruption. Don't know if that was a separate incident from what is in the video or what their source is.

[Ms. Toad]

35. On the video,

there was a single cough, some muffled sounds, and then he was back speaking. I don't recalll an apology for the interruption.

[wnylib]

40. Neither do I. But the video does not

cover the entire call, either. So, a separate incident on the call not captured in the video? Don't know. I'm just reporting on what the BBC said.'

[Ms. Toad]

42. I've watched several snippets - each labeled with a similar flag about coughing

none show more than this one.

[wnylib]

45. Read farther down the thread where another post

from someone who listened to the whole call says there was a lot of coughing besides what is in the clip.

[smirkymonkey]

26. Keep in mind that he is still hopped up on steroids.

I think and hope that he is dying a slow, miserable death from Covid. I will be amazed if he survives this.

[wnylib]

37. With the meds and care available to him,

I think there's a good chance that he will survive. But, due to his age and his delay in getting treatment while he was out spreading the virus, I think there is also a good
chance that he will have some serious damage.

[BamaRefugee]

39. I don't get it. That's NOTHING. But I listened to the call, he really DID cough a lot,why

Did they choose this clip, there were way worse moments?

[wnylib]

43. I suspected that there were worse moments,

based on BBC reporting. Thanks for confirming that. I did not hear the call.

[BamaRefugee]

46. I had to force myself to actually put FOX on my channel list but Cuomo on CNN

said something like “a superspreader is on another network right now” and I correctly guessed he was talking about trump on Fox.
It was that kind of sound from trump that makes YOU feel like you need to clear YOUR throat, even though you’re fine.
But it was never “coughing up a lung”, just sounded raspy and phlegmy and nasty.

[wnylib]

47. In the OP clip, I thought I heard a slight

slurring on a couple words. Not as obvious as he has done other times, though. Don't recall now the exact words, only that they had an "s" sound in them.

[BamaRefugee]

50. I couldn't stand to listen to the whole thing but he was having no trouble airing

His grievances loud and clear.
Sounded like was spitting into something though, and that’s on the posted clip too.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

44. With his health declining and him taking steroids...

They have the football out of his control, right?

[wnylib]

48. Ojala.

[marlakay]

53. I don't feel any better about

Pence having it...