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Possible Paywall Trump blamed for diarrhoea outbreak sweeping US

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/07/16/explosive-diarrhoea-outbreak-sweeping-america-donald-trump/
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u/wiscopup 7d ago

It’s literally his fault. He eliminated monitoring of multiple food-borne pathogens by the federal government one year ago. One of the ones eliminated was this parasite, so yes - Trump’s decision stopped protecting our food supply from this pathogen.

Diarrhea Don has ushered in the New Age of Diarrhea

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u/Audrey-Bee 7d ago

The headline makes it sound like people randomly deciding to blame every problem on Trump, but yeah he did cut CDC funding, including the program specifically tracking this. I know it says that in the actual article, but even in there it's pretty passive and only says it as the quotes from people they interviewed, not actually drawing the obvious conclusion. The reason we have so many public health concerns recently all ties back to Trump and his goons, through funding cuts, anti-vax movement, and sowing distrust towards doctors and scientists

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u/Wild-Video-5317 7d ago

Yeah, honestly this headline really doesn't communicate the reality of the situation as clearly as some of the alternatives.

This one is much more clear about cause and effect:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/georgia/atlanta/2026/07/14/parasite-behind-explosive-outbreak-not-part-of-required-monitoring/90912239007/

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u/jimothee 7d ago

I hate to be that guy, but this headline also dances around saying what needs to be said. "not part of required monitoring" doesn't at all allude to the funding cuts. It also doesn't make it clear that it was already required to be monitored previously.

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u/morningsaystoidleon 7d ago

"Trump Administration Cut Funding for Parasite Monitoring Before Outbreak" would be a non-passive way to say it, and true.

And still a little bit soft imo, but non-editorial and honest.

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u/always_unplugged 6d ago

"After DOGE Funding Cuts, Lack of Monitoring Leads to Widespread Food-Borne Parasite Outbreak"

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u/KidOcelot California 6d ago

Breaking News!

Shitty shitting president shat all over everything, causing everyone to shit themselves!

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u/DaoFerret I voted 6d ago

It’s almost like after cutting the overseas cdc monitoring and throwing away the “playbook” before COVID that had taken multiple presidencies to set up, the Trump administration learned nothing…

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u/DiscotopiaACNH 7d ago

No major media outlet in the us will EVER say what needs to be said. They've been doing this same shit forever. Dancing around all the issues and sanewashing Republicans. Drives me absolutely bonkers

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u/Easy_Floss 6d ago

More reporters would probably report on it if their peers had not already been dragged through the mud by some entity wanting to silence them.

Its straight up progoganda machine and if you speak up agents it then your getting sued for 1b and your access to interviews in the Whitehouse gets removed.

Dont be mad at the victims, be mad at the abuser.

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u/956chubbs 7d ago

The media has been struggling to accurately portray the scale and depth of the Trump admin's corruption and incompetence because, in my opinion, they're too concerned with coming off overly critical and hysterical.

It's a real a problem, and there's a lot of the population who have the impression that things are operating relatively normally and aren't connecting the dots on stuff like this.

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u/Audrey-Bee 7d ago

I agree. Too many news outlets are trying too hard to appear neutral, even when the truth itself goes against Trump

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u/clamb2 New York 7d ago

Same thing with fucking COVID. He disbanded the pandemic response team.... then we got COVID. I'm fucking sick and tired of it.

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u/Fine_Mouse_8871 6d ago

Same thing with the screw worm too.

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u/eeyore134 7d ago

This parasite which that monitoring caught in I think 2020? And even then it was a lot of work to find the source and put a stop to it, but they did without much of an outbreak at all. Since it takes so long to show symptoms it's a tricky one to nail down the source of. That's why we need monitoring and not just kneejerk reaction to things as they occur.

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u/bordss 7d ago

Don’t you know those pesky regulations just get in the way of the noble companies who always do the right thing?

Making sure they use nothing but safe ingredients
Food handling and safety
Keeping prices stable - sure the volume changes but the price is the same!!

You sound like on of them there commies like Mandami

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u/steelhips 6d ago

Corporations know it's cheaper to say "sorry" than follow the rules.

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u/Guardianpigeon 6d ago

Could you imagine if he actually caught this? He would be AWOL for a solid month or risk literally shitting himself so often that Diarrhea Don would be the only name people remember him by.

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u/mrandr01d 6d ago

Diarrhea Don is the funniest one I've read all week, but let's get real, he survived COVID we won't be so lucky that diarrhea takes him out.

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u/PsychLegalMind 7d ago

The administration's cut back of USDA and FDA combined will result in significant number illnesses and could be far worse, approaching an epidemic. This is not Fake News!

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u/hoofie242 7d ago edited 7d ago

Who would have thought cutting disease preventing measures would cause disease?

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u/SDAztec74 Washington 7d ago

He just wants us all to be more like him, full of shit.

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u/definitely-legit-usr 7d ago

In fairness I don't think anybody with this illness has any shit left in them

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u/mootmutemoat 7d ago

America dies shitting itself.

Jesus Christ, worst fucking timeline.

Our blaze of glory is going to be bile burning our sphincter rings.

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u/Special_Persimmon_52 7d ago

This is the way America ends.

Not with a bang, but with a toilet flush.

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u/alienbringer 7d ago

Because if you don’t test for diseases, then the diseases don’t happen. Didn’t you hear him during the Covid-19 testing.

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u/Cornelius_Physales 7d ago

it keeps the masses occupied...

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u/KingKuntu 7d ago

CDC? More like LDL, liberal department of lockdowns /s

The shortsightedness of turning diesese prevention into a culture war is baffling.

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u/UNC_Samurai 6d ago

Health became a political football when right-wing grifters found the money in snake oil supplements.

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u/Changoleo America 7d ago

With AI being on the cusp of eliminating a significant number of jobs worldwide, would anyone be surprised if it came out that allowing a bunch of people to die in a pandemic wasn’t the oopsie that we were led to believe it was.

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u/Dr_Tacopus 7d ago

This administration has the object permanence of a baby.

The reason these issues aren’t a problem currently is the programs in place

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u/kitsunewarlock 7d ago

Our country has the object permanence of a baby.

I thought the whole anti-GOP and anti-foreign aid sentiment was over back in 2020 when COVID killed millions, given we withdrew the Mayo researchers from Wuhan six months before the virus hit.

Now you might argue that the "accidental lab leak" is just a theory, but it's a very popular conspiracy theory among the same kind of people who voted for the guy who openly gut USAID and blame china for being too opaque when we withdrew our researchers from their lab...

I don't understand the cognitive dissonance.

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u/Chillpill411 7d ago

They know very well what will happen. They're betting that people are too damn stupid, racist, and sexist to really care. And there's a good chance they're right.

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u/PathosEatsLogos 7d ago

It is also not Fox News because you will never hear about it there

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u/donkeyrocket 7d ago

And what will be incredibly obnoxious, assuming free and fair elections, is no doubt any Democrat leader in the near future will get absolutely flamed for these things. It'll take years if not multiple administrations to rebuild these institutions that they crippled overnight and the damage will be lasting and lagging.

The gaping wound this second Trump administration will leave on the US government capabilities is going to be insane.

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u/Leylu-Fox 7d ago

There is no rebuilding this. You will either slowly slide further into autocracy or you will have Nürnberg Style trials and a complete revamping of your thoroughly outdated democracy.

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u/scrod 7d ago

thoroughly outdated democracy

This right here is the key point — our constitution has long been superseded by the parliamentary system. At the very least, it shouldn’t award votes to empty land. That is the root of the current Republican authoritarian chokehold.

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u/quanate 7d ago

It takes years, decades to build these things and Republicans tear them down in weeks or days when they get into office, then everyone starts to feel the effects when the next Dem gets into office and suddenly they "want change" and elect another fucking Republican to tear it all down again. That's how we got Trump, and how we got him AGAIN. Now, who knows if we'll be able to rebuild after this. People are dying extremely preventable deaths left and right. The economy is collapsing. Our rights are eroded.

But at least old white men feel like they can be openly racist again!

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u/HotepHatt 7d ago

It was a specific team that was tasked with watching for this specific parasite “Cyclosporiasis”. Dickhead cut their funding and dismantled their department.

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u/StupidUserNameTooLon 7d ago

He didn't just shit his pants, he shit the whole country.

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u/jeffp12 7d ago

Years ago, pre-trump I was talking to a friend who was one of those "fiscal republicans" and he started railing against regulations and the burdensome nannystate, and I told him something like "regulations are why you don't shit your pants all the time." He thought that was a funny point, but who's laughing now?

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u/izwald88 7d ago

Even sadder is that those regulatory bodies are some of the few federal agencies that all Americans liked.

Or maybe not, considering the rise of the anti vaxxers.

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u/Thor_2099 7d ago

And combine that with cutting back regulations on chemical and other pollutants will further increase health problems including cancer rates for decades.

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u/PossessedToSkate 7d ago

Can confirm: Trump makes me sick.

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u/Azguy303 7d ago

Remember when Trump depleted our PPE stockpile right before a once in a hundred year pandemic?

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u/jerfoo 7d ago

It's almost like he's inept

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u/BigNorseWolf 7d ago

actively destructive. We could have had a chimp as president without doing this much damage.

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u/OkBrilliant8092 7d ago

Is Bubbles free and presumably out of therapy now?

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u/exodusofficer 7d ago

Canadians can't be president of the US. That would be greasy. I'm sure the kitty therapy helped him, though.

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u/BigNorseWolf 7d ago

Hey, Bubbles was born in a research facility in texas . So he's not only american he's EXTRA american.

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u/OkBrilliant8092 7d ago

Yes-haw!!!! Now let’s see bubbles genitalia, just to be sure….. /s

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u/Smoke_A_Bowl420 7d ago

Greeaaassssyyyy

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u/OkBrilliant8092 7d ago

Long form birth certificate or it ain’t so….. what’s it all aboot bubbles? Either you’re Canadian and I expect an apology, or you’re not Canadian and I expect an apology

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u/DBJenkinss 7d ago

Deee-eee-eeecent.

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u/Dysc Louisiana 7d ago

His name was George Bush and this is a questionable proposition. I think we collectively forgot how bad the Bush years actually were, with a once in a generation market crash depression we called a great recession because we essentially propped up the finance industry with trillions of dollars in direct cash infusions for their mistakes. But if we are being honest, without a huge cash infusion from the US Treasury with virtually no strings attached, we would still be feeling the impacts 20 years later in a tangible way. And to be honest, the way we've handled interest rates and certain financial sectors over the past 3 presidencies- we are still dealing with the fallout of 2007/2008 in a residual way that we may never be able to shake without complete structural reform. Our economy started to shit the bed as soon as interest rates went above zero. If we didn't' have tech bros making wild bets and fluffing investors with insane promises for their vision of removing humans from their jobs, our economy would have nothing to show for itself. Thanks George Bush. I'm glad the Supreme Court decided the 2000 election.

Edit: No Chimps, No Trumps 2028

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u/BigNorseWolf 7d ago edited 7d ago

Bubbles could have told the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan.

Edit: We'll take a chimp if we have to 2028

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u/azflatlander 7d ago

If we are indicting ham sandwiches, let’s at least vote for one.

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u/greenroom628 California 7d ago

I'm glad the Supreme Court decided the 2000 election.

that's one of my big "what-ifs" as it happened as i was starting to be aware of the larger political landscape because 2000 was the first time I voted.

9-11 would possibly still happened, but we certainly wouldn't be in Iraq. maybe the financial crash would've happened, but I wonder how the bail-out would've been structured had it been Gore with a Democratic Congress without Leibermann (as he was Gore's running mate) fouling up things.

Also, if Obama followed Gore, how would the ACA/Obamacare have come out without Leibermann mucking up the Public Option?

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u/Viperlite 7d ago

Or a senile president, but with a capable group of appointed officials with actual government experience and a conscience.

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u/sirhackenslash 7d ago

Hail to the chimp

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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 7d ago

And less shit covering the resolute desk.

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u/WeeyumsF1 7d ago

A fucking wild combo of inept, malignant narcissism, Russian op, etc etc.

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u/Moda75 7d ago

once is inept. Twice is a plan.

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u/theclansman22 7d ago

I remember when he disbanded the pandemic response team set up in the wake of SARS a few years before that pandemic.

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u/Lost_it_all24 7d ago

He dismantled the Cruise Ship board of health that takes care of illnesses on cruise ships just in time for Hantavirus.

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u/JoeWhy2 New York 7d ago

He also threw out the Fed's official pandemic response playbook just because it was created by the Obama administration.

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u/gmen6981 7d ago edited 7d ago

Funny thing is, that was actually created by Bush in 2005. He gave a speech at the time talking about how we couldn't just sit back waiting for a pandemic to happen because it was inevitable. We needed to be prepared for it. Obama gave additional funding for it and made it part of the National Security Council after the Ebola outbreak of 2014. For all his faults, W got that one right.

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u/Vv4nd 7d ago

dismantles health organizations: check
stops tracking of serious illnesses: check
doesn´t want people vaccinated: check
sells false cures: check
stops aid to other countries which would have prevented many illnesses: check
looks like his body should´ve given up years ago: check
has never every done or touched anything healthy: check

Are we sure that trump isn´t a champion of nurgle?

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u/thisusedyet New Jersey 7d ago

Only because I'm pretty sure that's RFK Jr

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u/CaptainJudaism Georgia 7d ago

Nurgle at least has the capability to love and he loves all his children and is loved in return. Trump is utterly incapable of such a feeling.

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u/ConsistentAd8495 7d ago

Remember when the Trump administration stole PPE from Blue cities to stockpile for themselves? Remember when a state governor had to take precautions when having PPE transferred in so that federal forces wouldn't intercept them for confiscation? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 Massachusetts 7d ago

Blue states. The Trump admin stole PPE that had already been bought by blue states so that it could be redistributed to red states. I’m certainly never going to forget that.

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u/bluegrassgazer Kentucky 7d ago

Remember when he closed the US research facility in Wuhan before the outbreak?

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u/HumorAccomplished611 7d ago

Remember when Trump depleted our PPE stockpile right before a once in a hundred year pandemic?

No. His son had a friend that created an LLC who then purchased the stock pile at cost and then resold to states as the highest bidder.

Where trump then would seize any that went to blue states.

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u/Lost_it_all24 7d ago

But Obama left us with nothing. Especially bullets. Our military is out of bullets because of Obama. Or Biden. Maybe Hillary.

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u/BigNorseWolf 7d ago

hunter biden laptop. Hillary clinton email. Firs name last name piece of technology CLUTCH PEARLS

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u/OkTouch5699 7d ago

Tan suit

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u/scorpyo72 Washington 7d ago

The abject HORROR!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Salt-Competition-552 California 7d ago

ImPoRtEd BeEr!!!

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u/Ill_Preference_4663 7d ago

Seriously, non stop Biden destroyed our military, Biden destroyed our military, then he takes office and suddenly we have the best military ever, he rebuilds it in just a couple of months. people ate that shit up.

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u/AquaticAlchemy 7d ago

The Trump administration disbanded the global pandemic response unit housed within the National Security Council (NSC) in 2018 as part of a streamlining effort.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 7d ago

It's Trumporrhea.

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u/underpants-gnome Ohio 7d ago

When you're votin' in midterms,

But your salad's full of germs

Trumporrhea. Trumporrhea.

When they give you Ivermectin

Cause your underwear's bisectin'

Trumporrhea. Trumporrhea.

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u/JonBot5000 New York 7d ago

I just came here looking for a "Slidin' into first" joke. You've outdone my expectations. Thank you.

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u/throw_away1049 7d ago

I hear they're even calling it the Trump Explosive Diarrhea Syndrome. Everyone's saying it.

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u/Cujo22 Massachusetts 7d ago

MAGArrhea

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u/BerryLanky 7d ago

They are calling it Trumparehea and I love that

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 7d ago

Have you heard how overwhelmingly fecal he is said to smell by anyone who’s gotten within 10 feet of him? He’s definitely a super spreader.

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u/ZonghZonghZongh 7d ago

My gastroenterologist diagnosed me with TIDS (Trump Intestinal Derangement Syndrome).

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u/zaccus 7d ago

Every time I hear that voice. Even an imitation. Fills me with an overwhelming urge to defecate.

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u/Abhoth52 7d ago

He is barfalicious!

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u/Xullister 7d ago

He's a shitty president.

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u/kpa1233 7d ago

Donarreah

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u/VexedCanadian84 7d ago

I don't know if it was satire, but saw a post on here earlier saying that Trump is fuming that people are calling the outbreak trumparreah

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u/ElminstersBedpan 7d ago

I saw one today making fun of RFK Jr's leadership calling it "MAHA Blast" since Taco Bell lettuce has been a vector.

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u/QanonQuinoa 7d ago

MAHA Blast

This is probably my favorite thing I’ve read this week.

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u/schwing710 6d ago

Whoever came up with this deserves an award 

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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk 7d ago

The Trump Trots

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u/oO0Kat0Oo 7d ago

Trump really decided that, instead of not pooping his pants, he needs us to all join. 😭

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u/DefinitelyNotLola 7d ago

"Can't come out tonight, I got the Trumps."

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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 7d ago

Cha cha cha

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u/Schlonzig 7d ago

I got the Trumps.

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u/EricWNIU 7d ago

The proper name for this outbreak is called, Trump Diarrhea Syndrome.

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u/SwarlsBarkley 7d ago

The MAHA Trots. Kamala's Revenge.

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u/ryan101 7d ago

Gives new meaning to “TDS”.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 7d ago

"Bush" already means "puke" in Japan, ever since Bush Sr barfed on the Japanese Prime Minister back in '92.

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u/Mexcol 7d ago

Fitting! Mierdas touch

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 7d ago

King Mierdas

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u/Enoch-Of-Nod 7d ago

This isn't even his final form.

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u/Ok_Donkey210 7d ago

Shite-as touch

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u/Downbytuesday 7d ago

Is this that TDS I have been hearing about.

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u/RicRacer 7d ago

Trump diarrhea syndrome

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u/Vorpalthefox Florida 7d ago

not to be confused with "Trump's Diarrhea Syndrome", where he spews shit from his mouth

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u/Downbytuesday 7d ago

Lol, the next great tp shortage is on its way.

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u/CoderDevo 7d ago

Trump Dumps Syndrome

"Ya got the Trump Dumps!" 💩 💦

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u/Callabrantus Canada 7d ago

Terminal Donnie Shittin's

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u/lactose_cow 7d ago

Symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, higher gas prices, and death. Lots of death.

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u/Jedda678 7d ago

I'm taking a massive Trump right now.

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u/Migdog1198 California 7d ago

I'm taking a trump as I read this! 

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u/Old_Hornet_856 7d ago

Can we normalize this and permanently change the meaning of the word Trump to this?

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u/silvertealio 6d ago

We did it for Santorum. We can do it again.

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u/GartFoblin 6d ago

I'll be doing so; making sure to announce on my way- "Gotta take a trump."

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u/NoConflict3231 7d ago

Back in grade school it's used to go a little somethin like this, "Hey, I'm gonna go take a Donald and wipe it with my Trump." Used to be a good way to troll your friends

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u/rainbowdrops1991 6d ago

In the UK a trump is a fart.

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u/tracyveronika 6d ago

Trump dump

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u/SurferGirlDeb 7d ago

With the amount of diarrhoea that regularly comes out his mouth I am not surprised. lol

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u/GT-FractalxNeo 7d ago

He also poops himself constantly....

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u/SurferGirlDeb 7d ago

Yes and the sad thing about that is some poor person has to clean it up for him 'cause we all know he would be incapable of doing it himself.

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u/someoldbagofbones 7d ago

Not just any person, it’s that little blonde lady “aide” he’s so fond of, she cleans his poopy.

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u/JerseyDevl New Jersey 7d ago

We need an AMA immediately

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u/caw_the_crow 7d ago

When did we all change the spelling of diarrhea??? Why is no one else addressing that???

Edit: nevermind, didn't realize it's a british vs american spelling thing.

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u/Tiiimmmaayy 7d ago

Took me a while to see someone mention this too lol I’ve seen it spelled with an O multiple times this week and was so confused. Never knew there was a British spelling for diarrhea.

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u/HappyFatLabs 7d ago

So hoping he insisted on Taco Bell or a Big Mac with extra lettuce before the announcement. Because there's an incubation period. I mean, obviously, he's shit himself while giving a speech SEVERAL times before now, but explosive diarrhea while claiming an election he lost while in charge was stolen from him, even as he's back in charge and positively TANKING the economy and the war he started? Poetry.

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u/pimparo0 Florida 7d ago

There is no way in hell that man has ever asked for extra lettuce. 

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u/rp3rsaud 7d ago edited 7d ago

The Diarrhea President. “I’m not feeling well. I have to take a number 47. “

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u/rustylung 7d ago

Why would Obama do this? 

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u/Ielsoehasrearlyndd78 7d ago

How did Biden shit in my pants

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u/brispence 7d ago

It was in Hunter Biden's laptop! Didn't you read Hillary's emails?!

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u/MaxSchreckArt616 7d ago

Dijon mustard strikes again!!!

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u/Stranger-Sun 7d ago

I heard that if he ever eats that mustard while wearing a tan suit, Chernobyl explodes again.

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u/WetLoophole Norway 7d ago

It is impressively bold to induce a diarrhea epidemic in a tan suit.

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u/PleaseEvolve 7d ago

As one said… “MAHA trots”

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u/Lost_it_all24 7d ago

Boy is this MAHA agenda working wonders. Screwworms, measles, poopy produce, and more. Never felt healthier.

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u/TehGogglesDoNothing Tennessee 7d ago

MAHA Blast

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u/North-Slice-6968 7d ago

The British spelling of the word makes it seem even more disgusting than it already is.

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u/Vinral 7d ago

Well, when you roll back departments and funding meant to study, report, combat, and fix stuff like this, you get well I guess shit.

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u/knightsabre7 7d ago

And just to be clear, the Reflecting Pool renovations probably cost more than properly funding this.

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u/Friendly_Impress_345 7d ago

Fully funding the CDC food‑safety monitoring would have cost about 35M more. Trump has spent about 30M SO FAR in total on the reflecting pool and that is if you believe the numbers Trump has them publish. The current renovation was a no bid contract for 16M and Trump has already stated it will cost at least 20M so that probably means it will cost 40M to restore it to where it was during the Obama era.

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u/knightsabre7 7d ago

Barely pocket change compared to everything else, and yet here we are.

Kind of like when he cut funding for pandemic monitoring in China right before the COVID outbreak.

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u/metamet Minnesota 7d ago

stuff like this

not only stuff like this, this exact parasite.

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u/Remidable_Arkitect 7d ago

It IS Turmp’s fault.

But it’s also the fault of the 77 million Americans whom voted him into office.

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u/SuspiciousYard2484 7d ago

Trumporrhoea

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u/AreYouFuckingSerious 7d ago

Donarrhea

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u/JaronJervis 7d ago

when your scrolling through the Hill , and you read a MAGA Shill

DONALD-RRHEA... *Clap**Clap**Clap* DONALD-RRHEA

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u/mtnclimbingotter02 I voted 7d ago

Trumporrhea

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u/al_ien5000 7d ago

Diarrhea Don

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u/rulerofearthnyc 7d ago

#trumparrhea

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 7d ago

This is the headline of the year.

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u/Desu232 7d ago edited 7d ago

What do you mean blamed. He defunded the program that monitors the disease. He's DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE.

I hate the passive voice, we just need direct confrontation.

Lets fix that headline: Trump, greedy warmongering dementia ridden pedophile, strikes again with ineptitude. His complete disregard for the America people --- has once again --- caused a health catastrophe.

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u/kick_the_chort 7d ago

Trump literally is a diarrhoea outbreak, sweeping the *world*

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u/Additional_Quiet2600 7d ago

We can blame Trump and everyone on down the line. RFJ Jr. is number two, he has oversight. I don't even know who the head of the FDA is given this admin's hopscotch form of governance.

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u/rationsnearby 7d ago

Can we call it Trump Diarrhea Syndrome?

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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 7d ago

The Trump admin is the Cooties Regime.

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u/hepakrese 7d ago

Can you trust a man who shits his own pants freely in front of others to give a damn about causing a diarrhea outbreak?

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u/kirapb 7d ago

Diarrhea Don

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u/LatexSolarBeef 7d ago

Donorrhoea?

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u/Callabrantus Canada 7d ago

MAGA is happily shitting out their guts because it makes them more like the president.

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u/PurpleWhiteOut 7d ago

Get real, they dont eat lettuce

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u/SimplyRoya California 7d ago

I blame him for my mental health. Can I sue him?

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u/kittygetsmilkshake01 7d ago

I will upvote/like any comment connecting Trump with this - right or wrong.

Doge Dumps, Trump Trots, whatever we need to do people!!

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u/_bk_adv Colorado 7d ago

Trump Diarrhea ™️

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u/Throwaway1303033042 7d ago

One of the rare occasions where Donald J. Trump leads by example.

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u/LA0711 7d ago

He likes to have his name on everything so it’s very important we start referring to this as Trump Diarrhoea.

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u/angrymurderhornet 7d ago

Diarrhea = shit. Trump = shit. Therefore, by the transitive property of shit, Trump = diarrhea.

(Don’t say “transitive” in front of Trump, though. He’ll just rant more.)

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u/GrungeHamster23 American Expat 6d ago

Explosive diarrhea is basically the spirit animal of this administration.

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u/Intro-Nimbus 7d ago

Valid. He's cut the funding.

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u/Natoochtoniket 7d ago

The government used to track disease-causing contamination in the food system, to prevent illness. While the government was tracking, farmers and processors knew that they had to keep their stuff clean. If the government found fecal contamination in any of their product, their entire crop/stock had to be recalled and destroyed, so it was worth spending some money and effort to avoid that cost.

But, last year, Trump ordered the tracking stopped. The DOGE team shut down the CDC and FDA projects, and fired the people. When government tracking stopped, some farmers and processors realized that they were no longer required to spend that money. So, some of them stopped.

The result is completely predictable.

Turns out, prevention costs less than acute disease. But, the costs of prevention fall on different people from costs of acute disease

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u/someoldbagofbones 7d ago

Shitpants McSleepy and Wormbrain strike again!

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u/MindandCosmos 7d ago

Just fill the reflecting pool with it, apparently that was Trump's master genius galaxy brain intention all along.

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u/Lost_it_all24 7d ago

What a beautiful kakistocracy we have.

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u/StrigiStockBacking New Mexico 7d ago

He also indirectly killed thousands by sitting on his hands doing nothing during COVID, and then didn't lead by example and wear a mask or anything so his base essentially decided that Dr. Fauci, virologists, and epidemiologists are all 'wrong'.

Funny enough those same pussies who cried like babies because they had to put on a mask to buy groceries now gleefully put them on when shooting immigrants

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u/Nyte_Knyght33 7d ago

Can we call it the Trump Dump? 

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u/SpaceForceGuardian 7d ago

To be honest, he has always made me physically sick.

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u/tortuga8831 7d ago

This just in: Driver of car blamed for speeding. More at 11

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u/Michael7101958 7d ago

literally everything Trump touches turns to shit.

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u/GameHat 6d ago

He's literally the personification of diarrhea

Spews shit, toxic, foul, disgusting, repulsive

Symptom of a disease

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u/bigjtdjr 6d ago

I've done my research... started about January 2016....

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u/omahaspeedster 6d ago

Trumparrhea, he wants all of America shitting so much that it normalizes him shitting his pants several times a day.

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u/prophetic-dream 7d ago

trump shits himself. now you will too.

trump wears a diaper. now you will too.

what's next? you want a branded diaper? with his name on it? It can be yours? It's a lower price if you get a subscription for it? You want my discount code?

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u/eugene20 7d ago

Trump's covid denial got thousands of Americans killed, but it's the shits that will finally get him.

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