# Trump is dying **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520 "2025-08-27T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 148
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2942 "2026-06-08T21:43:08Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Mr. Trump appears like the hunchback Quasimodo\* (the original Victor Hugo version, not the Lloyd Webber version) except it appears his head weight is the only thing steering him forward. I suspect that is a deliberate intimidation tactic. He likes to “loom” over people; he’s not nearly as tall as he pretends to be, but he’s still relatively tall, especially compared to women. He really loves the idea of being a “tough guy”; he pretends that all the time. This seems like me to be part of it. I’m sure it’s not good for his back/neck/joints to do that for long though. I also don’t see his slight struggle to stand and leave significant in any way. It confirms that he’s 80 years old and a mortal human. Sure, it shows how much of a lie the “vital, youthful” propaganda about him is, but we see that all the time as he struggles with stairs or just getting around in general. It’s about as significant as catching a North Korean leader taking a shit. I think people were extra sensitive to seeing anything after the false story about him “vanishing” for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2943 "2026-06-08T21:51:02Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I suspect that is a deliberate intimidation tactic. He likes to “loom” over people; he’s not nearly as tall as he pretends to be, but he’s still relatively tall, especially compared to women. He really loves the idea of being a “tough guy”; You’ve seen the video? How is being bent over as you shuffle off camera supposed to be intimidating to Welker (who is behind him)? I think you’re reaching, here. Nothing about his movements in those seconds reads like “intimidation” or “tough guy.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2944 "2026-06-08T21:51:54Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > How is being bent over as you shuffle off camera supposed to be intimidating to Welker (who is behind him)? I meant about the way he was sitting before he got up. His leaving was 100% “old man struggling”. His hunching over while sitting may have contributed to being in pain later. He strikes me as the kind of guy to literally injure himself in order to put on a tough guy act. That’s my mistake for not being clear before. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2945 "2026-06-08T21:52:58Z")
Oh, I see. Yeah, when he’s in a chair he does often lean over (no matter who’s opposite him). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2946 "2026-06-08T23:33:04Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Kristen Welker will be looking for work before long. She deserves some kind of whatever award newspeople get for making baby cry and run-a-way! ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2947 "2026-06-08T23:52:46Z")
Peebody? ---
**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:** [June 9, 2026, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2948 "2026-06-09T02:31:46Z")
Looks like the NBA finals weren’t exciting enough for Trump to stay awake for. > **[MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mnt3ytljus2j)** > > Trump takes a long blink during the NBA Finals ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2949 "2026-06-09T02:45:52Z")
God, give him a cell phone and his pants around his ankles and he might just be tweeting out his nightly psycho-drivel. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2950 "2026-06-09T03:50:48Z")
Just popping in to remind everyone that in a week, Mr. Potato Head will enter his NINTH decade. I wonder how that makes him feel? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2951 "2026-06-09T04:00:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I wonder how that makes him feel? “That’s a stupid question. You are a nasty, low IQ person, and the failing SDMB should fire you.” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2952 "2026-06-09T04:37:52Z")
I didn’t care who won the game, but I was really cheering on a blood clot tonight. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2953 "2026-06-09T06:40:01Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > (See comments on Texas Governor Greg Abbott: his actions and political views are roundly condemned, but no decent person says ‘he’s not fit to serve due to not being able to walk.’ I had no idea Greg Abbott uses a wheel chair. That’s obviously not politically relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2954 "2026-06-09T11:34:10Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I had no idea Greg Abbott uses a wheel chair. That’s obviously not politically relevant. I didn’t know for quite a while either. i think I saw him in it on TV a few years back and it caught me off guard. Personally, I think that says quite a bit for the left. If he was a Democrat, I feel confident saying that between the RW media and the RW politicians it would have been something he’d be mocked about. Maybe not a lot, but I could certainly imagine the RW saying things like “How can people vote for him? How can people think someone in a wheelchair can lead the country?” or some other BS like that. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2955 "2026-06-09T11:47:14Z")
As a perfect example, I just ran across this picture on my local news’ front page: [![](https://static-media.fox.com/fmcv3/prod/fts/tlvg9m66hiivin5n/zrnorch8xzlonvvb.jpg) ](https://static-media.fox.com/fmcv3/prod/fts/tlvg9m66hiivin5n/zrnorch8xzlonvvb.jpg) I do not, for a second, believe that if it was a democrat governor sitting at that desk, that Trump wouldn’t have made fun of him. Abbot probably ran more miles on the day he was injured than Trump did in all of his twenties. Frankly, I’m sure he ran more that day than I (or most of us that aren’t runners) did in all my twenties. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2956 "2026-06-09T11:59:53Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I had no idea Greg Abbott uses a wheel chair. That’s obviously not politically relevant. Background FYI (Gemini summary): > Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been paralyzed from the waist down since July 1984. The accident happened when he was 26 years old and jogging in Houston. A massive 75-foot oak tree snapped and fell on his back, crushing his vertebrae, splintering his spinal cord, and fracturing several ribs. [[1](https://www.gregabbott.com/why-governor-greg-abbott-wheelchair/), [2](https://www.facebook.com/WSMVTV/posts/abbott-was-paralyzed-in-1984-after-a-tree-fell-on-him-while-he-was-running-the-a/1106887578134385/), [3](https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/04/candidate-faces-questions-turnabout-and-fair-play/)] > > Following extensive surgeries and months of rehabilitation, two steel rods were inserted into his spine, and he has relied on a wheelchair ever since. Very gutsy! If only he were using his powers for good instead of evil. BTW: > Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s wife, Cecilia Abbott, is Hispanic. She made history in 2015 as the first Hispanic First Lady of Texas. Raised in San Antonio, she is the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2957 "2026-06-09T13:09:14Z")
Evidently Mrs Abbott is “one of the good ones”. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2958 "2026-06-09T14:51:56Z")
Another friendly reminder that Ted Cruz was born in Canada. And his father was a Cuban. Basically all the things they accused Obama of, but worse. And actually true. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2959 "2026-06-09T15:36:40Z")
(Looking at the photo) Texas cattlemen, of course, are waging this War on Screwworm all by themselves, not depending one little bit on the e-e-e-vil federal government for any aid – that would be socialism. The USDA sign on the podium is for throwing tomatoes at. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2960 "2026-06-09T17:19:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Evidently Mrs Abbott is “one of the good ones”. And by “good one” that probably means “she favors her Irish dad”. [![](https://www.conferencesforwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cecilia-abbott-sq.jpg) ](https://www.conferencesforwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cecilia-abbott-sq.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520/2961 "2026-06-09T20:43:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > You’ve seen the video? How is being bent over as you shuffle off camera supposed to be intimidating to Welker (who is behind him)? If you look closely, there seems to be a lighting fixture just out of frame above Welker’s seat that he (and she) have to duck under. I think that accounts for some of the crouching as he stands up. (I HATE having to appear to make excuses for him!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=147) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-dying/1022520.md?page=149)