Trump claim doctors treating mass shooting victims 'were coming out of operating rooms' to meet him dismissed by hospital
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Trump claim doctors treating mass shooting victims 'were coming out of operating rooms' to meet him dismissed by hospital
A hospital in El Paso has denied Donald Trump ’s claim doctors “were coming out of operating rooms” to meet him when he travelled to Texas and Ohio to console victims of two mass shootings.
"At no time did, or would, physicians or staff leave active operating rooms during the presidential visit,” University Medical Center spokesperson Ryan Mielke told local TV station KVIA . “Our priority is always patient care."
Mr Mielke’s statement came after the US president, apparently angered by reports some victims refused to meet him earlier this month, lashed out on Wednesday at the media and claimed victims and their families actually “love our president”.
“When I went to Dayton and when I went to El Paso, and I went into those hospitals, the love for me – and ‘me’ maybe as the representative of the country – but for me, and my love for them was unparalleled, these are incredible people,” Mr Trump said.
“But if you read the papers, it was like nobody would meet with me. Not only did they meet with me, they were pouring out of the rooms. The doctors were coming out of the operating rooms. There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor, you couldn’t even walk on it, so, you know there’s a lot to happen.”
Mr Trump’s assertion he was loved in El Paso was in stark contrast to a statement by the hospital at the time, which said some victims “didn’t want to meet with the president” in the aftermath of the shooting, which left 22 people dead.
Mr Trump did, however, meet with some victims already discharged by the hospital, including a two-month-old baby who was made an orphan after his parents were killed in the massacre.
The 73-year-old caused widespread anger when he was photographed grinning and giving a thumbs up while alongside the child.
The president also visited a second hospital in Dayton, Ohio, after a gunman killed 10 people outside a bar just hours after the El Paso attack.
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The megalomaniac just has to make everything about his stupid fat ass. What a bloated disgusting ego it has.
The only thing these doctors might have come running to Trump about, AFTER they tended to MANY CRITICALLY INJURED, would have been to attempt to reverse his lobotomy
I like your style.
Now Tessy, at least he did not claim to have healed the victims by the placing of his hands upon them.
I suppose my take on Mr. Trumps nonsensical tales is that the lies could always have been that more the outrageous.
And here I thought that the laying on of tiny hands was a Trump thingy.
He does claim godhood after all.
I suppose what tiny thing those tiny hands are placed on is the difference.
“But if you read the papers, it was like nobody would meet with me. Not only did they meet with me, they were pouring out of the rooms. The doctors were coming out of the operating rooms. There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor, you couldn’t even walk on it, so, you know there’s a lot to happen.”
How rude of them - to save lives rather than stroking the snowflake-in-chief's massive ego. But as always, Trump has to lie about it. He needs major psychiatric help.
He's a done deal. Nothing short of electroshock therapy would help that waste of flesh.
I'm surprised he didn't say the patients were getting up off the operating table and coming out to meet him.
He lies, about everything. The man is totally delusional.
"The love for me"
?????
Oh. My. Fucking. God!
The man needs therapy. And he should know, because he's such a stable genius, that doctors/surgeons do not break the sterility of the operating theater just to press the flesh of the POTUS!
Some staff members had to call some folks who were already released and beg them to come back and kiss this scumbag's ass.
“When I went to Dayton and when I went to El Paso, and I went into those hospitals, the love for me – and ‘me’ maybe as the representative of the country – but for me, and my love for them was unparalleled, these are incredible people,” Mr Trump said.
Well, at least he said one thing that wasn't a lie, "these are incredible people". Everything else in his statement was pulled straight from his vast, worn, echoing asshole pre-stretched by his pal Putin and the plethora of sycophant heads that remain stuck in it.