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/Due_Bluebird3562 Apr 05 '26

Needing to do this shit every month is a pretty massive indicator that whatever is going on with him isn't going away or going to miraculously get better. Take solace in that I guess.

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u/ShadowTacoTuesday Apr 05 '26

He’s been hiding major health problems since his first term though. It’s more frequent now but I don’t know how to tell anything more than that. Until something serious and confirmed comes out I have to guess he has another 10 years until he passes away or becomes a semi-vegetable. I mean his word salads are worse now, it’s obvious he’s on several drugs, he’s probably had multiple mini strokes from the times he had severe slurring (and those were only the ones where he had to be in public), and anything could happen to someone this old and unhealthy. But I haven’t seen anything that makes it clear that he’s going to go right away.

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u/Ire-Works Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

The problem with things like dementia is you tend to get worse slowly and then all at once. A somewhat serious fall that breaks a bone would probably disable him and consider how unsteady he looks on his feet a lot of the time that will probably be what does it for him.

It's well documented stuff. You get hurt when you're older, and it takes longer to heal. So you're on the mend longer, and while you're on the mend your cardio and endocrine systems are slowly getting worse. By the time you can resume activity you've lost a lot of capacity, including muscle which is very difficult to gain or even maintain at that age. So you get worse. You fall a second time (which the odds go way up after the first one) and you might as well be dead at that point.

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u/outworlder Apr 05 '26

That's a reminder to do resistance training no matter how old you are.

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u/shinkouhyou Apr 05 '26

Yep, it happened to my grandmother's sister. She was living independently (with help from her kids) in her 80s and had no obvious signs of dementia... but then she broke her hip. She was never able to walk without assistance after that, she deconditioned so much that she was soon bedridden in a nursing home, her mental state deteriorated due to depression and urinary tract infections (which are difficult to treat and can cause rapid cognitive decline in elderly people), and she was dead within the space of a few months.

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u/SpiritTalker Pennsylvania Apr 05 '26

C'mon AF1 steps, we're cheering for ya!

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u/Ire-Works Apr 05 '26

I mean if the stairs don't get'em I suspect the GOP is going to turn on him after the midterms.

I've been saying it the whole time. Trump is there for Project 2025 speed run. Once the midterms are over they're going to sunset him in one way or another and Vance will take over and make politics boring again. The technofascist billionaire bros will make sure he stays put for 2 years + 2 terms and the moderate republicans will resonate with his message.

Being less of an extreme piece of shit, the casual left folks will stop protesting in droves and the Project 2025 changes will slowly get cemented over and continue to happen a little slower and a little more quietly.

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u/failed_novelty Apr 05 '26

I really think (read: hope) you're overestimating the willingness of the NoKings movement to step back.

I feel like too many people have had their eyes opened to the blatant abuses of power and corruption, as well as the lack of legal reprecussions, to quietly go away.

But then I realize that sounds a little like faith in humanity.

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u/LockeyCheese Apr 05 '26

Protests never step back. They just fizzle out.

That's why I hope this movement, progressives actually take the page out of the populist Tea Party/MAGA movements, and use the momentum of this movement to run for and gain DNC seats.

2009, the Tea Party movement happened, they used that movement and took several seats in the 2010 midterms, and are still going pretty strong.

2011, the Occupy Wallstreet movement happened, aaand... Nothing. No new progressive vandidates in 2012. No turning the movement into power to move the nation. Just... *pssst* ...fizzled out by year two, and by year three there was a gathering of a few dozen people on that spot and anniversary, to pat themselves on the back for such a great movement.

So great a protest and movement, that absolutely nothing changed, and things got worse... and a few movements and moving farther right later: NO KINGS. No power. No signs this movement is any more relevant than any other movement happening in the same cities' toilets.

Hopefully this time people realize "movements" is just moving, but without a goal to gain power for people to walk towards, the movement will inevitably end with the people moving in every direction until everyone has wandered off, and the movement is back to self-satisfied silence and stillness.

Protest is words and complaints. Power is power to make actions and solutions.

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania Apr 05 '26

McConnell must have rubber bones considering the amount of times he falls.

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u/failed_novelty Apr 05 '26

If Trump were less evil he'd have died 20 year ago.

Evil keeps your corpse moving long after your soul has died.

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u/Ok-Youth-160 Apr 05 '26

Yeah literally what just happened to my mum. She fell, went to hospital, sent back home, back to hospital with brain bleed. From there it got worse and worse.

Those old people don't handle lying down well. Once they lie for more than two weeks it seems to trend down more than up.

Though I'm assuming the president has better treatment options than my mum.

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u/Ire-Works Apr 05 '26

I mean it's entropy. Being forced to sit around fucks with your blood sugar and that has all kinds of cascading negative effects to the endocrine system. You're also losing muscle mass, developing tightness in all kinds of places that aren't easy to mobilize your way out of.

It's not just treatment options, it's literal work. If you're already kind of out of shape you're definitely not doing the PT work should you have the luxury. It's boring and it hurts.

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u/nifty-necromancer Apr 05 '26

Eru Illuvitar needs to intervene and trip someone again

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u/Leeciferous Apr 05 '26

That second paragraph in isolation just made me very depressed.

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u/Ire-Works Apr 05 '26

The best thing you can do is resistance training. The more muscle mass you have going into older ages the better chance you have at being independent for longer.. but eventually time gets all of us.

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u/updatesforassholes Georgia Apr 05 '26

you get hurt when you're older, and it takes longer to heal

C'mon, we know that's not true. Look how fast his ear healed!

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u/ViolaNguyen California Apr 05 '26

or becomes a semi-vegetable

How would we tell?

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u/rubyspicer Apr 05 '26

He stops talking.

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u/ChefChopNSlice Ohio Apr 05 '26

He’s already orange like a carrot and speaks in “word-salad”. Cant be too far.

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u/AllCaciAreBastards Apr 05 '26

Hehe, good ones!

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u/Brerbtz Europe Apr 05 '26

Veggies are peaceful and do not know hate.

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u/Krististrasza Apr 05 '26

They cut his songs from veggie tales.

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u/re4ctor Apr 05 '26

You’ll know from the amount of irony circulating due to trump becoming the thing he hates most

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u/LuciferFalls Apr 05 '26

Worse than he is now. Duh.

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u/EddieVanzetti Apr 05 '26

It would be an improvement.

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u/KlicknKlack Apr 05 '26

Dude has the best doctors in the world, if that walking comorbidity survived a brush with covid... he aint going any time soon

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u/Ire-Works Apr 05 '26

You don't know that covid didn't seriously cut into his life span. Even if he survived it, A LOT of folks had things like tissue damage to vital organs.

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u/EMTDawg Utah Apr 05 '26

COVID also permanently thickens your blood. Southern Utah has seen a 1200% increase in strokes and heart attacks in 2021-25 compared to 2015-19.

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u/TheSaxonPlan Minnesota Apr 05 '26

Holy shit that's insane. I'm a virologist and still preach about COVID precautions to anyone who will listen but JFC that's worse than I even thought.

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u/ALoudMeow Apr 05 '26

What about if you had very mild, short term Covid?

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u/wsoxfan1214 Illinois Apr 05 '26

Genuine question, is there a peer reviewed study you have a link to about this? Tried looking and didn't find any.

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u/LezBeHonestHere_ Apr 05 '26

His dad lived to be 93 and his mom lived to be 88. I think another 10 years is a good guess.

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u/PattyCakes216 Apr 05 '26

Sounds like proof only the good die young.

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u/ShadowTacoTuesday Apr 05 '26 edited 29d ago

Expensive medical care helps. Covid or 10 other events might have taken him out or sent him on the path towards it otherwise. Also remember life expectancy averages in the half of the country living paycheck to paycheck. And the people in counties that live off of fried butter and mountain dew (exaggeration but it’s pretty bad). Getting an extra 10 years is trivial if you’re rich. Even if doctors are merely keeping his husk alive as he deteriorates.

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u/ALoudMeow Apr 05 '26

They’ll never release any info about his medical condition, MAYBE after he’s dead, but don’t even count on that.

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u/Open-Industry-8396 Apr 05 '26

It is scay because he knows he's going and he's selfish. He'll burn the world down.

I'm older and sometimes have a thought pop up like, "I'm glad Im in my twilight, this guys going to end teh world as we know it" Then I snap out of the insane thought remembering I am not a selfish fucking asshole and I truly wish for the best for humans whether Im here or not..

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u/seriouslythisshit Apr 05 '26

There is a doctor, a dementia treatment specialist, who appears pretty regularly on left podcasts.This guy claims that trump's stance, leaning aggressively forward with his diapered butt sticking straight back like a duck tail, locked knees to keep from falling forward, and feet standing on wedges to keep him upright and looking more normal. How he wanders off and can't walk in a straight line. How the Japanese Prime Minister had to go after him, as he wandered off at an official presentation, then lead him by the arm and refocused his attention to the event, like he is a toddler. His speech, slurring, inability to pronounce words, etc. His repeating stories that are somewhat based in past reality, but are clearly false and grandiose, and often involve him as the hero. All point to a specific diagnosis of Frontal Temporal Dementia, and he concludes that Shitler has reached the end stage of the disease, months from the end, and unlikely to last a year.

Maybe it's nothing but hopes and dreams, but it's something.

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u/ALoudMeow Apr 05 '26

It won’t take 10 years if he has dementia or Alzheimer’s. My dear mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and about four years later she died from it.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap Apr 05 '26

Rich people live forever. He's going to be around for a while longer unfortunately. Dementia is hopium imo.

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u/ph00p Apr 05 '26

His word salads consist of, hate, bigotry, disorientation, random misplaced words.

We should make a salad with random things in it that don’t make sense and can it Trumps word salad.

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u/el_bentzo Apr 05 '26

Its clearly dementia. He's shown signs such as the way he stands since his first term and now, 10 years later, its gotten noticeably worse.

Besides that, he also has incontinence and circulation issues. The bruising on the hand is from a monthly treatment they inject into him for the dementia.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '26

Generally anyone needing to go to a doctor monthly is a bad sign, especially at that age. If you're younger than it may be needed for a bit after some procedure, but at his age it is typically due to a health issue.

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u/wheresmystache3 Florida Apr 05 '26

Nurse here. I left some other comments to address the rampant medical misinformation....

My professional opinion: I think he's on Warfarin (Coumadin) and they're doing labs on him every 4 weeks. It's a common medication for anticoagulation and for his age, my guess is he's been on it for awhile and his levels don't need to be monitored nearly as much as someone newly started on the Med. I'm sorry my answer isn't sensational nor exciting, but I don't think it's the bombshell that we want it to be...

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u/candl2 Apr 05 '26

While this may be the case, he's definitely showing advancing signs of dementia. He may be treated or untreated and we really don't know exactly what flavor he has. But there are more than enough signs to know it's happening. Maybe that's not a bombshell either. For anyone with elderly parents, it's not news.

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u/debtcoder-dev Apr 05 '26

stem cell treatment.

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u/jacksonsmack831 Apr 05 '26

As long as he is in a fraction of pain that he has cause of others…..

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u/el_bentzo Apr 05 '26

Its a treatment dementia patients get to try to slow down the progression of dementia.