Trump Makes His Body Guard Carry Around Hand Sanitizer For Him

“Give me the stuff.”

That’s all President Trump has to say to inform his body guard that he’s desperate for a hit of hand sanitizer, Politico reported.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1233668

Well, the guy (I bet it’s a guy) is a BODY guard.

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Funny how Mr. Doesn’t Use Condoms with Pornstars is all germaphobic…

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Something is telling me no amount of hand sanitizer is going to cleanse the Purell President of his upcoming very bad very awful very terrible week.

Cuomo Signs a Bill to Allow Release of Trump’s State Tax Returns

July 8, 2019
As the battle over President Trump’s federal taxes intensifies in Washington, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York signed a bill on Monday to allow congressional committees to access the president’s state tax returns.
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Fun Facts: The bill is effective immediately; Trump has already issued 11 tweets this morning (always a sure sign of distress); and Hitler was also a germaphobe.

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“Give me the stuff.” That’s all President Trump has to say to inform his body guard that he’s desperate for a hit of hand sanitizer.

I hope “body guard” was meant to be “body man” because it’s not the Secret Service’s job to keep Dump’s toiletries until they are asked for.

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You are correct. The story in Politico reports that the Purell guy is a “body man,” not a “bodyguard.” Although the idea of Trump making his Secret Service detail carry hand sanitizer to protect him from the germs is pretty sweet.

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One of my “proudest” moments is forcing Trump to shake my hand in front of hundreds of people back in 2004, at a release party for his book Think Like a Billionaire. We (employees of his publisher) had been directed not to shake hands with him, but I found myself at the base of his escalator hating him with everything I had. How could I not shake his hand?

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This is obviously symbolic. I know they’ve done psychological studies that show that people wash their hands more often after they’ve engaged in morally questionable behavior. Of course, Trump as a primitive, oblivious creature is unaware of it at a conscious level. But at some subconscious level, he knows he is doing morally reprehensible things on a daily basis and he thinks that using extra hand sanitizer will cleanse him of his wrongdoing. Sorry, Donald–it’s not going to work.

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Too bad tump is unaware that he lives in a sea of bacteria as we all do.

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I guess Trump makes a distinction between shaking hands with rubes at public events and raw-dogging porn stars at pubic events.

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Well if he was rational he wouldn’t be a germaphobe. As well as a bigot, misogynist, racist, xenophobic twit

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It occurs to me that germophobia may be the root of his various other strange afflictions except for his attraction to porn stars minus … ahem… “protection”.

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And that the overuse of hand sanitizers, like antibiotics, weakens the body’s immune system’s ability to fight off infections and diseases.

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I haven’t read the Politico piece (yet), but anyone who works in close contact with people can relate to this. For some people it could be kids, for others it could be the food worker who sneezes into her elbow as she’s making your sandwich, and in my case it’s being trapped in the hallway just after a lecture gets out, stuck behind some bro or giggly group of young women, all doing the slow zigzagging zombie walk while they check their phones for the latest updates on whatever, everybody sniffling and slobbering and coughing into their elbows or directly into my mouth as they come around the corner not looking up from their darn phones!!!111three!!!

I was wondering if Trump does, in fact, shake hands with his supporters at campaign rallies. I can’t bear to watch his rallies, so I don’t know.

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I’d guess that his germophobia is instead a symptom of his deeper personality disorders.

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Welcome!

Trump does not shake hands. He does not ‘work the rope line’ at all. He walks by crowds with a thumbs up and applauding the crowd, but notice he is never placed within an arm’s length of any random member of the public.

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Is there on this oblate green globe
A more sickening foul germophobe
Than this poisonous toad,
This malodorous load,
This emperor without any robe?

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If I was so inclined.
If I was a highly paid but bored body man.
I might just replace the sanitizer mixture with some clear agar that had been incubating something swiped off the men’s room floor.

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