What’s really wrong with Donald Trump’s health
It’s a testament to just how inherently dishonest Donald Trump is. He’s displaying multiple signs of worsening physical and cognitive health issues, and the national debate is centered around whether he’s hiding a major health diagnosis, or he’s faking a major health problem. Either way, everyone knows he’s not being forthright about it.
Would Donald Trump really fake a health problem? Plenty of corrupt politicians do precisely that when it’s all closing in on them and they need to duck out of public view before they either lose reelection or get indicted. Plenty of mob bosses use the same tactic once they get busted. But while Trump is a consistent liar, he’s a terrible actor. What we’ve seen on display yesterday, and in other recent public appearances, is probably too convincing for him to be faking it. So let’s presume that the health symptoms he’s displaying are real.
There’s a tendency to want to explain away each symptom on its own. For instance, perhaps he can’t drink from a glass with his right arm because he simply injured his arm in a fall, and he’s too stubborn to stop using it. Or perhaps he only struggled to walk down that ramp because he has lifts in his shoes. People like to gravitate toward the shoe lift theory, because he’s narcissistic enough to wear lifts even if they’re making him walk like an idiot. And we all kind of like the idea of being able to make fun of him for doing this to himself, because he deserves as much scorn as we can heap on him.
But these individual explanations for Trump’s individual symptoms tend to ignore the big picture. An arm injury would explain why he can’t drink right, but wouldn’t explain why he can’t walk. Shoe lifts would explain why he can’t walk, but wouldn’t explain his arm. Neither theory would explain why his cognitive abilities have been going sharply downhill in the same timeframe, or why he comes off as so overwhelmingly lethargic and lifeless.
To figure out what’s really wrong with Donald Trump’s health, we have to look at the big picture. Are we to accept that all of these numerous things are going wrong with his health, all at the same time, by mere coincidence? It’s possible. But there are multiple common diagnoses (stroke, neurological disease) that would explain all of his symptoms.
Of course I’m not a medical professional, and neither are most of you. But we have a President of the United States who was dangerously unfit for office to begin with, and now his physical, mental, and cognitive abilities appear to be in freefall – even as he relies on quack doctors who release obviously falsified medical reports that claim he’s in perfect health. We need answers about what’s going so wrong with Trump’s health. When trying to figure it out, let’s make sure we look at all his symptoms on the whole, and not just each symptom in isolation.
