For Heaven’s Sakes, Let Him...

So I heard yesterday that “Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Monday that President Trump should not be taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug the president has touted as a treatment for COVID-19, given his age and because he is ‘morbidly obese.’” (CBS News).

She is, of course, absolutely right. If Trump really is taking hydroxychloroquine, then neither he nor anyone else knows what it will do to him.

But, come..

Ms. Pelosi, he’s a big boy. If Trump wants to scarf down unproven medications which may have seriously deleterious side-effects and turn him puce-green with red polkadots and maybe give him projectile diarrhea in the middle of a press conference...

By Golly...

Let him.

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