Trump on the opioid crisis...

"It's really, really easy not to take them."

Honestly... am I in the Twilight Zone here? Is this guy really our President? Did he really say that, or am I just hallucinating? 

I cannot even describe how stupid this is. I can imagine walking up to some of my clients and saying this. 

This is stupidity at the highest level. Just straight up moronic level stupidity that cannot be matched. It will never be topped by any President. EVER.

This is not something a President would normally say. Normal being any other time in history. This is something that a buffoon would say. An idiot. A moron. An imbecile. I cannot believe this reality I am living right now.

Compare Trump’s full remarks to what SteelCash said 

You liberals just jump on anything he says without even thinking about it. Hell I had the best pain doctor in the area for 5-6 years until I finally saw how brutal everything about me had become and did the embarrassing rehab thing last year. Doc gave me a fake injury and 180 mgs of Roxie’s a day along with 3 bars haha. So I have been hooked hard and obviously had friends then that were. Something I picked up in rehab is people that have never done a hard drug honestly have zero clue about it. I was with people shooting up and was honestly shocked that one girl who was a veterinarian would take USED animal needles when she ran out of them!! I have no clue how anyone could get that bad but I’m sure my wife, sister, and mom wondered the same about me!! Haha.

It is very easy not to take them !  Opioids cause side effects for a reason. Duh !!!!   Only people who are getting screwed are the people who really need the meds !!!  People aren't overdosing from oxycodone or vicodin. Less than 3% of those people go on to heroin . I love how people make comments about opioids but have never been on them for an extended period of time. It's an absolute joke!!!!!!!

The Guy is a POS 

This thread is a great example of how divided this country is and how a really cancerous jerk as president is making the divide more personal and much worse. 

Exactly..he is not talking about people already hooked on drugs..but people who haven't started and he is right..

The far left just loves to take things out on context .. esp. if it has anything to do about President Trump..........they are such hateful  people....

The president suggested that targeted advertising campaigns could curtail opioid use.

 “The fact is, if we can teach young people — and people, generally – not to start, it’s really, really easy not to take them,” he said. “Really tough, really big, really great advertising, so we get to people before they start, so they don’t have to go through the problems of what people are going through.”

Trump believes that he would have been an alcoholic if he drank. But he never drank. He has a tremendous amount of empathy for alcoholics and addicts because he loved his brother Fred and he watched him suffer. I’ve read a few stories of Trump’s friends asking him to talk to their kids that are struggling. 

Wallstreetcappers writes a book about something that Trump never said. 

President Trump is doing the right thing ..talking down drugs...

His predecessor talked about taking drugs well into his second term..like he was proud of it..like it was a right of passage for a young man...


"There were times when I got into drinking, experimenting with drugs. There was a stretch of time where I did not really apply myself," Obama said.


“I inhaled — that was the point.”  said Obama.


"I had learned not to care," he wrote. "I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow (cocaine) when you could afford it. Not smack,(heroin) though. ...wrote Obama.

Trump isn’t making light of a very serious issue. 

Shouldn’t be hard to find. Everything Trump says is available, in full context, on YouTube. 

Where is the full context for this statement? 

He nails it here. 

Walls have been proven to be an effective tool across the globe. 

Many many walls have been very effective throughout history. 

Do I have to prove walls work (they do)? 

No emergency declaration can do much to reduce the impact of oploid addiction without increased federal funding for medical treatment.  For example, improved access to naloxine drug can quickly counteract effects of oploid overdoses.  Otherwise deaths will remain at record levels.

Getting tough on drug dealers and getting tough on the border can do a lot to reduce overdoses.