# So Trump is healthier than we thought… **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 25, 2026, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953 "2026-02-25T08:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/41 "2026-02-26T00:24:27Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > It has always been my opinion that they are desperately hanging on until after the mid-terms so that if they have to remove Trump for health or other reasons, Vance will be able to serve 2 full terms. Who’s “they” because I don’t see why anyone would think Vance is the future of the party. If anything Trump’s death is going to be like when the emperor died in The Dark Crystal. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/42 "2026-02-26T00:29:11Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I think that’s what having a professional apply his makeup will do for him. Yeah, I think you’re right about that. Several people told me that today. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/43 "2026-02-26T00:38:32Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Who’s “they” because I don’t see why anyone would think Vance is the future of the party. If anything Trump’s death is going to be like when the emperor died in The Dark Crystal. They is Vance and whoever supports him. The Trump administration can’t invoke the 25th without Vance’s support. It has seemed to me that the current Repub administration has a blind spot in that they really don’t seem able to understand why anyone would disagree with them given the self evident rightness of their positions. I think that a significant faction of the current cabinet really thinks that if Trump’s health fails to the extant that he can’t continue in office, the base will rally around the chosen successor - Vance. It’s the right wing echo chamber taken to pathological extremes. The fact that they are delusional is not relevant. They have given every evidence of being that disconnected from any understanding of public opinion. If I am correct, we are headed for a major crack up when reality bites them back. I hope the country survives it, but I am growing ever more pessimistic. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/44 "2026-02-26T00:41:53Z")
Trump has better health care than you and I will ever have, a better makeup team, and probably impeccable drug connections as well. He could go tomorrow, he could last 20 more years. It’s impossible to say. The only consistent thing about him is his inconsistency. But I have a brace of fireworks bought up for the occasion, whenever it happens. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/45 "2026-02-26T00:58:17Z")
I endorse this wise post and I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/46 "2026-02-26T01:07:40Z")
Meanwhile, you’ll note that Trump has not left the White House all day today and his tweets consist solely of endorsements which he didn’t write himself and an angry rant about Robert DeNiro. He’s clearly in come-down mode. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/47 "2026-02-26T01:08:13Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I don’t want him to die in the White House. I want him to die in jail. I gave up that dream when he successfully avoided any repercussions from Jan 6 and was able to run for president again, supported by the Republican Party. He will never see the inside of a prison cell, not even one in name only. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/48 "2026-02-26T01:25:24Z")
My hope is that during one of those long circle-jerk televised Cabinet sessions, he falls asleep and just never wakes up again. I wonder how long it would take his sycophants to notice. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/49 "2026-02-26T01:36:23Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I think that’s what having a professional apply his makeup will do for him. Usually he looks like this: > > [https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1280,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1228232766-scaled.jpg](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1280,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1228232766-scaled.jpg) That mode of Trump always reminds me of Kramer using butter for tanning. [![](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/kramer_as_a_turkey_in_seinfeld.jpg) ](https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/kramer_as_a_turkey_in_seinfeld.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/50 "2026-02-26T01:36:28Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Trump has better health care than you and I will ever have . . . I’m on the side that says Trump’s health is a well-kept secret with no reason to believe he’s doing poorly for someone his age. However, I’m also thinking I have better health care than Donald Trump. This is partly due to the VIP syndrome I’ve mentioned before. What Trump instead has is more health care than I do. His is mostly military medicine. This isn’t bad on average but I doubt it is the best. He’s probably taking one (or both) of the FDA approved dementia preventives that [the head of my local memory center (AKA neurology dementia practice) says should never have been approved](https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/alz.70068). Because I am worried about what is now mild memory loss, I had a memory center appointment today where they really did give me a whole bunch of these tests that Trump talks about but I’m sure would not sit still for. At least, he would not sit still for the hard parts. I asked about [cognitive training](https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trc2.70197), but they are not convinced by the study I just linked. So the biggest thing they can do about dementia, if I get it, is social work sorts of support. Trump isn’t going to get better support than I would get, because he’s a difficult patient. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/51 "2026-02-26T01:40:11Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I think he’s probably a reasonably healthy 78 year old man > [@bump](#): > > I mean, someone who’s 78 FTR, God forbid, He will be 80 in June. 😉 > [@bump](#): > > I’ve always seen all the “Trump’s dying!”, “Trump shits his pants!” kind of lurid headlines as more along the lines of sympathetic magic by a lot of people on the Left. Trump is an adherent to _The Power Of Positive Thinking_. He demonstrates daily that he believes if he says it, then it is true. So why not engage in a bit of ‘Positive Thinking’ on the Left? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/52 "2026-02-26T01:41:49Z")
The thing that does amaze me is that he doesn’t exercise, he eats all that KFC and McDonalds and Coke and steak. He is overweight and 79. He ought to be having heart disease and colon cancer, but the only healthy habit he has is that he doesn’t drink alcohol. So either he was gifted with amazing genes, or there’s some sort of medical treatment keeping all those diseases at bay that us common peons can’t get. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/53 "2026-02-26T01:43:59Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I think that’s what having a professional apply his makeup will do for him. Here’s a current pic without obvious makeup (although there could be a light primer coat) [![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xmCv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c2b6bb9-f374-436d-91be-150caa3d045a_1256x968.jpeg) ](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xmCv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c2b6bb9-f374-436d-91be-150caa3d045a_1256x968.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/54 "2026-02-26T01:50:33Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > So either he was gifted with amazing genes As an Old Person who lives in a place with other old people, I firmly believe that this matters more than (ahem, _“trumps”_) any diet/exercise/medication regimen. * * * > [@needscoffee](#): > > Here’s a current pic without obvious makeup Holy cow. 😮 He absolutely looks his age there. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/55 "2026-02-26T01:53:51Z")
That’s actually the best looking picture of him I’ve ever seen. But then, I usually think people look better without makeup. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/56 "2026-02-26T01:56:19Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > He is overweight . . . Google [obesity paradox](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20970043/). > [@](#): > > He ought to be having heart disease and colon cancer . . . Statistically, he should not have colon cancer, unless maybe if you just mean precancerous polyps. As for heart disease of some sort, this is highly likely at his age: [American Heart Association](https://professional.heart.org/-/media/PHD-Files-2/Science-News/2/2019-Heart-and-Stroke-Stat-Update/2019_Stat_Update_Older_Americans_and_CVD_factsheet.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) Not only do most American men his age have some sort of cardiovascular disease, most American men of his age, who are in better than average health for their age, have some sort of cardiovascular disease. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/57 "2026-02-26T04:17:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, you’ll note that Trump has not left the White House all day today Tomorrow will be the second consecutive day on which Trump has no public appearances or media events scheduled - just the DIB, an unspecified private meeting, and “executive time” (Ie. watching TV). > **[Trump White House Calendar: February 2026](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/calendar/)** > > Presidential schedule and events for February 2026 ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/58 "2026-02-26T04:31:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tomorrow will be the second consecutive day on which Trump has no public appearances or media events scheduled - just the DIB, an unspecified private meeting, and “executive time” (Ie. watching TV). He’s supposedly going to be making the rounds here in Corpus Christi on Friday, including a reported stop for lunch at our most famous fast food establishment, Whataburger on the Bay. I won’t be in attendance, as I just happen to be scheduled for surgery to have a kidney stone removed at that same time. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/59 "2026-02-26T05:27:17Z")
The surgery will probably be less painful and more pleasant, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-trump-is-healthier-than-we-thought/1027953/60 "2026-02-26T14:05:10Z")
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