I just now saw the footage of President Trump having trouble with a ramp at West Point the other day. He also used both hands to lift his water to his mouth. This Jimmy Kimmel clipCombines this with the President holding his right arm oddly at some event.
Really, I am asking a factual question, but let me put it here in P&E. Is it now obvious the President has suffered a stroke?
I am no expert, but I am seeing weakness on one side of the body. Anyone know when this symptom appeared? I recall the President made an unexplained visit to Walter Reed late last year I think.
In this post I point out a video from 2017 where Trump is also having movement problems, so if there is a problem my guess would be that it wasn’t a sudden event but rather something getting progressively worse over time.
I mean honestly I don’t think there is enough evidence to do anything other than speculate at this point. I’m sure he’s not in perfect health but I’m not convinced he’s had a stroke.
Trump’s used two hands to drink water for at least several years now. I don’t think that’s indicative of anything. His weird stance is also an old habit. IMO he’s just an obese weirdo that’s obsessed about his image; he’s mortified of tripping or bumbling in public and overcompensates.
I suspect a thorough physical and psychological exam by qualified medical professionals would reveal a host of serious issues disqualifying him from public office.
Forget the exam, I want to sneak in his room like Gregory Peck in The Omen and snip enough hair away to reveal the three 6s.
Snark aside, there appears to be some abnormality in his movements. That ramp looked quite gentle and there’s no way it was slippery. Not sure what the difficulty with the glass was. Maybe he’s more used to drinking from a tippy cup. If that had been Hillary moving with such difficulty, the howls from the right would be deafening. He needs to make his medical records public.
To be fair to Ford, he was a varsity athlete. His portrayal as clumsy wasn’t at all fair, but it was funny. It’s funnier to mock someone for what he’s not than to mock him for what he is.
Not only Obama. I remember Dubya being a cycling freak, and I think he was a runner, too.
Sure, Ford played football for Michigan, but that was a long time before he hit the White House. Bush the First was on the Yale baseball team, but no one thinks of HIM as being particularly fit.
Might be my partisan bias, but it seems to me there was a lot more noise made out of Hillary supposedly looking weak or something, as opposed to the incumbent walking heart attack/stroke.
But maybe there just aren’t enough uncommitted voters to sway by portraying him as less capable than he clearly is.
When I saw the video, my first thought was that I would have had the same problem he did. I never had a stroke, but I do have balance problems. I suspect the main cause is peripheral neuropathy, which I have in spades. I cannot comfortably go down even two steps without a rail, or walk on uneven ground or go down such a ramp. I am slightly overweight, but not obese like Trump. Of course, I am also 9 years older.
If we consider the recent presidents from his day then he was the probably in better shape than any POTUS going back to the early part of the 20th century.
ETA. Maybe we would only have to go back to Truman? I’m not sure how his health was while POTUS but IIRC he did live quite a while after leaving office.
Don’t want to make any excuses for the cantalope, and I wish him the worst, but I’m glad I do not have cameras trained on me whenever I’m in public. Heck, I fell off my bike yesterday - can’t imagine what film-viewers would “diagnose” me with! :smack:
He played both ways , offense and defense , which was common back then. He was also a long snapper. He played on undefeated national champ Michigan teams in 1932 and 1933.