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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Trump really close to dying?
Keith Olbermann speculates in his latest podcast that he may well be.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-suddenly-speculating-about-a-future-without/id1633301179?i=1000730345454
Two big revelations:
I don't want to get hopes up, but it actually sounds like it might really be serious. Add in some of the comments he apparently made before the Navy and it sounds like his most unhinged speech yet. I tried listening to some of the snippets from that speech from Meidas Touch, but it was too painful. But Olbermann's characterization of it make it sound like it was deranged (You really need to hear it on the podcast):
What. In The Hell. Is Wrong. With Trumps Health?

Captain Zero
(8,471 posts)who knows?
onenote
(45,703 posts)Here's the quote in which he refers, in his typically confusing style, to getting 250, the World Cup and the Olympics by having won in 2024:
From the American Revolution until today, the story of the U.S. Navy is the tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and commitment stretching back 250 years. So, were celebrating 250. I almost thought I wouldnt get to do that because I was President in 2016, and then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught him, didnt we? We caught him. But, you know, we had to run it again. I ran it again, and I got 250, and I got the World Cup, and I got the Olympics. Can you believe all of it?
JI7
(92,733 posts)where they told him he has x amount of time left.
But it's more of his age and health being something where it wouldn't be a unusual for him to die any moment.
emulatorloo
(46,131 posts)Having a treatment one day, vanishing for several days to deal with the worst of chemo side effects until theyve had a chance to subside. Might explain the bruises on his hands.
I have no idea what is going on but I do believe he is ill and the White House is hiding it.
Bayard
(27,278 posts)Mtnmama
(109 posts)Anyone else feel that way? As awful as trump is, I don't see how.
W_HAMILTON
(9,588 posts)Zero chance that the low information voters that turned out for Trump will turn out for Vance.
Mtnmama
(109 posts)niyad
(127,717 posts)orange creature is the bright shiny thing keeping people distracted. The irang creature is too lazy and too f'n stupid to actually work.
Morbius
(698 posts)He absolutely won't be any better.
Wiz Imp
(7,628 posts)Walleye
(42,708 posts)MiKenMi33
(230 posts)But Vance doesnt have any adoring fans or the cult following that the orange one has.
LR3
(58 posts)The U.S. will transition from its current fascism built around the leader to a more vanilla authoritarianism. Sure, Vance won't have the cult following, but he'll be ruthless with the levers of power.
Xi doesn't need to be loved to be an effective authoritarian, he just needs to control everything, and it will be the same with Vance. He's got the media (Musk, Ellison, Murdock), the money (Musk, Andreessen, techbros), and the surveillance state (Thiel).
I'm not sure the orange asshole dying changes the outcome.
Blues Heron
(7,697 posts)dalton99a
(90,545 posts)UTUSN
(75,932 posts)chouchou
(2,420 posts)BaronChocula
(3,477 posts)Just sayin'. We need to account for that. But whatever may be going on, may it be extremely painful for long periods of time.
NJCher
(41,636 posts)The golf footage has been as contrived as his speaking segments. We should take a look at it and see if it is edited , too.
BaronChocula
(3,477 posts)-Dems blasting him for golfing during the shutdown
-Golf friends dishing about his complaints of how unfair everything and not letting go of the UN fiasco
But good point. If these guys were actually smart I'd dismiss all that as a ruse to make it look like he's keeping somewhat active.
Wiz Imp
(7,628 posts)He doesn't walk at all. He pulls the golf cart right up next to the ball, slides out of the cart, hits the ball, then slides back in. He even pulls the golf cart onto the green (which would get him kicked out of any golf course but his own). I mean, when playing golf, he spends very little time on his feet, and even less time actually moving. His playing golf doesn't really prove anything as far as his health is concerned.
BaronChocula
(3,477 posts)that he was being kept out of the public eye, I don't think he'd be playing golf. Even trump-style golf. I definitely don't think he'd be playing with those blabbermouth friends who then report back on what he bitched about all day. Again, it could be a setup and they're all in - "Leak to the press some crap that you'd expect me to say, but whatever you do, don't tell anyone the right side of my face is drooping, I'm drooling, my incontinence is loud and constant, I've got scabs on my neck or anything else obvious that I'm trying to hide from the public."
I definitely don't think he's healthy or fit. I would just love him to be even more unhealthy and more unfit so he ain't playing golf. Just my opinion.
NJCher
(41,636 posts)Cankles got cantkles.
littlemissmartypants
(29,918 posts)LudwigPastorius
(13,530 posts)In fact (to paraphrase Hunter Thompson), I wont believe it when he is finally dies until I can gnaw on his skull with my very own teeth.
NJCher
(41,636 posts)Refrain from posting that on the nightly dinner thread.
Wiz Imp
(7,628 posts)I don't know exactly what's going on, but I believe he is in far worse physical condition than he is letting on.
niyad
(127,717 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,255 posts)The man is a cockroach.
Emile
(38,051 posts)
bucolic_frolic
(52,637 posts)draw your own conclusions
GoCubsGo
(34,422 posts)We're onto what? The the third round of this shit?
Jersey Devil
(10,501 posts)Keith tends to get a bit carried away at times.
Emile
(38,051 posts)themaguffin
(4,718 posts)many of us have seen elderly member of our families decline. We just have no idea with trump.
Autumn
(48,425 posts)People die while evil people get world class healthcare that keeps them alive.
Traildogbob
(11,946 posts)I want his death to be long, drawn out, debilitating painful, humiliating, for him and for his cabinet that wipe his fat ass, clean his golden bed pan and push cheese berders into his feeding tubes and he has to do it all in Mardi Lardo, NOT OUR HOUSE.
With masses of poor ass illiterate MAGAs fighting to get in for a kiss and hug. And bang cow bells 24/7 to the sound of YMYA blaring from big ass trucks bellowing black smoke to keep batteries working for the stereo. The people he would never allow near him because they are poor.
And it all starts like this week.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,219 posts)
PCIntern
(27,665 posts)Enquiring minds want to know!!
Rebl2
(17,058 posts)he has kidney disease of some kind.
Wiz Imp
(7,628 posts)Trumps Texts to CNN Host Renew Health Speculation
The 79-year-old president gave an exclusive interview to State of the Union host Jake Tapper Sunday, but bizar
rely texted his answers in at an unspecified time before the show rather than speaking in person or calling.
In his interview, graphics of Trumps texts were shown on screen.
On X, however, CNN viewers speculated that Trump turned to his keyboard to avoid being seenif it was even him sending the texts at all.
Link to tweet
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NCDem47
(3,105 posts)TEXTS(?!?!) as an interview? Just no real journalistic standards.