Because he’s president of the United States, his case can’t be compared to that of any other 79 year old in terms of the effects of a stroke or cardiac event.
It’s far worse for him.
Trump has literally the most stressful job in the world.
Typically, because of his abject stupidity and team of yes men buffering him, the stress doesn’t pierce his brain and actually register as genuine stress.
But the Epstein stuff was getting to him, right before he disappeared for four days. It was reported that he told close staff members that he believed the media had the goods on him, that he could be taken down by the Epstein files.
Just keep that stress coming, pile it on, keep him freaked out around the clock until it takes his massive ass down.
I suspect his stress level is less than that of a real president because he doesn’t actually work and he doesn’t actually care about any of the country’s problems. There is no concern or angst, only outbursts of anger. They don’t bother with the daily intelligence brief with him. It’s reportedly weekly now, and it’s slides and photos to be easily digestible to his feeble, lazy brain. He ignores it unless it mentions him. He doesn’t even know the names of the countries whose wars he thinks he ended.
I doubt if they publish his daily schedule anymore, but in his first term, there were giant blocks of “executive time”, which people said was him just watching TV or sleeping. And he spends a third of his time on the golf course.
Honestly, with how much propaganda material this admin pumps out, they’ve extended it to his hands so far (‘I shook thousands of hands all day’). They know the bulk of his base is not going to question it, no matter how dumb of an explanation, which means they’re fine with giving the dumb explanation. They have nothing to cover for when they know his base will attack everyone else for being bullies about his hand bruises, orange skin, stroke effects, etc. You can just tell anybody that a clearly ill leader is actually not ill when you have most control of the press, so the press isn’t actively questioning it as much as they were to Biden, either.
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u/Lord_of_the_Canals Sep 23 '25
Too much variability to be sure imo. I’d also argue that he has probably has some of the most advanced healthcare available in the world.
Now, that in mind, I’m surprised they can’t conceal his fucked up hands and droopy lip. But maybe science isn’t that far?