President Donald Trump, still ill and contagious, and still on medication for the coronavirus has flip flopped on negotiations over a new Covid-relief bill. Last week Trump had signaled he would sign a bill that included $400 a week in benefits to jobless Americans and urged Congress to pass it. But on Tuesday he abruptly called off all negotiations saying on Twitter, “I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business.” The stock market dropped precipitously and then hours later a president that many fear is even more unstable than usual, reversed course on Tuesday night tweeting that he wanted Congress to “IMMEDIATELY” approve an aid bill for the airline industry. About half an hour after that tweet he added that he wanted a bill that only included a new stimulus payment of $1,200 sent to all Americans. He directly addressed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying, “I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening Nancy?” leaving Americans to wonder if he expected Ms. Pelosi to magically appear at the doors of the White House late at night, bill in hand. 

Doctors who have experience treating the coronavirus are expressing serious concern about the President’s behavior and Pelosi wondered whether Trump’s dose of the strong steroid medication Dexamethasone was impacting his decision-making ability. Writing in Rolling Stone songwriter Andrew Leahey explained that he had been prescribed the same drug and said that, “just like Trump, it made me feel invincible,” as well as, “unencumbered, unafraid, limitless.” As if to echo such fears, Trump spewed a firehose of more than 50 tweets on Wednesday – all before lunch time. It is very possible that Trump, who advised Americans not to be afraid of the coronavirus, will recover considering he was given cutting-edge experimental treatment that almost no other Americans have access to. One medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania said, “I think there is something wrong with the privileged, the president, getting special treatment that’s not available to the rest of us…There’s so much injustice in our healthcare system, with so many people not even having access to the basics.” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted, “Mr. President: You attack ‘socialized medicine’ every single day. Well, let’s be clear. The excellent care you received at Walter Reed was at a 100% government-funded, government run hospital. For Trump, ‘socialized medicine’ is bad for everyone but himself. Total hypocrisy!” And it has now emerged that Trump was treated with the