General Discussion

When Woodrow Wilson had a stroke, his illness was concealed from the public for months while his wife Edith was effectively the acting president. FDR had polio but he avoided being seen in public in a wheelchair. JFK had Addison's disease and chronic back pain, conditions that his staff actively concealed from the public and weren't known until after his death. So hiding a president's health problems is nothing new, but Trump's age, mental instability and other apparent health issues are being denied so strenuously, and in fact are being obviously lied about, that it's become ludicrous. The other presidents (plus Edith Wilson) were able to carry on with their duties despite their health problems, but Trump is losing his shit, mentally and physically, and we deserve to know what's going on.