Donald Trump tells America’s seniors that only he can save them, promising to deliver the same treatment for COVID that he received free-of-charge just after the election

As you might remember, before being elected President of the United States, Donald Trump told voters that, if we were to put him in the White House, he’d immediately be rolling out a health care plan that would “take care of everybody.” He refused to give any details at the time, but, as he told Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, “Everybody,” under his plan, was “going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” That, of course, never happened. Not only did Donald Trump never roll out the “terrific,” “phenomenal” and “fantastic” health care plan, like he’d repeatedly promised, but millions lost their health insurance during his first term, as he and Republicans sought to undercut the Affordable Care Act, eliminate protections for those with preexisting conditions, etc. And, now, as we head into the final weeks of his reelection campaign, he’s at it again, making promises about health care that we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, he never intends to keep.

With two reputable polls showing Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by more than 20 points with voters 65 and older, the President did something unprecedented today. Like the snake oil salesman that he is, Donald Trump, standing in front of a green screen, took to Twitter to tell America’s seniors that they’d be receiving an “incredible” new “cure” for COVID-19. “You’re gonna’ get the same medicine (I got), and you’re gonna’ get it free,” he told America’s seniors. And, he said, it would be coming “soon.” Biden, he told them, wouldn’t do this for them. Only he could save their lives, and at absolutely “no charge”! Even by Trump’s standards, it was despicable.

Just remember, when he says, “Everybody’s going to be taken care of,” he’s said that before. And never forget, over 210,000 Americans have already died on his watch. And, for god’s sake, vote as though your life depends on it. There is one thing I know to be true, and that’s that Donald Trump will not be mailing a miracle cure to every American senior free-of-charge.

The reason it looks so weird, I think, is that he's laying down on the green screen, being shot from above. https://t.co/4zDQ9ERoRQ

— Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) October 8, 2020

It’s also worth noting that the “cure” Trump talks about, which he received at Walter Reed last week — a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies developed by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron — was made with cells derived from fetal tissue, something which he had previously said that he was against.