The Trump Hospital

 

An otherwise healthy 25-year-old is involved in an accident. Suffering from a broken leg, a sprained wrist, and facial lacerations, that patient is brought to the Trump Hospital. The Emergency Room Trauma Team is led by Elon Musk and a group of intelligent young people. None have any medical training. In fact, there are no licensed doctors or trained medical personnel at this hospital.

The closest thing to someone with “medical training” at this facility is the head administrator, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He has experience as a drug addict who successfully gave himself heroin injections for 14 years. He also claimed that his parasitic brain worms cleared on their own. Possibly they overdosed on heroin or maybe they were “just in his head.”

Once in the ER, the decision is made to amputate the fractured leg at the knee and to amputate the arm with the sprained wrist just above the elbow. The leg is quickly removed by Mr. Musk using his favorite instrument, the chainsaw. Another team member removes the patient’s arm when they realize the arm they removed, was the healthy arm with no injury. The decision is made to try to reattach the arm that was removed by mistake. They decide to do this before addressing the facial lacerations with the only process they know, amputation.

The patient is still bleeding heavily as efforts are underway to apply tourniquets. They quickly run out of tourniquets as all monies to buy new supplies have been frozen in a cost cutting effort. All surgery was done without anesthesia as their fentanyl supplies from Mexico were stopped at the border.

The situation described above is not unlike what is happening to our country. We are relatively young, had some serious injuries, but were otherwise healthy. Now, we are in serious condition and the outlook is bleak. We have alienated our neighbors, pissed off all of Europe, and the only people who seem to be happy are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and of course Trump and his fellow billionaires.

The stock market is suffering and becoming more volatile, and inflation was never seriously on the Trump agenda. Unemployment is on the rise with thousands of layoffs of federal employees and the job losses that will occur in the private sector from the trickle down from those cuts. The effects of imposed tariffs have not yet happened but will surely hit consumers soon.

The long-term effects from the loss of medical and scientific research will be decades in the making. The loss of personnel at our National Parks will soon be seen. It may take a few natural disasters before losses at other federal agencies really are felt. We can only hope that recent changes at the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon will not place our nation in serious danger. One can only wonder how long it will be before Trump supporters realize that they chose the wrong “hospital” to cure their ills.