Eugene Gu, MD
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Physician against #MedTwitter doctors and other medical professionals asking people to commit suicide on social media through massive coordinated cyberbullying.
New York, USA
Joined August 2009
If this clown show of a Trump prosecution propels him to a second term as President of the United States, I blame all these selfish, desperate, and craven media journalists who can’t survive without Trump. They are selling the soul of our nation for their cheap ratings. Shameful.
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As a doctor who watched the horrifying video, I can safely say that Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s autopsy report that heart disease, hypertension, and most outrageously “potential intoxicants” caused George Floyd’s death is so profoundly, and respectfully, quite bullshit.
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So it’s official. We’re number one in the world for coronavirus cases, even surpassing China which has more than 4 times as many people as the United States. That’s because despite spending more money on healthcare than anyone else, we have one of the worst health systems around.
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The H1N1 swine flu pandemic that infected up to 1.4 billion people and killed up to 575,000 originated in factory farmed pigs in the United States. Yet nobody ever calls it the “American Pig Flu.” Let’s stop calling the coronavirus the “Chinese Virus.” We’re all in this together.
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As a surgeon, I’ve operated on gunshot victims who’ve had bullets tear through their intestines, cut through their spinal cord, and pulverize their kidneys and liver. Rick Santorum telling kids to shut up and take CPR classes is simply unconscionable.
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@realDonaldTrump There it is. I’ve been deathly afraid of this exact moment where Trump turns to racism and xenophobia and calls COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus.” We are in deep trouble as a nation now that President of the United States makes the conscious decision to go down this dark path of hate.
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Trump kept telling us to take hydroxychloroquine and inject bleach into our veins to cure the coronavirus. Yet when he got infected, he took the most advanced monoclonal antibody cocktail made from fetal tissue obtained from abortions and never even once took hydroxychloroquine.
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President Donald Trump owes his life to a woman who donated her fetal tissue for medical research after having an abortion.
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Only in America can a 75 year old man get shoved by the police, hit his head on the pavement with blood pouring out his ears, get a subdural hematoma requiring serial CT scans and even a possible craniotomy, and the President of the United States calls him a terrorist on Twitter.
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Marsha Blackburn sent two armed US Marshals to my home in Nashville to subpoena me to Congress for the fetal tissue research that Trump ended up using to save himself from the coronavirus while nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court so that she can ban it permanently.
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So Trump is receiving Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail coming from the same genetically modified humanized mice I had once used in my own research that got me subpoenaed by Congress and isn’t taking hydroxychloroquine that his Demon Semen doctors push for the rest of us.
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Our President joked about "Pocahontas" in front of Navajo Code Talkers behind a portrait of Andrew Jackson. Where are all the people who said taking a knee was disrespectful to our military veterans? Are Native Americans not American enough?.
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As an American, it pains me to say this. The United Nations should investigate the United States of America for placing children in internment camps and violating both human rights and international law.
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We have an outbreak of E. Coli O157:H7 which makes you vomit blood, have bloody diarrhea, and even pee blood as you lose your kidneys. It’s all because Trump overturned Obama-era rules to test our farm water. Farmers save $12 million so that we pay $108 million in medical costs.
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George Zimmerman murdered an unarmed 17-year-old black kid in cold blood, auctioned the murder weapon for $250,000 to some white supremacist piece of shit, and is now suing Trayvon Martin’s family for $100 million. If this doesn’t make your blood boil, then you’re broken inside.
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@realDonaldTrump You did not win this election, by a lot. Actually, you lost his election, by at least 4.2 million votes. Now you are fighting so hard like an autocratic dictator to throw out Mail-In ballots in the swing states to try to win the undemocratic Electoral College.
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Lindsey Graham wonders who paid for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s $300 polygraph test. Well the American people wonder who paid for Brett Kavanaugh’s $200,000 credit card debt, $92,000 in country club fees, and $1.2 million mortgage when he gets paid $220,000 as a federal judge.
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I’m an Asian American physician providing free care to as many patients as I can through telemedicine to fight the coronavirus pandemic. I work with many other Asian American physicians who are doing the same. Calling it the Chinese Virus is so heartbreaking and dangerous for us.
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If there were mass hysterectomies at an ICE detention facility, then the United Nations must conduct an independent investigation against the United States for crimes against humanity. The doctors who performed the hysterectomies must be brought before The Hague and stand trial.
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I was at the Beverly Hills protest. Everyone was peaceful and kind. Shop owners cheered us on and motorists honked in support and raised their fists in solidarity. Aside from a little graffiti, there was no vandalism. Then the cops came and attacked people to start a fight. Why?.
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Dear New York Times,. As an Asian-American doctor in the Deep South, a low-key Nazi attacked me in the parking garage. Please don't normalize white supremacy. Sincerely,.Eugene Gu, MD.
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No matter what Eric Trump does, and I’m sure he’ll have many gaffes, always remember that he stole charity money from kids with cancer.
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Trump’s Department of State sending our national stockpile of PPE to China in February is one thing. But not directing companies to replenish that stockpile and then falsely accusing President Obama for leaving him with nothing is lying negligence almost to the point of treason.
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@realDonaldTrump Don’t be afraid of Covid? Not every American has access to the top therapeutics and doctors with the most advanced equipment available to the President of the United States. You feel better than you did 20 years ago? That’s because of your dexamethasone high that resembles mania.
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@realDonaldTrump So far, Joe Biden won 75,007,506 votes compared to Donald Trump at 70,825,258. That’s 4.2 million votes more for Biden than Trump. In fact, that’s the most for a President-elect in all of American history.
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If you’re concerned that Facebook let Netflix and Spotify access your private messages and basically sold your private data to all the tech giants without your consent, just wait until you see what 23andMe and Ancestry will do with your genetic information sometime soon.
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We learn in med school that if someone comes to the emergency room calling themselves the King of Israel and the second coming of God, that patient is either high on drugs or is having a psychotic break and needs to be promptly evaluated with a tox screen and psychiatric consult.
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Dear Sarah Sanders,. Womp womp. Sincerely,.Thousands of Red Hen fans.
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@realDonaldTrump He has been very good up until this exact moment not to inflame racial hatred against Asian Americans when it comes to the coronavirus. But now he has opened the floodgates of hate and violence against people like me and my family. I have never been this scared to be an American.
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When officially naming the coronavirus as COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically declared that it didn’t want to include any type of geographic or ethnic description of the virus that could inflame hatred. Trump calling it the Chinese Virus is beyond reprehensible.
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Only in America can a doctor turn away a 17-year-old boy in severe distress, without providing any stabilizing care whatsoever, ask the boy to fuck off to the emergency room somewhere else where he gets a heart attack on the way and dies—all because he has no health insurance.
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The Amazon Rainforest, one of the wettest places on Earth, is on fire. Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth, is on fire. That aint normal. Climate change is for real and our planet is burning up. Humans are the cause of this deadly fever. #PrayforAmazonia
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You don’t need to have evidence of trauma to the airway to believe that a knee to the neck killed this man. We all literally saw it. And for a medical doctor to ignore the actual most important piece of evidence, the video, to cover up for the police is pure evil. Do no harm.
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@realDonaldTrump To be quite honest, you are scaring me Mr. President. As an American citizen who loves my country, I am extremely scared that you are trying to undermine our free and fair elections in order to grab power for yourself. This isn’t Belarus or Russia. But I’m scared it will be soon.
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@realDonaldTrump The combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat the coronavirus has not been proven safe and effective through large scale clinical trials. There is only anecdotal evidence from case reports in countries overseas. Promising them as miracle drugs gives false hope.
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I wish the media would spend just a fraction of the time they spend smearing Hunter Biden to call out Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump. I mean, just for starters, Eric Trump stole charity money from kids with cancer. That seems like a pretty big deal.
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Martin Shkreli is going to jail for defrauding rich people. If we jailed him for exploiting the poor and the vulnerable, other rich people would be in trouble too. Alex Azar tripled the price of insulin. But he's not in jail—he's our Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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The NRA told doctors to stay in their lane and now there’s a shooting at Mercy Hospital in Chicago. Doctors can be patients and victims of gun violence too. We’re all in this together as human beings who just want to live and come home to our families. Enough is enough.
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As a victim of bullying, Keaton Jones broke all of our hearts. But by being hateful and racist, his mom broke all of our hearts again. And we did Nazi that coming.
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@realDonaldTrump Stop the count? This is literally something a brutal dictator would say in the middle of an election. We live in a democracy. Every vote matters because we the American people deserve free and fair elections. This isn’t Belarus or Russia. This is the United States of America.
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No human being in the history of human civilization has ever died from overdosing on marijuana.
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Asian Americans are American no matter how we look, act, dress, eat, talk, or simply breathe air. We’re American when we eat kimchi, natto, or give red envelopes on Chinese New Year. We don’t have to prove our American-ness to anyone. And we deserve to be safe in our own country.
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@realDonaldTrump @OANN This is really low and inhumane Trump. Everyone saw the horrifying video where 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed by the police so hard that he fell over backwards, hit his head on the pavement, and blood started pouring out of his ears. It was so shocking and heartbreaking.
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95% of Americans should know that Eric Trump stole charity money from kids with cancer.
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@realDonaldTrump I cannot emphasize this enough. HUMAN LIVES ARE WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE. The economy is important but what use is money if you and your loved ones are dead? Money can always be made later. But your life cannot be refunded and purchased again.
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PLEASE do not inject anything into your body or ingest anything at all to kill the coronavirus. There is NO SUBSTANCE that will disinfect your body of the coronavirus from the inside. Don’t inject or drink bleach, soap, don’t do isopropyl alcohol, lysol, or ANYTHING WHATSOEVER.
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Joel Osteen's megachurch is designed for the rising tithe, not tide.
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@realDonaldTrump Mutiny on the Bounty was about the ruthless, unjust, tyrannical Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty who shackled his own crew and tortured so many of his own men that they mutinied against him. It’s fascinating that Trump sees himself as Captain Bligh. It’s quite terrifying as well.
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Rose McGowan attacks sexual harassers. Gets suspended. Richard Spencer attacks minorities. Gets blue checkmark.
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@realDonaldTrump They are finding Biden votes all over the place because the American people voted for him. It’s called an election. Deal with it.
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Black teens get gunned down on the streets for just wearing a hoodie while white teens have expensive PR teams that gaslight us through respected journalists and make us second guess racist actions seen on video. This is the nature of white supremacy. It’s powerful and indisious.
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@realDonaldTrump Stop calling COVID-19 the China Virus and encouraging white supremacists to beat my Asian American brothers and sisters on the streets and to inhumanely bully them in their daily lives. Scapegoating us like this for political clout is beyond unconscionable. We are human beings.
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Malia Obama doesn't, you know, slaughter endangered animals.
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Yesterday, Tennessee legislators refused to denounce neo-Nazism. So today, as an Asian-American doctor who was racially and physically assaulted at Vanderbilt hospital in Tennessee, I take the knee on the steps of the Tennessee House of Representatives to fight white supremacy.
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This is the Waffle House hero, James Shaw Jr. He tackled the shooter and saved so many lives in the process. Thank you James. And thank you TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center for your wonderful doctors and nurses who quickly took care of his injuries.
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@realDonaldTrump @OANN The President of the United States calling the old man an Antifa provacateur when he was a victim of elder abuse is just outrageous. Trump has no empathy whatsoever for actual human beings. He can also label anyone he wants as Antifa, which is scary and extremely arbitrary.
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@realDonaldTrump It’s beyond irresponsible for the President of the United States to use his one experience with COVID-19 and extrapolate that to millions of people who are suffering. More than 200,000 Americans have already died. Many more are in peril and have every reason to take precautions.
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Insulin should be free, weed should be legal, and health care should be universal.
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He got hired, divorced, had a baby, and fired in 10 days. Like a fruit fly. #Scaramucci.
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A tale of two doctors:. Michael Miselis, a 29-year-old PhD student, attends a white supremacist rally and brutally beats a black protestor. Still employed. Eugene Gu, a 32-year-old surgery resident, takes a knee to fight white supremacy. Terminated. Welcome to Trump’s America.
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@realDonaldTrump I literally cannot believe Trump cares this much about his ratings in the middle of the worst pandemic in modern history as Americans worry about their loved ones and their basic survival. This is like a reality TV show to him while it’s like the real life Hunger Games for us.
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@realDonaldTrump We the American people don’t want war with Iran. We don’t want to spend trillions of dollars losing thousands of American lives getting stuck in another Middle East quagmire like Iraq or Afghanistan. But it seems like Trump is saber-rattling and itching for a chance to go to war.
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@realDonaldTrump “It’s just the flu, bro.”.—Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
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Trump called Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas and joked about Wounded Knee. Jason Chaffetz posted a selfie next to a Native American statue in Disneyland. Rand Paul posted one next to a teepee on a beach. These leaders influenced these kids to become bigots. #CovingtonCatholic.
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Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody cocktail that Trump credits for “curing” him from COVID-19 wouldn’t even exist without the human embryonic stem cell and fetal tissue research that Marsha Blackburn sent two armed US Marshals to subpoena me to Congress to stop me from doing. Irony.
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Santa Fe High School is supposed to be preparing for graduation not mourning the dead. Unfortunately, it’s because Republicans care more about a murderer’s right to a gun than a child’s right to live.
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@realDonaldTrump The President of the United States should never threaten on Twitter or anywhere else to target another country’s non-millitary cultural sites. That is an act of evil terrorism with no strategic value whatsoever other than destroying people’s heritage and history.
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@elonmusk Hi Elon,. I'm not here to cancel or bully you. I just want to inform you and your audience why I believe stay-at-home orders are the right thing to do for the coronavirus pandemic. On April 16, around 5,000 people died from COVID19. Extrapolating that for a year is 1.8 million.
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Republicans who are faux outraged over Joaquin Castro tweeting a list of publicly available names of people who donated the federal maximum to Trump should remember that Senator Marsha Blackburn released an unredacted list of fetal tissue researchers including me and my family.
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Seeing Namjoon of BTS give a speech to the United Nations really shows how international pop culture influences international politics at the highest level. BTS is not just a viral sensation but a force to be reckoned with.
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If George Floyd had underlying heart disease and hypertension, and if he was on a respiratory depressant drug, that would simply make him more vulnerable to a lack of air due to a knee to the neck. Hypoxic cardiac arrest would be especially more likely to happen in that scenario.
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Amy Cooper, the VP of Investment Solutions at Franklin Templeton, needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for falsely accusing an African American man of being violent against her and calling 911. This isn’t about cancel culture. This is about basic accountability.
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@realDonaldTrump I know this is an emergency and we are desperate. But as a physician, I took a solemn oath to “first, do no harm.” That means not testing off label drugs on human patients that may have side effects like vision and hearing loss, heart problems, and death for an unproven benefit.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a rich white woman, is charged with child sex trafficking. Trump: “I just wish her well, frankly.”. Central Park 5, a group of innocent black and brown kids, are falsely accused of rape. Trump: “EXECUTE THEM!!!”.
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@realDonaldTrump I just want to say that it’s okay to lose an election but it is definitely not okay for the lame duck President of the United States to scream on Twitter in all caps about election fraud and not having observers in the counting rooms. This dangerously undermines our democracy.
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A tale of 2 Waffle Houses:. In Tennessee, an unarmed black man, James Shaw, disarmed a white domestic terrorist who murdered 4 people of color. In Alabama, a black woman, Chikesia Clemons, was brutally arrested for complaining about being charged for a plastic spoon. Same day.
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Imagine finding a dude dying of thirst in the Sahara desert and charging him $500 for a bottle of water. If he doesn’t have the money, he dies in pure agony. What does that say about you as a person?. Oh wait, that’s every hospital in America charging $500 for a bag of saline.
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@realDonaldTrump “I, in my great and unmatched wisdom” sounds like malignant narcissism from Kim Jong Un or Joseph Stalin. Trump is the enemy of the people all over the world. His negotiations with North Korea fell apart and Trump thinks he can control Turkey with some strongly worded tweets.
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If you think toilet paper and hand sanitizers are in short supply, wait till you hear about doctors.
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So let me get this straight. Trump’s own niece Mary Trump doesn’t like him, so to make up for it, Trump got the endorsement of Osama Bin Laden’s niece, Noor Bin Laden. She even wears a MAGA hat. This reality TV show we are living in is totally off the rails.
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Spent the holidays doing six kidney transplants with three more to go. Did two on Christmas Eve, three on Christmas, one yesterday, and now three more coming in for today. It's been super busy but a true privilege to give the gift of life to these wonderful patients.
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@realDonaldTrump You should have said this yesterday instead of telling the mob of rioters carrying Confederate and Trump flags that you love them.
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@realDonaldTrump Translation: Trump cares about the Dow Jones Industrial Average and his re-election chances more than he cares about the lives of the American people.
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@realDonaldTrump Stop calling the coronavirus the Chinese Virus. You’re trying to make this into an acceptable term for all Americans to use by relentlessly tweeting about it in defiance of so many Asian Americans like me who are telling you to please stop out of concern for our safety.
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@realDonaldTrump Maybe you should stop making fun of Joe Biden and your enemies by calling them “Sleepy,” “hiding in the basement,” and accusing them of physical ailments when you yourself aren’t in your prime. I’m not here to make fun of you medically but you’re in a glass house throwing stones.
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White lady: We don't serve colored people here. Dick Gregory: I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. RIP Mr. Gregory😰
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@realDonaldTrump Because Democratic voters use Mail-In ballots to avoid having to vote in person and getting sick in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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@jk_rowling As a physician, I want people to know that sex exists on a bimodal biological spectrum just like gender exists on a bimodal sociological spectrum. While most identify as either female or male, there are intersex and trans individuals whose identities are just as valid and real.
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Dear Myeshia Johnson,. We all remember your heroic husband's name, Sgt. La David T. Johnson, even if Trump doesn't. Sincerely,.America.
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@realDonaldTrump Wow. Trump is quite literally using Twitter as a way to declare war on Iran without even notifying Congress through official means. Never before in the history of the United States has any President been this unhinged and disrespectful of our Constitution.
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@GOPLeader So now it’s the Chinese coronavirus? Why is racism against Asians so widely accepted and tolerated in this country?.
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Dear Mr. President,. The problem with school shootings in this country is that individuals like Nikolas Cruz, previously reported to the FBI as a potential threat, was still able to purchase an AR-15 over-the-counter like a slice of pizza. Sincerely,.America.
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12 dehydrated, hungry boys breathing low oxygen in total darkness for 15 days and who don't even know how to swim are learning to scuba dive in the most treacherous cave in the world. That's like learning how to do advanced neurosurgery in a day. And succeeding. #ThaiCaveRescue.
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@realDonaldTrump There is already community spread of the coronavirus within the United States and the virus is affecting countries around the world. This is why we need to approach this as a global effort rather than racist nationalism and xenophobia. We’re all in this together.
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When the Merck CEO denounces the KKK, Trump denounces the Merck CEO. That's White House Supremacy.
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No matter what we think of celebrities or public figures, Pete Davidson is a human being who deserves to live. The thousands of hurtful comments to him are shameful and inhumane. Please know Pete, that you are loved by millions. Most of all, your family loves you unconditionally.
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