Later this evening on Fox News, the so-called president of the United States, Donald Trump, will get what’s being billed as a “medical exam” during Tucker Carlson’s show, Business Insider reports:
“President Donald Trump will appear in an on-camera interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Friday, the network announced.
“Fox News said its resident medical expert, Dr. Marc Siegel, would ‘conduct a medical evaluation and interview’ of the president during the show.”
Specifically, Siegel will ask Trump some questions and make a diagnosis based on what the president tells him, even though the good doctor has no credibility whatsoever:
“Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone, has spread coronavirus misinformation in the past. Like Trump, he has repeatedly pushed the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment in Fox News interviews, and in March he falsely claimed that the disease was no worse than the flu.”
Sounds totally legit, huh? Twitter certainly thought so, and mockery ensued:
How I imagine any “exam” involving Trump pic.twitter.com/iVyVbBCRTU
— KylaABee (@SquishyCat44) October 9, 2020
Trump getting his medical exam on Fox. Umm yeah that’s validating! pic.twitter.com/sZSijI726W
— Julie Lerman (@julielerman) October 9, 2020
Fox TV and Trump’s Exam with Dr Smoctor. pic.twitter.com/wvvZ9YVl1d
— Jswilks (@JWilks1955) October 9, 2020
Hey, tune into FOX!!! TRUMP IS GOING TO HAVE AN EXAM: pic.twitter.com/AgnC77mhNI
— The GREAT Houdini (@TheGREATHoudin2) October 9, 2020
the fox news team heading into trump’s colon for tonight’s on-air medical exam. pic.twitter.com/b46kuxQXsa
— john feat. alan howarth (@johnsemley3000) October 9, 2020
Speaking only for myself (though I’m quite certain others feel the same), there’s not any damn part of a Trump physical exam that should be shown on television at any time of the day. I’d just as soon watch scavengers eat the ass end of a roadkill armadillo.