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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    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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    The remarks appeared to be connected to the Right to Try Act, legislation Trump signed during his first administration that allows terminally ill patients to pursue experimental treatments not yet fully approved.

    There ya go, just another scam in the end

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

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    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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      Our president is a snake oil salesman. Not even a new thing for him either. This is definitely part of some money making scheme just like his quinine bullshit.

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    someone has asked chatgpt “can this drug bring people back to life?” 😂

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    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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      Indeed they do. Their entire world view is based on magical thinking. Its not unique to trump sycophants either. Being raised in a religion trains the brain to believe in magic. It’s all so silly.

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      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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        That’s alright, the patient can then start a new career in politics where possession of a functional frontal lobe is considered detrimental to career progression.