Trump’s off-the-cuff disclosure that he underwent an MRI scan is raising fresh questions about the secrecy surrounding Trump’s health and the need for presidents to be more transparent.
Trump is the oldest person to be elected president, and his aides and allies have long projected him as the picture of strength and vitality.
Outside physicians initially raised questions after Trump visited Walter Reed Military Medical Center earlier this month for what the White House described as a routine follow-up visit, though it was his second visit in six months.
If he were more transparent, he wouldn’t need an mri
'cause they could just see whatever it was
Don’t need an MRI to see he’s a piece of shit tho
…oh look, we’re talking about everything except the Epstein files…
I think the obvious and blatant dementia is a dead giveaway. It’s incredibly sad that we’d even consider having such a person well into decline in a position of leadership. He should be in a home receiving compassionate end-of-life care.
He should be in a home receiving compassionate end-of-life care.
The entirety of his life choices should have resulted in him dying in a jail cell.
If America still had balls, it would have been at the end of a noose on Jan 7th.
On Jan 6th if they had real ones.
Well, this is what the uninformed, deranged and single-minded 71+ some odd million people voted for. This is who they thought what was best for us.
Trump has done many firsts as president both times, mostly for the wrong things. I think we’re headed to what will happen when a president actually dies in office or is in a position where he decayed so much, he has to be formally removed or outright removed from office because he’s too incompetent and unfit to run. Not like he was competent or fit to run in the first place. But still.
And so we have learned; he is indeed incompetent and unfit, and America has decided that fealty to the bitter end is most important value.
Arguably, FDR during his 3rd term and Reagan during his 2nd were both possibly in similar situation of incapacitation (Biden near end of his term was also questionable). Neither was removed and the first ladies (Eleanor and Nancy) managed a lot of the work…since that is Melania it could explain the increased speed of Russian benefit actions coming from this administration. Additionally, the cabinet is corrupt and thus has no incentive for removal unless he starts getting in the way of the cabinets’ own goals.
They hid Reagan’s dementia for years. But, he had a pretty competent group in his administration, not like this trailer park clown show government.
Throw more leaves in the pool, Nancy.
In North Korea
Well, not sure how compassionate it should be. But yeah.
“You know I’m old, I know I’m old. I’m getting tests to confirm that I’m fit for the job. And they said I am.”
A normal human response that would have been fine. Why can’t he even act human?
“They said I’m human, the most human person they’ve ever seen. No other human came close.”
I hate how easy his speech pattern is to mock. Well ok not really…
He doesn’t do human.
He’s really proud of having undergone - and aced, according to him - two cognitive tests in one year. But he totally fails to see that this many such tests at such short intervals is a clear sign that his doctors are worried he’s actively going gaga.
Not to mention, acing a cognitive test is about as difficult as acing a patellar reflex test: it’s not a sign that you’re smart, it’s just proof that your noggin’ is still working correctly at a basic level.
Of course he’s proud! It’s probably the only test he’s ever passed.
“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” -One of his professors at Wharton
Oh his doctors know some shit but the issue is nobody will do anything about it because as soon as they do the house of cards will fall. I expect his inner circle has had to walk him back from the precipice several times. And there’s the rub. His handlers actually control most everything he sees, and when they don’t he sees riots in Portland from several years ago and thinks it’s current. As soon as he gets 25’d they lose all that power. Kinda like what was going on with Dianne Feinstein. She was barely lucid at the end and was being puppeteered by her staff.
You’ve obviously not done a full round of cognitive testing. Many people are surprised at how poorly they do the first time.
You’ve obviously not done a full round of cognitive testing.
Correct. You know why? Because unlike the POTUS, I don’t need to: nobody has any doubt about my mental faculties.
Many people are surprised at how poorly they do the first time.
I suspect part of the test is remembering the first time, and doing better the second time 🙂
Didn’t Regan have dementia by the end of his term? I’m assuming they are riding the useful idiot until the end.
Reagan had dementia but his particular flavor made him quiet and submissive.
Trump’s is making him agitated and aggressive, which so far hasn’t been a problem for his handlers, but it might become one soon.
There are many reasons why an 80 year old could need frequent MRIs. My mother has them every 6 months. The question no one is asking is where are they looking. If it’s the head, the are tracking the rate of loss of brain volume. Regardless, Ronald Reagan had dementia while in office, it just made him quiet and submissive. Trump has senile dementia onset irritability. It’s why he flies off and spews nonsense.
Maybe the US should stop electing the oldest government in the world?
The problem is that the largest voting bloc is the Baby Boomers and they’re just electing their peers because they refuse to recognize that they’re old enough that they should have passed that baton about 20 years ago. Not that Gen X would be substantially better given their demographic’s track record and history of lead poisoning during developmental periods, but it would at least be a slight nudge in the right direction. It’s going to be decades before the Millenials and younger have enough votes to overcome the older, more conservative blocs, but that’s not accounting for the proportion of younger people that have been entirely brainwashed by monsters like Kirk, Tate, and Fuentes.
This is not new. Pretty sure they did the same thing for Reagan and Biden. Doesn’t mean it’s right, just not unprecedented.
