You know, this is bugging me. The press saying he’s had 3 checkups in 13 months is stupid. He has 2 checkups a year. He’s just keeping to the 2/year schedule, which doesn’t seem unusual for someone his age who’s a US president. So for example May 1, November 1, May 1, November 1.
It seems the mainstream press could easily report something more obviously specifically wrong with him than having another regular checkup.
The media could report on and discuss the findings from Trump’s latest “checkup”, except the medical summary hasn’t been released.
After all, how long does it take to announce Trump’s continuing “exceptional” health status, and that taking frequent catnaps in public is an ingenious mechanism to preserve his otherworldly vitality?
Hard to believe that his fawning personal doc(s) are actually going to report something negative, however sugar-coated.
I’m guessing one more precedent about the president that will no longer be honored while Donnie is still in office.
The fact that they are so secretive means there must be something really bad going on.
Or really good.
Bad for him, good for the world, yeah.
Not necessarily- if his physical, and worse, mental deterioration is covered up while his agenda is propped up by people like Stephen Miller.
Who would believe anything they release? I sure wouldn’t.
I think the only way to properly cover that up is for him to withdraw from public appearances, and pretty much go into hiding. I can’t see how that would be bad.
I mean, they could shoot him with stuff that temporarily perks him up and makes him functional, but I suspect they’ve already been doing that for a while now.
From a pure mental health for the rest of us perspective, not having to see or hear from him so much would be fine. But keeping his deterioration a secret while maintaining the trumpian MAGA agenda for as long as possible would be bad.
One Doper, can’t remember who, even speculated that they could do AI broadcasts of trump once the real trump gets too decrepit to wheel out in front of a camera anymore. Sure, that’s a bit far-fetched, and they probably couldn’t get away with that for long, but look how much else trump and the trump admin has been able to get away with that would have seemed unthinkable, not that long ago.
I disagree because “as long as possible” would be extremely short. Then we’ll have President Vance, which would suck but would still be marginally better.
When he starts using emdashes in his tweets, we’ll know.
MAGAFleet Command already has a life support system ready for Trump, to be rolled out at press conferences with pre-recorded jibes like “Fake News!” and “Shut up, piggy” plus monologues about the Big Beautiful Ballroom.
The latest medical report on Trump has been released.
So - he demonstrates a heartbeat, is breathing, retains (unspecified) neurologic capacity and can still walk to and from his limo.
Aced it!
Looks like it’s time to replace Sean Barbabella with a more sycophantic physician.
Now that I mention it, his multi-paragraph tweets lately have a LOT of emdashes in them. I think there’s a pretty good chance that whoever handles his tweets these days is just taking his senile ramblings and asking ChatGPT to “make this sound like a Donald Trump tweet from 2017”.
Okay, that made me laugh right out loud. The placement of the word excellent says it all. It’s modifying the general word health, but not any of the functions that support the idea of excellent health. I guess the word excellent had to appear somewhere in there or Donnie would have had a major tantrum. But yeah, that doc is on his way out.
Also, his general grammar and spelling, which was never very good, has much improved, while the tone and content of his posts is more unhinged than ever. So yeah, I would bet money that trump or some aide is taking his first draft and running it through ChatGPT.
His posts are still big solid blocks of text though- one thing not even ChatGPT can do, apparently, is break his rambling incoherent diatribes into sensible paragraphs.
Or even that an aide is typing what he’s dictating so it still reads like something he’d write, but some of the grammatical/spelling errors are cleaned up. Actually, come to think of it, using speech to text would probably work just as well.
There’s a more detailed medical report out on Trump from the estimable Dr. Barbabella, with some, uh, imaginative findings - like Trump being 6’3" (he may have been at one time, but that’s long past) and 238 pounds, which conveniently is one pound less than would put him in the obese range.
He had another coronary CT angiography (he just had one in December) which of course was just fine, and a weird “AI-enhanced” electrocardiogram which purportedly shows that he has the heart of a 65-year-old man (huh?).
From Dr. Vin Gupta, medical analyst for MSNOW, commenting on Twitter:
Oh, and Trump had yet another cognitive exam, which (you guessed it!) gave him a perfect score.