President Donald Trump made a striking claim during a recent White House press event, telling those gathered that an unnamed new drug has the ability to bring patients back from death’s door.

“We know the drug works,” Trump, 79, said during the press conference at the White House on Monday, May 11, per a clip shared on X. “We’ve taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites — gone, the kids are crying and everything — and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works.”

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[–] 56 points 5 months ago

I can’t do this timeline.

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  • [–] [S] 48 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    What do you think he was talking about with his doctor that made them bring up a drug that brings people back from the dead?

    The president went on to address how such medications get tested, adding, “And some [drugs] don’t work. You learn very fast. It’s called the ultimate test, I think, right? They test all these things. They use animals all over the place, they use everything to test because a person’s going to die.”

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Might have been some crank lobbying Trump to allow the sale of a particular snake oil.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I thought he was on the outs with Joe because Joe said less than perfect things about him that one time

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  • [–] 90 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    How? How the fuck can anyone listen to this cunt and think "yep, this is the guy who should be president!"
    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So Trump flatlined and they brought him back? Big mistake if so.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    After all that has happened I would only be slightly surprised if the Trump regime starts a zombie apocalypse.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The turnip saw someone wake up from anesthesia...

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    This is 100% because scientists from Cuba (and Argentina) have just revealed a potential cure for some kinds of lung cancer

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t know if any of this stupid discussion is real, but if it is, then we also have time travel, because the post mentions that the zombie drug was announced on May 11.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Not the flex he thinks it is

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    yeah you know what with the way things have been going at this point it honestly wouldn't surprise me if the Umbrella Corporation actually existed an the T-Virus was a real thing. I'm just waiting for them to announce a couple dudes named Spencer and Wesker being named to some position in the administration.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Finally an interesting timeline. Anyone wanna go strategically scatter health packs and ammunition with me?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    next he is gonna say they had chatgpt discover it.

    seriously though he is probably using a very loose definition of death like "heart stopped 1ms ago" under which umbrella we already have shots like adrenaline.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    The possible of death are many.

    A single drug could never avert all possible causes.

    He and his followers believe in magic.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    After several minutes it's meaningless to restart a heart anyway, as irreversible brain damage will occur. We already can restart a recently stopped heart by injecting them with epinephrine (adrenaline.)

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    He watched Pulp Fiction. That's it.

    That's the whole story.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    It's a trap! It gives dead people autism.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    It's like his dementia and fear are reaching out directly to the voters.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    You now what I don't believe you Krasnov. Prove it yourself.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Oh boy, can he die and show us how it works?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Zombie apocalypse is upon us, yay!

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    he means the ones hes taking now, cocaine and adderall.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    We are so blessed to be living in a time where the president of the United States says these things. Lmfo. :)

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    I doubt that Trump is brave enough to demonstrate it though

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I was sort of wondering if maybe he was saying it with hyperbole. Like the drug is very effective and people who you thought weren't going to recover from a terrible condition do with this drug. But no, he's literally saying that they're dead and have been dead for a while by the sounds of it and then someone injects the corpse with this and then they're alive again.

    I'm gonna go ahead and say that that is the most transparent lie he's come up with so far, and he's had some doozies. I also think we should test it on him.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We're posting tabloids now?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Test it on yourself Donald, on camera, for all to see.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    He always tells on himself. So they are keeping him going with a drug cocktail. We assumed as much.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    We shall call it: Reanimator

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