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applegrove

(130,226 posts)
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 12:54 PM Mar 2025

MAJOR BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life

MAJOR BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life saving equipment if he agreed to praise him on the Sunday talk shows.

Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T15:56:12.623Z


MAJOR BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life saving equipment if he agreed to praise him on the Sunday talk shows.

Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?
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MAJOR BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2025 OP
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #1
Not me Demovictory9 Mar 2025 #38
I'm shocked!! Omnipresent Mar 2025 #2
... Celerity Mar 2025 #72
Yes. MissB Mar 2025 #3
The two aren't mutually exclusive. MLWR Mar 2025 #50
JB bought a lot of PPE for ourvstate with his own money. Bluethroughu Mar 2025 #4
trump sent jb a lot of junk -- broken machines etc orleans Mar 2025 #59
Yes...that is what happened. Bluethroughu Mar 2025 #61
i love pritzker -- we are sooo lucky to have him. nt orleans Mar 2025 #63
I know he'd make an excellent President, but I would miss him here Bluethroughu Mar 2025 #65
See My Post #90 about the DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #91
I don't remember hearing how JB paid for it. ShazzieB Mar 2025 #84
trump is kacekwl Mar 2025 #5
Agreed. One of the worst humans ever. A self-promonting, self-dealing huskster who now owns the rethug party. brush Mar 2025 #32
Actually, he may be the worst Wifes husband Mar 2025 #44
I can't disagree. He was a horror to his father even who sent the boy to military school... brush Mar 2025 #47
Mary Trump had some interesting things to say about that. ShazzieB Mar 2025 #83
boys are sent to military academies when they are kicked out of other private schools rampartd Mar 2025 #87
The donald is certainly moving Adolf Hitler aside for the top spot. calimary Mar 2025 #53
T💩p's niece would agree with you. Not one redeeming quality. OMGWTF Mar 2025 #64
Extortion bucolic_frolic Mar 2025 #6
Both. surfered Mar 2025 #7
Both plus some ingredients humans are not supposed have... MiHale Mar 2025 #8
the answer is both WhiteTara Mar 2025 #9
This. fierywoman Mar 2025 #73
JB seems completely intent on provoking Trump into a response, but Trump has thus far Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #10
Chump recognizes that JB Pritzker is a true leader and a true billionaire FakeNoose Mar 2025 #20
Leads me to believe there's no kompromat on Pritzker Arazi Mar 2025 #29
He never stops marketing. Passages Mar 2025 #11
"Thanks for the votes...suckers ":Trump. oasis Mar 2025 #12
*Everything* is transactional for Trump. keep_left Mar 2025 #13
Would be nice to have TSF on a recording. bluestarone Mar 2025 #14
That's something AI has ruined. Marcuse Mar 2025 #30
Those things aren't mutually exclusive progressoid Mar 2025 #15
Took the words out of my mouth. or should i say out of my keyboard. Amaryllis Mar 2025 #25
Dual-diagnosis: both deranged and evil Hekate Mar 2025 #16
"Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?" angrychair Mar 2025 #17
¿Porque no los dos? alterfurz Mar 2025 #86
Anybody who's surprised by this, hasn't been paying attention. (nt) Paladin Mar 2025 #18
Probably should have mentioned this in October Polybius Mar 2025 #19
Gov. Pritzker probably has told people, but the media never picked up on it FakeNoose Mar 2025 #23
Because a billionaire governor couldn't have gotten attention on this EdmondDantes_ Mar 2025 #27
Most toxic person i ever randomly bumped into IRL JCMach1 Mar 2025 #21
WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? BoRaGard Mar 2025 #22
Both malaise Mar 2025 #24
You don't even have to ask. dchill Mar 2025 #26
This is old news. GoCubsGo Mar 2025 #28
Evil and completely deranged. spanone Mar 2025 #31
Evil Kali999 Mar 2025 #33
Both claudette Mar 2025 #34
Not deranged, but an enormous narcissist sakabatou Mar 2025 #35
Humble Don shuns praise and gladly admits it when he's wrong about anything. Ping Tung Mar 2025 #36
Why is this the first we've heard of it? Vinca Mar 2025 #37
Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?" Ray Bruns Mar 2025 #39
Both Grim Chieftain Mar 2025 #48
Everything is a transaction. no_hypocrisy Mar 2025 #40
Definitely what 25th Amendment proponents had in mind. Sneederbunk Mar 2025 #41
Everyone who signs on with Trump is compromised. The Wizard Mar 2025 #77
They often occur together Lulu KC Mar 2025 #42
They aren't mutually exclusive. n/t whopis01 Mar 2025 #43
You are making a large mistake here... jmowreader Mar 2025 #45
You can be deranged and evil at the same time jgmiller Mar 2025 #46
Does not surprise me in the least dawgdan Mar 2025 #49
Both. Joinfortmill Mar 2025 #51
Evil. All evil directed toward humans in this country is deranged. ancianita Mar 2025 #52
krasnov is both evil and insane. They are not mutually exclusive. niyad Mar 2025 #54
Both, evil and completely fucking deranged. Escurumbele Mar 2025 #55
Evil AND fucking deranged. Martin68 Mar 2025 #56
What a fucking crybully. DinahMoeHum Mar 2025 #57
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #58
It needs to stop Bvb1979 Mar 2025 #60
Both. Cha Mar 2025 #62
Empathy is an unknown trait HipChick Mar 2025 #66
During the Covid Pandemic DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #67
"Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?" Each trait is not mutually exclusive. Texin Mar 2025 #68
Yes Katcat Mar 2025 #69
Quid pro quo, Baby! Brother Buzz Mar 2025 #70
SADIST! BigmanPigman Mar 2025 #71
He's a total fucking asshole for sure! Initech Mar 2025 #74
Why can't he be both? I say both! n/t aggiesal Mar 2025 #75
My state's governor is the best. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2025 #76
I won't even give that motherfucker the benefit of calling him "evil." BigDemVoter Mar 2025 #78
The fact that DJT, Vance, Miller, Elon and a dozen others are still alive puzzles me. nt Jit423 Mar 2025 #79
Yes Mad_Machine76 Mar 2025 #80
He's just Donald Trump. That is literally who he is... debsy Mar 2025 #81
Apparently he's a Malignant Narcissist: Dave Bowman Mar 2025 #82
A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT JB. WHY DIDN'T YOU REVEAL THIS BEFORE ELECTION?? spudspud Mar 2025 #85
Better yet DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #90
Ah yes, what Dump voters love mdbl Mar 2025 #88
He is a psychopath. NH Ethylene Mar 2025 #89
He's both. SammyWinstonJack Mar 2025 #92
Being a sadist JustAnotherGen Mar 2025 #93
Well... the two options AREN'T necessarily mutually exclusive Montauk6 Mar 2025 #94
Do what I want and you'll get what you beg for. Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #95
Deranged & evil! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #96
I'm Shocked... AndyTiedye Mar 2025 #97

orleans

(36,668 posts)
59. trump sent jb a lot of junk -- broken machines etc
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:19 PM
Mar 2025

and then i remember pritzker had to do a secret flight with the equipment he bought otherwise trump fuckers were going to confiscate it; i think it arrived in the middle of the night in illinois

(but i don't remember he paid for it with his own money)

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
61. Yes...that is what happened.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:35 PM
Mar 2025

Trump is a murder. He murdered over a million people, now he's deporting people to El Salvador gulags...I hate him.

JB did pay with his own funds to get PPE to our state. It accidently came out. He did it on the hush.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
65. I know he'd make an excellent President, but I would miss him here
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:41 PM
Mar 2025

Caring for IL. He's one of the greatest Governors in our State history.

ShazzieB

(22,205 posts)
84. I don't remember hearing how JB paid for it.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 10:32 PM
Mar 2025

But I can easily believe him paying for it out of his own pocket. He's enough of a mensch to do that.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
32. Agreed. One of the worst humans ever. A self-promonting, self-dealing huskster who now owns the rethug party.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:40 PM
Mar 2025

Wifes husband

(694 posts)
44. Actually, he may be the worst
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:09 PM
Mar 2025

I think you can make an argument that trump is the worst public figure in history.

Seriously. I cannot think of a single positive character trait that he has. Not one. I honestly believe he is unique

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
47. I can't disagree. He was a horror to his father even who sent the boy to military school...
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:19 PM
Mar 2025

Last edited Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:26 AM - Edit history (1)

because he was uncontrollable.

ShazzieB

(22,205 posts)
83. Mary Trump had some interesting things to say about that.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 10:28 PM
Mar 2025

From Who Could Ever Love You by Mary L. Trump, p. (copied and pasted from my Kindle ebook copy):

The trouble with Donald had started long before he entered school. At home, he tormented his little brother, Robert, a year and a half younger, and seemed to have nothing but disdain for everybody else, including, and perhaps especially, his mother. The kids in the neighborhood alternately despised and feared him; he had a reputation for being a thin-skinned bully who beat up on younger kids but ran home in a fit of rage as soon as somebody stood up to him.

Nobody liked Donald when he was growing up, not even his parents. As he got older, those personality traits hardened, the hostile indifference and aggressive disrespect that he’d developed as a toddler to help him withstand the neglect he suffered at his parents’ hands—from his mother because she was seriously ill and psychologically unstable, and from his father because, as a sociopath, he had no interest in his children outside of Freddy, who, at least initially, was being groomed to take over his empire. Even so, the interest wasn’t love—Fred Trump was incapable of loving anybody.

Donald’s reputation at school also preceded me. By second grade he was already known as a troublemaker who contradicted his teachers and resorted to physical violence when he didn’t get his way. He treated students who were smaller and weaker than he was, and his teachers, with the same contempt with which he treated his family. After he finished seventh grade, despite my grandfather’s place on the board, the school administrators made it clear that other accommodations had to be made for Fred’s obnoxious middle son.

Instead of fixing the problem, moving Donald to another school only transferred it elsewhere. At the time my father was mystified by the fact that Fred couldn’t control Donald, but I suspect my grandfather didn’t want to waste his time trying. He was happy to delegate the responsibility to the staff at New York Military Academy, a boarding school in central New York State that was essentially a rich kids’ alternative to reform school. Everybody in the family, especially his mother, was relieved when Donald was sent away.

So yeah, Donald was a monster from early on. Instead of doing anything about it, Fred finally sent him away because the school he was attending made it clear he was no longer welcome there (even though Fred was on the board of directors).

rampartd

(3,754 posts)
87. boys are sent to military academies when they are kicked out of other private schools
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 07:42 AM
Mar 2025

it supposedly develops "discipline." did not work in this case.

calimary

(89,034 posts)
53. The donald is certainly moving Adolf Hitler aside for the top spot.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:47 PM
Mar 2025

Maybe they’ll have adjoining rooms in Hell.

surfered

(11,464 posts)
7. Both.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:04 PM
Mar 2025

He blackmailed Zelenskyy for made up political dirt on Biden in exchange for weapons authorized by Congress.

The guy has no morals or ethics. Bolton said it, “The only thing Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump.”

Narcissistic sociopath!

MiHale

(12,618 posts)
8. Both plus some ingredients humans are not supposed have...
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:05 PM
Mar 2025

He makes Satan look like a playful kitten.

Prairie Gates

(7,175 posts)
10. JB seems completely intent on provoking Trump into a response, but Trump has thus far
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:08 PM
Mar 2025

not really addressed him or responded to him at all.

It's a very odd dynamic.

FakeNoose

(40,147 posts)
20. Chump recognizes that JB Pritzker is a true leader and a true billionaire
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:22 PM
Mar 2025

... and it probably scares the shit out of Chump, since he is neither.

Arazi

(8,695 posts)
29. Leads me to believe there's no kompromat on Pritzker
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:39 PM
Mar 2025

So he has no leverage to control him.

Plus he’s a legit billionaire who can’t be bought

oasis

(53,347 posts)
12. "Thanks for the votes...suckers ":Trump.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:12 PM
Mar 2025

Late information on Trump’s devious mental state ain’t doing us a bit of good post 2024 election.

keep_left

(3,158 posts)
13. *Everything* is transactional for Trump.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:12 PM
Mar 2025

Absolutely everything. Remember when numerous states had to use Bourne Identity levels of spycraft to evade the Trump regime's confiscation of PPE and medical equipment during Covid?! (They shipped it off to China, which was probably part of some quid pro quo).

All kinds of largely-undisclosed spycraft was used to get PPE and other supplies where they needed to go. I recall at the time that they were using vinyl shrink-wrapped semi trailers to disguise them as commercial shipping companies, and there was at least one story I saw that said encrypted tactical radios were employed...

https://democraticunderground.com/100217507305
https://democraticunderground.com/100217507305#post57
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/21/states-smuggle-covid-19-medical-supplies-to-avoid-federal-seizures-as-house-probes-jared-kushner/

bluestarone

(21,140 posts)
14. Would be nice to have TSF on a recording.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:12 PM
Mar 2025
Everyone that even talks with him needs to have a phone recording his evil voice.

Polybius

(21,509 posts)
19. Probably should have mentioned this in October
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:22 PM
Mar 2025

Last edited Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Not that it would have changed anything though.

FakeNoose

(40,147 posts)
23. Gov. Pritzker probably has told people, but the media never picked up on it
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:27 PM
Mar 2025

Until now, that is. JB knows that Chump is just a two-bit con artist.

EdmondDantes_

(1,349 posts)
27. Because a billionaire governor couldn't have gotten attention on this
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:33 PM
Mar 2025

Putting it out now is fairly pointless. Like we didn't all already know Trump is directly transactional and needs to be told he's special by everyone?

GoCubsGo

(34,663 posts)
28. This is old news.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:37 PM
Mar 2025

Gov. Pritzker has been saying this since the pandemic. He also told us at the time that all the ventilators Trump sent were broken. So, the Governor was forced to go out and purchase ventilators with state funds.

Ping Tung

(4,137 posts)
36. Humble Don shuns praise and gladly admits it when he's wrong about anything.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:50 PM
Mar 2025

Now, you want to buy a genuine Rolox watch and a beautiful painting of Malibu by Van Gosh in the trunk of my '55 Plymouth Fury?

Sneederbunk

(17,254 posts)
41. Definitely what 25th Amendment proponents had in mind.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:01 PM
Mar 2025

However, they did not consider there being a cabinet as deranged and evil as he is.

jmowreader

(52,897 posts)
45. You are making a large mistake here...
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:12 PM
Mar 2025

…in assuming “evil” and “completely fucking deranged” are mutually exclusive conditions. It is possible to be evil and not deranged, or deranged and not evil.

Trump is both at the same time, which is worrisome because he’s got the Marines on speed dial.

jgmiller

(670 posts)
46. You can be deranged and evil at the same time
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 02:19 PM
Mar 2025

I think it might be a requirement of all dictators too

Response to applegrove (Original post)

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
67. During the Covid Pandemic
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:50 PM
Mar 2025

Along with many other BLUE states, Massachusetts got NO PPE from Ivanka and Jared, and DeSantis in Florida got THREE times what he needed in PPE........
Mass's Governor finally got a private party to have his planes fly in shipments. Ivanka and Jared were intercepting ALL shipments of PPE at U.S. Customs, taking them and selling them. The Patriot's? owner who owned the planes, ordered them to fly directly from China to Boston International, and not to stop at custom's where the PPE would be confiscated by Trump's incestuous spawn daughter and Jared.
He kept them away from the terminal and customs, surrounded the planes with the ARMED MASS National Guard, Pulled up and unloaded the PPE onto HIS trucks, and had the State Patrol, fully armed,, escort the PPE to where it could be distributed to hospitals.

New York and Mass were hit extremely hard with all the passengers flooding into New York, and Massachusetts from Europe..... Same with California and Seattle because Trump didn't stop air traffic from China....... with no PPE they were devastated, which was the intention of Trump......
No problem............ All four were BLUE STATES..........

Texin

(2,831 posts)
68. "Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?" Each trait is not mutually exclusive.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 03:54 PM
Mar 2025

BigDemVoter

(4,676 posts)
78. I won't even give that motherfucker the benefit of calling him "evil."
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 07:49 PM
Mar 2025

He's just simple, colossally stupid, and endlessly selfish. He remains a spoiled shit-head, not unlike the little pissy bitch-boy he was when he cried for his daddy to get him out of Vietnam. He thinks the world owes him something.

Dave Bowman

(6,627 posts)
82. Apparently he's a Malignant Narcissist:
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 09:24 PM
Mar 2025

From last October.

200 mental health professionals signed an open letter concluding that Dump was a Malignant Narcissist.
...
"Malignant narcissism is considered a combination of the above personality disorders, in addition to the sadistic urge to inflict pain towards others while gaining pleasure from doing so. For instance, the letter states: “According to first-hand accounts, Trump watched the violence he unleashed on January 6 for three hours on TV with ‘glee’, watching his favorite parts ‘over and over’ on ‘rewind’.”

https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/october/trump-malignant-narcissism-ethics

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
90. Better yet
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:09 AM
Mar 2025

was what the Governor of Massacussets and the Owner of the Patriots? had to do during the Pandemic.......

Along with many other BLUE states, Massachusetts got NO PPE from Ivanka and Jared,......... and DeSantis in Florida got THREE times what he needed in PPE........
Mass's Governor finally got a private party to have his planes fly in shipments. Please Note That Ivanka and Jared were intercepting ALL shipments of PPE at U.S. Customs, confiscating them and then selling them. The Patriot's? owner who owned the planes, ordered them to fly directly from China to Boston International, and not to stop at custom's where the PPE would be confiscated by Trump's incestuous spawn daughter and Jared.
He kept them away from the terminal and customs, surrounded the planes with the ARMED MASS. National Guard, Pulled up and unloaded the PPE onto Semi trucks, and had the State Patrol, fully armed,, escort the PPE to where it could be distributed to hospitals.

New York and Mass were hit extremely hard with all the passengers flooding into New York, and Massachusetts from Europe..... Same with California and Seattle because Trump didn't stop air traffic from China....... with no PPE these states were devastated, which was the intention of Trump......

No problem............ All four were BLUE STATES..........

mdbl

(8,107 posts)
88. Ah yes, what Dump voters love
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:37 AM
Mar 2025

Governing by vengeance and retribution - against law abiding citizens by a convicted felon and lying con-artist.

NH Ethylene

(31,289 posts)
89. He is a psychopath.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:49 AM
Mar 2025

He doesn't care if people live or die, only how they can serve his interests.

Kid Berwyn

(22,890 posts)
95. Do what I want and you'll get what you beg for.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 12:20 PM
Mar 2025

So what if a million Americans died needlessly? We're talking about making Trump happy!

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