The only type of stroke Trump could have would be a mini stroke. (didn’t intend the entendre, but that works too. Originally thinking that a tiny brain can’t have a massive stroke)
If this is Michael Schmidt’s new book, then I’d say it’s well sourced. He is a long-time, well respected crack journalist who has repeatedly garnered praise for his work. He’s not about to jeopardize a reputation it took years to build by changing his approach now. He will certainly be aware that his assertions will be taken apart – if they can be. Somehow, I doubt it.
If by ‘mini-stroke’ they mean a TIA (transient ischemic attack) then I believe it. Slurred and garbled speech, trouble lifting drinks to the mouth and walking down ramps.
My father had a TIA and it was rather frightening. He just started talking gibberish, and he knew it. But he had no power to correct himself and make the words come out right.
Excellently put.
Yeah, my mother had one of those, with the same symptoms. Scary indeed.
The problem is that Trump speaks gibberish even when he isn’t having a TIA.
Seriously. I mean, how are you supposed to tell?
To paraphrase something that was once said of my state’s lieutenant governor, the VP’s daily job routine is as thus;
- Wake up.
- Read the newspaper to see if the president is dead or not.
- Go back to bed.
He starts making sense?
Am I the only one who thinks that this is basically the Trump administration using 250 million in tax dollars on campaign ads?
“As the presidential election fast approaches, the Department of Health and Human Services is bidding out a more than $250 million contract to a communications firm as it seeks to “defeat despair and inspire hope” about the coronavirus pandemic, according to an internal HHS document obtained by POLITICO.”
I called that here in one of the numerous DumpsterFire threads. The test that he “aced” was the one that determines if an individual needs to be committed to care.
And protect the Space-Time Continuum. Read the Constitution!
We already know that Agent Orange takes an aspirin a day. That’s what my dad was prescribed when he had a small stroke in his 70s (and he’d already had a heart attack and bypass surgery in his early 50s).
I seem to recall that it’s less common now to prescribe aspirin as a catch-all preventative for heart attacks and strokes than it used to be due to its potential for adverse reactions. These days it seems much more likely to be prescribed when you’ve already had an ‘event’ or are considered at unusually high risk of having one.
And I can absolutely believe he’s had at least one TIA, though I certainly have no proof.
Slightly on-topic for the latest tangent (but definitely off-topic for the thread): I had a scare last year, when it was uncertain for a time whether I had had a stroke or not. I was prescribed a medicine I’d never taken before. About 2 months later, in the middle of the day and several hours after I’d taken that day’s dosage, I started slurring my speech. And fighting not to drool. I seemed to be fine mentally (self-assessment), but it was a struggle to talk clearly, and I was unable to do more than reduce the slurring. Off to ER, where it was quickly determined that my tongue had swollen (it took more time to determine that it was very likely the new medicine, which is now added to my Life Alert bracelet). Kept me in hospital for a few days and gave me steroid IVs, for fear the swelling would extend to my throat. If that happened, intubation, which was iffy because of my small throat. Fun fact: this was the first time in my life (due to the steroids) that I had had hallucinations. Luckily, I figured out what they were right away, and they were minor anyway, but it was grimly fascinating.
Morning after I was admitted, and before the likely cause was placed as being the medicine (and other tests later helped eliminate certain possibilities), there was talk that the cause might have been a stroke of some kind. I was 59 at the time. That talk hit me really hard. But, for me, no, and things turned out okay.
Now, with Trump being predisposed to lie, and his further predisposition to never appear to look weak, then yeah, I can believe it might have happened. Did it actually? Wishful thinking on my part, and I need to be a better me than that. Several years of living in interesting times, however…
Dear God, what a frightening experience. 
I can definitely believe that trump is hallucinating. Constantly.
Maybe that explains all those crying firemen and construction workers who are always walking up to him unsolicited and calling him “sir”.
Individual 1 says Kyle Rittenhouse was just defending himself.
He also refused to meet with Jacob Blake’s family, and claims he spoke to their pastor. The family said they don’t have a pastor.
So, “many people are saying…” are just the voices in his head talking to him?
Frighteningly, that makes so much sense.
Here’s a video of Jacob Blake’s father stating that he doesn’t have a family pastor and he has no idea who Trump allegedly talked to.