Continuing his Twitter rant started on Friday, demanding that American healthcare workers infected with the Ebola virus not be allowed back into the country for treatment, bombastic businessman Donald Trump tweeted that healthcare workers "must suffer the consequences," for their humanitarian impulses.
Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly recently returned to the U.S. and is currently being treated in an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Nancy Writebol, a missionary working for U.S. charity Samaritan’s Purse, is due to arrive in the U.S. on Tuesday for treatment.
Prior to the arrival of both patients, Trump tweeted that he was less than sympathetic to their situation, writing they should "suffer the consequences."
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2014
Possibly more disturbing would be the 791 people who flagged the tweet as a 'favorite.'
Trump continued with his tweets through the weekend, retweeting comments disparaging his critics as "do-gooders' and "idiots," referring to Ebola as a "plague," and approvingly retweeting that those who went to Africa to help "choose (sic) it freely."
See below:
The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our "borders." Act fast!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2014
"@BigBoie7531: To all the liberal do gooders, this is the Plague you idiots! No cure! @ You may have confidence in the CDC, but I don't!"— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2014
The fact that we are taking the Ebola patients, while others from the area are fleeing to the United States, is absolutely CRAZY-Stupid pols— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2014
"@BerryBrite1: @realDonaldTrump They knew the risk when they went to Africa. They choose it freely."— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2014
