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Is Trump concealing a serious medical condition?

Is Trump concealing a serious medical condition?

  • Yes, probably

    Votes: 27 47.4%
  • No, I doubt it

    Votes: 17 29.8%
  • I don't know

    Votes: 13 22.8%

  • Total voters
    57

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The internet's been abuzz with as-yet-unsubstantiated rumors of another unscheduled run to the hospital for Trump yesterday. Regardless of whether that turns out to be true, it does call to mind nagging questions that have been lurking at least since Trump was rushed to Walter Reed in November for an unscheduled visit that the White House later implausibly claimed was part of a multi-visit routine physical.

Putting aside his strange behavior and increasingly obvious mood swings ("nobody likes me!"), the oddities are starting to add up. An apparent inability to walk normally unassisted at times, occasional difficulty holding objects, frequent issues with slurring his speech or other difficulties with language (e.g., "oranges" of the Mueller investigation), frequent bouts of confusion, and recently an open admission to having struggled with the "very hard" questions on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Is there something going on here?
 
The internet's been abuzz with as-yet-unsubstantiated rumors of another unscheduled run to the hospital for Trump yesterday. Regardless of whether that turns out to be true, it does call to mind nagging questions that have been lurking at least since Trump was rushed to Walter Reed in November for an unscheduled visit that the White House later implausibly claimed was part of a multi-visit routine physical.

Putting aside his strange behavior and increasingly obvious mood swings ("nobody likes me!"), the oddities are starting to add up. An apparent inability to walk normally unassisted at times, occasional difficulty holding objects, frequent issues with slurring his speech or other difficulties with language (e.g., "oranges" of the Mueller investigation), frequent bouts of confusion, and recently an open admission to having struggled with the "very hard" questions on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Is there something going on here?

He is just old like Biden. We have had a number presidents drop dead in office. Bruce Lee was a picture of health in the prime of his life and next thing we know he is dead. We have never had a president in anywhere near as good of shape.
 
The internet's been abuzz with as-yet-unsubstantiated rumors of another unscheduled run to the hospital for Trump yesterday. Regardless of whether that turns out to be true, it does call to mind nagging questions that have been lurking at least since Trump was rushed to Walter Reed in November for an unscheduled visit that the White House later implausibly claimed was part of a multi-visit routine physical.

Putting aside his strange behavior and increasingly obvious mood swings ("nobody likes me!"), the oddities are starting to add up. An apparent inability to walk normally unassisted at times, occasional difficulty holding objects, frequent issues with slurring his speech or other difficulties with language (e.g., "oranges" of the Mueller investigation), frequent bouts of confusion, and recently an open admission to having struggled with the "very hard" questions on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Is there something going on here?

Possibly, he is up there in years and things begin to go south at this point, doubt he will share it. At first I thought you were going to bring up trumps mental illness but that really isn't a secret.
 
It's quite possible. Alzheimer's, dementia, etc., there are a whole bunch of diseases that start showing up in that age range. He notoriously does not exercise because he believes the body has a finite amount of energy to spend over its lifetime, and his diet is atrocious. Could easily be a series of small strokes.
 
He is just old like Biden. We have had a number presidents drop dead in office. Bruce Lee was a picture of health in the prime of his life and next thing we know he is dead. We have never had a president in anywhere near as good of shape.

Am I actually reading this? You read an OP about Trump's unscheduled visit(s) to the hospital and a slew of potential symptoms of neurological damage, and your response is "yeah but one time this really fit martial arts guy dropped dead, so who cares"?

This is not how logic works.
 
He is just old like Biden. We have had a number presidents drop dead in office. Bruce Lee was a picture of health in the prime of his life and next thing we know he is dead. We have never had a president in anywhere near as good of shape.

What? Every President since Regan has been in better shape than trump, most jogged on a regular basis, none had a big old gut like trump, heck he barely walks even when he plays golf.
 
It's quite possible. Alzheimer's, dementia, etc., there are a whole bunch of diseases that start showing up in that age range. He notoriously does not exercise because he believes the body has a finite amount of energy to spend over its lifetime, and his diet is atrocious. Could easily be a series of small strokes.

Ok now your teasing me..:lamo
 
He is just old like Biden. We have had a number presidents drop dead in office. Bruce Lee was a picture of health in the prime of his life and next thing we know he is dead. We have never had a president in anywhere near as good of shape.

Looking fit and being healthy are not the same thing
 
He is just old like Biden. We have had a number presidents drop dead in office. Bruce Lee was a picture of health in the prime of his life and next thing we know he is dead. We have never had a president in anywhere near as good of shape.

Pretty sure Bruce Lee wasn't a president. And a total of four have died of natural causes.

Four presidents died of natural causes – William Henry Harrison (1841), Zachary Taylor (1850), Warren Harding (1923) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945).

Trump is obese and his exercise consists of climbing in and out of his golf cart. But yeah he's in better shape than the ones that jogged. :lamo
 
Am I actually reading this? You read an OP about Trump's unscheduled visit(s) to the hospital and a slew of potential symptoms of neurological damage, and your response is "yeah but one time this really fit martial arts guy dropped dead, so who cares"?

This is not how logic works.

So the doctors that examined Trump have confirmed he has neurological damage. I missed that.
 
If he wasn't President, there wouldn't be any debate as to whether he had a serious neurological condition. Yes, obviously there's something very wrong with him.
 
What? Every President since Regan has been in better shape than trump, most jogged on a regular basis, none had a big old gut like trump, heck he barely walks even when he plays golf.

He can still live to be 100+. My great aunt lived to be 107 and was taking care of herself in her own home and she never jogged. My mom and dad never ran, hiked, or jogged and they are doing just fine. I ran, hiked, and jogged all the time and my hips and knees are destroyed while my parents are still just fine.
 
So the doctors that examined Trump have confirmed he has neurological damage. I missed that.

The last doc who lied for Trump ("he might live to be 200 years old!") got a nomination to the Cabinet, got nominated for a second star after that fell through, and now just won the GOP primary in TX-13 with Trump's backing. I wonder what his current doc has been promised.
 
The internet's been abuzz with as-yet-unsubstantiated rumors of another unscheduled run to the hospital for Trump yesterday. Regardless of whether that turns out to be true, it does call to mind nagging questions that have been lurking at least since Trump was rushed to Walter Reed in November for an unscheduled visit that the White House later implausibly claimed was part of a multi-visit routine physical.

Putting aside his strange behavior and increasingly obvious mood swings ("nobody likes me!"), the oddities are starting to add up. An apparent inability to walk normally unassisted at times, occasional difficulty holding objects, frequent issues with slurring his speech or other difficulties with language (e.g., "oranges" of the Mueller investigation), frequent bouts of confusion, and recently an open admission to having struggled with the "very hard" questions on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Is there something going on here?

I doubt it...
Though he's overweight, he seems as alert as ever, and has the stamina of some people chronologically way younger than him.

Biden is the one you should be worried about.
 
I believe he is aware that something is not working right. I was reading today that he spent most of the night tweeting until 4:30 AM. He might want to start getting some sleep at night and quit eating like a person doing their best to try to die...
 
Pretty sure Bruce Lee wasn't a president. And a total of four have died of natural causes.



Trump is obese and his exercise consists of climbing in and out of his golf cart. But yeah he's in better shape than the ones that jogged. :lamo

At 74 and still alive Trump is doing just fine. Just look at the toll the office of presidency has taken on much younger men. I really wish we had a 30 year old running for president. That is what this country needs. We keep electing all these old fossils and our country will continue to decline along with our leaders.
 
We have never had a president in anywhere near as good of shape.

Oh please you really don't believe that do you? He's at least 50 pounds overweight but probably more like 80.
Just because he says he's very fit doesn't make it so, especially for a serial liar and braggart.
He has admitted to loving fast food and he's said he hates to exercise. That doesn't bode well for a long healthy lifespan.
 
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He can still live to be 100+. My great aunt lived to be 107 and was taking care of herself in her own home and she never jogged. My mom and dad never ran, hiked, or jogged and they are doing just fine. I ran, hiked, and jogged all the time and my hips and knees are destroyed while my parents are still just fine.

Was your great aunt 50 to 80 pounds overweight and into fast food? And you're comparing your 107 year old aunt the had less than a 1 percent change of reaching 107 to Trump? Seriously?

Btw I challenge you to find anyone over 90 that is seriously overweight. It just doesn't happen.
 
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Am I actually reading this? You read an OP about Trump's unscheduled visit(s) to the hospital and a slew of potential symptoms of neurological damage, and your response is "yeah but one time this really fit martial arts guy dropped dead, so who cares"?

This is not how logic works.

So the doctors that examined Trump have confirmed he has neurological damage. I missed that.

What you missed was the point, and you missed it with flying colors. See that bolded and underlined word? That was the first thing you missed. The second thing you missed is the complete irrelevance of Bruce Lee dropping dead.

:lol:
 
Other food for thought: look at all the Trumpists who have no problem asserting that Biden is in fact demented/etc desperately flailing at a thread that asks whether something might be wrong with Trump.

The ugliness is the point.
 
I doubt it...
Though he's overweight, he seems as alert as ever, and has the stamina of some people chronologically way younger than him.

Biden is the one you should be worried about.

Stamina? He needed a golf cart at a state visit while everyone else walked.
 
IMO it's plain to see. Trumps mental acuity and physical provenance have deteriorated since 2016.

Advanced age - by itself - doesn't fully account for this deterioration. It could be any number of malady.
 
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