Jerome Adams: I Can't Shake The Stench!

Can you understand the pain I've faced?

Unfortunately, a Black independent who was a part of Washed Up 45's coronavirus response team is feeling the aftermath of ineffective leadership. Dr. Jerome Adams returned to Indianapolis a broken man.

He was ridiculed by his former friends and blacklisted by employers all because he refused to take on misinformation being spewed by the former president during the pandemic which under his watch killed 523,000 Americans.

As of today, the coronavirus has killed 1.15 million Americans.

As the former Surgeon General,  Adams says he is still feeling the impact of the “Trump hangover,” nearly two years out from his stint in the administration.

“People still are afraid to touch anything that is associated with Trump,” Adams told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday.

The reporter asked my wife if she would mind being interviewed about her metastatic melanoma recurrence for their “Style” section (eg weddings and recipes and family stories). Seems harmless, no? They asked to interview me after her- and I did. To support my wife.
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— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) November 26, 2022

Plenty believe there’s no media bias, & no such thing as “TDS” (which I know isn’t a real medical diagnosis, but comes closer to describing this phenomenon than anything else I can think of). Yet it hurts our ability to talk rationally & respectfully abt health (or anything).
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— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) November 26, 2022

My wife is having surgery on Monday. So if you’re one of those reporters/ media outlets sharing her story, please mention HER, and her cancer. And if you’re only engaging/ responding because you hate Trump, please understand you are being played, and are part of the problem.
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— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) November 26, 2022

Oh- and to all the many people who have reached out to wish us well (because the media and social media amplify the trolls and the bad- yet there IS a lot of good out there).🙏🏽

The only way to stop negativity is to drown it out with positivity.

Have a great weekend! pic.twitter.com/fwZTj8Y8UQ

— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) November 26, 2022

Adams, who served as surgeon general for nearly all of former Washed Up 45’s term, said he had a difficult time finding a position in academia or the corporate world after he left the administration.

“It was a lot harder than he thought to find a landing spot because of the Trump Effect,” his wife, Lacey Adams, told the Post.

Adams was eventually hired as the executive director of health equity initiatives at Purdue University, where former Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels serves as president.

He was scared to tell the former president he was wrong.

While the former surgeon general clarified to the Post that he was “not complaining” about his current situation, Adams noted that “it is context.”

“[Trump is] a force that really does take the air out of the room,” he said.

The former president announced his third bid for the presidency last week, a move that Adams said will likely “make things more difficult” for him. 

After the piece went out, he was met with trolls calling him a traitor, an Uncle Tom, a coon, a Never Trumper, a sell out, a moron and numerous remarks.

He took to social media to blast The Washington Post claiming they twisted his words.

Jerome Adams, a portrait in cowardice.