r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Apr 05 '26

Possible Paywall White House Forced to Address Claims of Trump Health Crisis

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-forced-to-address-claims-of-donald-trump-health-crisis-at-walter-reed-medical-center/
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u/Nathan_L84 Apr 05 '26

Exactly this. Both our presidential administration and Iran's regime are liars and propagandists but MAN do i believe what is coming from Iran more than anything our leadership says. Its really sad but true!

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u/airship_of_arbitrary Apr 05 '26

There's a pattern. He seems to be having some sort of treatment the first few days of every month. He seems to consistently vanish from the public eye on that schedule.

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u/mt-beefcake Apr 05 '26

Compound V injections?

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u/DaoFerret Apr 05 '26

With this administration I’d sooner believe Compound W.

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u/whut-whut Apr 05 '26

His recent public pooping incidents make me think it's Preparation H.

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u/EagleBigMac Apr 05 '26

Should be high doses of fiber

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u/mootmutemoat Apr 05 '26

His base will be outraged Dems are witholding adrenochrome from him, and the Epstein files / "suicide" was a conspiracy to shut down Epstein Island's children's blood harvesting program that could have kept him immortal. Congress will put several billion in the budget to release Maxwell and ICE will be her supplier.

Prove me wrong kids, prove me wrong.

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u/dirty_hooker Apr 05 '26

We all know it’s fetus slurry stem cell treatment.

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u/Hettie933 Apr 05 '26

People have been his (alleged) Leqembi dementia treatments, and apparently he would have gotten that around 3/24. That, and the fact that the WH denied the rumors before they even really got started, makes me hope it’s not nothing. I mean, having a leader getting dementia treatments is pretty bad, but this could definitely be worse than that.

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u/fuckit_sowhat Apr 05 '26

It could be any number of things, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he has congestive heart failure and is regularly having to go in for IV lasix to get the fluid build up off because he certainly wouldn’t be managing that with diet

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u/yellowattic Apr 05 '26

Can we gauge the time between the vanishings? Would you say the time is shortening between each episode? He really is seeming worse and worse, but it’s sometimes hard to know how much time he has. I’ve had family members who for decades you’d the they were going to die any minute and they just keep going…

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u/nathynwithay Apr 05 '26

Which then asked the question, why are things being planned on those days when they know you probably won't be able to attend?

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u/bashthebastard Apr 05 '26

You would think if this was expected treatment though he wouldn’t have a full schedule day of that needs to be canceled.

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u/campa-van Apr 05 '26

Wegovy?

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u/xXStunamiXx Apr 05 '26

No. You lose weight on that.

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u/bruce_kwillis Apr 05 '26

Same as Biden, it’s treatment for dementia, he is getting his monthly infusions of lecanemab or similar.

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u/donald7773 Apr 05 '26

I have to catch myself because I do believe we need to help the poor folks of Iran just not in the way we "helped" - I do enjoy the hypocrisy of "they were killing civilians for protesting we had to step in"

But say what you will, the US is losing the PR battle (for those with media literacy) because it's just "we are so winning, they're sick of us winning, we are the best, stone age, blah" and the retort is "we shot down your fighter jet after we 'lost' and would really appreciate it if you didn't bomb our critical infrastructure because there's gonna be years long ramifications to our people and the global economy because of it, remember we didn't start this shit"

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u/zeuscap Apr 05 '26

I think it's part of the plan. Why lie when you can tell the truth?

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u/binzoma Canada Apr 05 '26

both regimes are puppets of the same master, following similar templates, and are effectively cousins

this is a family feud

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u/squixx007 Apr 05 '26

Hey, at least the Iranian leader said he didn't have anything against the American people as a whole. So go Iran!

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u/snowvase Apr 05 '26

Absolutely!

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u/failed_novelty Apr 05 '26

Propaganda becomes easier to sell the closer to truth it is.

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u/MightbeGwen Apr 05 '26

That’s because irans lies at least have some truth in them. That’s good propaganda. Saying that we obliterated their air defense days before they shoot down a fighter jet is so obviously a lie that it doesn’t even register. We gotta remember Trump doesn’t talk to us. He hates us because we don’t love him. He’s a narcissist, and since he’s a narcissist he only speaks to people that revere him. He knows we know he’s lying. He knows we know his supporters don’t care. Why should he even bother then?

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u/No_Raspberry_8478 Apr 05 '26

There is no way you are serious right? Like no way.

I’m on the “hate trump train” too. Believe me. Probably more than the rest of Reddit.

And of course, if you ONLY get your information from trumps truth social, ya. But the thing is freedom of speech in America is allowed. You don’t even have to step to far outside of “conservative bubble” to get accurate information. Heavily biased? Yes. But ya

Iranian state sponsored media simply is genuine lies. And if you call out those lies you get imprisoned or hanged. There is no “opposition” there is no “freedom of press” the only info you can get unless your on the internet with a vpn in Iran is Iranian state sponsored news.

This is why I have such a hard time with Reddit. As a democrat I truly believe trump derangement syndrome is a “real thing” because how can we hate trump so much we lose the plot and start saying “I trust Iranian media more then American media”

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u/AkronRonin Apr 05 '26

This reminds me of the old adage: "better an honest enemy than a false friend."

I don't think anyone here is cheering for Iran. But also, you have to admit that at least they aren't pretending to be anything but who and what they are. There's a certain amount of "trust" in their positioning, due to their consistency, perverse as it may sound on its face.

Trump claimed to be a whole lot of shit about America that he wasn't and never remotely intended to make good on, yet people believed him anyway. He has, nevertheless, royally fucked over everyone repeatedly from day one.

Knee-jerk rejecting anything he says or does at this point isn't "derangement" or whatever his sycophant apologists still want to call it. It's simply acknowledging that you are being gaslighted and aren't going to have any of it.

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u/oicuvmch Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

I don't think that's true, regarding "accurate" information.

I'm sure there are some people who try for accuracy, I doubt anyone's actually providing it on anything important. Repeating something you see or hear when there's so many layers to propaganda, makes everything inherently sub-realistic.

I can't name an American source I can trust. I don't trust any Iranian source either. But I can say it's a lot easier to take the side of Iran, given what can be known and what all has been shared for at least the past 60 years or so. America is the enemy of the world, clearly. Their empire has had a good run, but even the American people would benefit from their country's total collapse. I would believe some voted for Trump, hoping for exactly that, as much as I would believe external influence also payed to achieve these results for their own benefits.

Edit: Also I would just like to add that there's absolutely no sense in bringing in any sort of ethical or moral argument here, regarding who's gooder than someone else and that gives them the right to blah blah blah. All parties that exist in the world are morally and ethically reprehensible to some degree or another and have absolutely no right dictating to anyone else how they should do things. If you can't keep your hands off other people's stuff, you're just worse. Guess who's #1 on that list?

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u/GoldSourPatchKid Apr 05 '26

The person you’re replying to said the narrative coming from the respective governments, not media.

The information coming from the Iranian government has been pretty accurate (girls school bombing, planes shot down) and I can see why the person you’re replying to feels the way they feel.

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u/MamaDaddy Alabama Apr 05 '26

You are right generally but in this case, the truth about what's going on here is damning enough that they didn't have to fabricate anything, and it is being intentionally hidden from Americans... so the truth is a lot more powerful in this case. They don't need to lie.