Trump "delighted" to help sick baby in the U,K. Draw your own conclusions.

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s pledge to help sick UK baby as millions of US kids lose coverage is a reality TV-style stunt

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trumps-pledge-to-help-sick-uk-baby-as-millions-of-us-kids-lose-coverage-is-a-reality-tv-style-stunt/



President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to help a terminally ill British baby named Charlie Gard as the infant’s story has spread on social media, Politico said Monday.

The London-born baby boy has come to international attention as his parents wage a battle to keep him on life support in spite of a chronic genetic condition that leaves him zero chance of survival. British courts ruled that with no realistic hope of a positive outcome, Charlie Gard’s life support should be withdrawn.

However, the baby’s parents have latched on to the hope of a long-shot experimental treatment in the U.S. for Charlie’s infant-onset mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. Mitochondria are like tiny batteries in animal cells that store and release energy and allow cells to function.

Charlie’s mitochondrial DNA does not replenish itself like it should, starving cells in his kidneys, muscles and brain. Brain damage sets in at an early age and the disease is typically fatal in infancy or early childhood.

Trump, Politico said, tweeted that he would be “delighted” to help the Gard family obtain the experimental treatment upon which they are hanging their hopes.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Those babies' faces say it all!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. But he doesn't care if thousands of American children die because Trumpcare

will take away their financial access to medical treatment.

And anyhow, his promise to help these people won't come to anything. He never keeps his "philanthropic" promises. I hope this family isn't expecting him to actually do anything.

[Miles Archer]

8. That's one reason why I said "draw your own conclusions"...you drew the same ones I did.

He's got a long list of people he's "helped" who were never helped.

My original title was something like "Trump uses sick U.K. baby as human shield to deflect from failed TrumpCare."

Even when you send the red hats to Snopes, they still believe in every one of his "charitable" and "humanitarian" acts.



Donald Trump used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet
By David A. Fahrenthold July 1, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/01/donald-trump-used-money-donated-for-charity-to-buy-himself-a-tim-tebow-signed-football-helmet/

Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction. The items up for sale: A Denver Broncos helmet, autographed by then-star quarterback Tim Tebow, and a Tebow jersey.

Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000. Afterward, he posed with the helmet. His purchase made gossip-column news: a flourish of generosity, by a mogul with money to burn. "The Donald giveth, and The Donald payeth," wrote the Palm Beach Daily News. "Blessed be the name of The Donald."

But Trump didn't actually pay with his own money.

Instead, the Susan G. Komen organization — the breast-cancer nonprofit that hosted the party — got a $12,000 payment from another nonprofit , the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

[VermontKevin]

3. I guess the plan to exhume Terry Schiavo failed. nt

[3catwoman3]

4. And American kids with treatable...

...conditions can go to jump in the lake.

[skylucy]

5. But if it is a refugee child, he does not give a ****.

[nolabear]

6. Help how? His own $$? And is he using the royal "we" now?

[HipChick]

7. Thousands are about to be murdered, yet he is choosing to politicize this?

[rickford66]

9. It's always all talk with him.

I would love to see the followup.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Hollow rhetoric.

He doesn't care about anyone but himself.

[July]

11. Trying to get British people to like him? Nt