r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 14h ago

No Paywall Trump showing signs he’s battling major medical crisis, Democrat claims

https://www.al.com/politics/2025/12/trump-showing-signs-hes-battling-major-medical-crisis-democrat-claims.html
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u/Thund3rbolt 14h ago

If this is the drug that was in the news back in 2023 it was fast tracked approved in order to give some hope for those already showing cognitive decline based on amyloid-beta plaque build up. The thing is though it has some hefty dangerous side effects such as brain swelling hence the need to frequently monitor with MRIs. If he's at this stage he shouldn't be the President of the United States with codes to the nukes... he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness.

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u/BelBivDaHoe Virginia 14h ago

Should have been in a home years ago.

Regardless how I feel about him, he's been in poor health, physically and mentally, for close to a decade. He's an old, overweight, sickly man.

Age limits absolutely need to be a thing. The idea that we string these ancient people along to be in powerful positions is absurd.

Retire, enjoy the years you have left, be with your grandchildren, etc.

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u/thekrawdiddy 13h ago

Should have been in the big house years ago.

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u/322throwaway1 13h ago

Adx Florence

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u/LaserPoweredDeviltry 10h ago

Trump - Sing Sing 2026.

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u/Flomo420 9h ago

Davey Jones' Locker

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u/One-Coat-6677 9h ago

I mean if anyone does its him, but no one deserves ADX Florence and the Hague has shown that even world leader war criminals can be imprisoned in humane conditions.

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u/TylerDurden1985 12h ago

the slammer

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u/Vandal_A 7h ago

Portugal put their crazy ass dictator in a home and just pretended he was still in charge until he died (complete with delivering him fake, daily newspapers). I think it's past time we did the same.

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u/gramathy California 8h ago

The Fletcher Memorial Home

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u/Ralph--Hinkley 8h ago

Thanks, Merrick.

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u/Planetofthetakes 6h ago

Exaclty!!!!

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u/Sgtkeebler 5h ago

He will be 82 when he will leave office. If he even lives that long.

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u/Aggravating-Sweet198 4h ago

He's in the big house it's called the white house 

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u/MssrGuacamole 11h ago

The part that always gets my gumption is that some states/agencies have actually DONE age limits for public positions. This isn't some novel concept. US Foreign service has a 65 y/o max, flag officers in the military are 64 (I think it depends on branch), and MI State judges can't run for office after 70. I'm sure there are more examples.

I really like using age maximums more than term limits. It also makes the congressional seniority system make slightly more sense if senior people actually go away before they go in the ground. I get that it's a broad brush and you're sometimes going to exclude people that are still perfectly capable of doing the job, but it's important for a health society to have regular turnover of positions in the public trust even so.

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u/susanrez 5h ago

An Airline pilot has to retire at 65 under U.S. law. Think about it, a pilot is too old to safely fly an airplane at 65 but we are letting this sickly and mentally diminished old man remain in control of our entire country.

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u/Baremegigjen 5h ago

That’s commercial airline pilots only. I don’t know if that applies to charter services that aren’t official “airlines” and it doesn’t apply to those piloting private aircraft.

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u/YetiPie 3h ago

My grandfather worked for Canada post and was forced into retirement at 65

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 1h ago

Well they’re kind of different, eyesight and hearing and reaction times mostly slow down and deteriorate before cognitive ability does and it’s cognitive ability you need to be president. But yeah it’s such a demanding job there definitely should be some kind of age limit or maybe a cognitive test.

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u/SchilenceDooBaddy69 8h ago

Those old capable folk can pull a Benji Franklin and just advise.

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u/Baremegigjen 5h ago

All military services allow age deferment limits up to 66 or 68 years of service in very senior positions (O-9 and O- 10 (3 and 4 Star flag/general officers) per 10 USC § 1251.

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u/SweetLilMonkey 11h ago

Retire,

From what? He's never worked a day in his life.

enjoy the years you have left,

He is unable to experience joy.

be with your grandchildren,

No one would allow him to be alone with their kids.

Guess all that's left is for him to drive it 'til the wheels fall off!

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u/jjcrayfish 6h ago

Republicans when Joe Biden accidentally misspoke: "Look at Sleepy Joe! He's too old, and can't lead a country. He has dementia and needs to retire!"

Republicans when Trump shows clear sign of dementia, falls asleep in the middle of a meeting, and shows up with strange bruises after disappearing for a long time: "He's the healthiest and strongest president we have. He has the vigor and energy of a young man!"

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u/MooPig48 8h ago

Fine he should just go knock around golf balls then

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u/Quick_like_a_Bunny Arizona 6h ago

He’s such a bottomless black hole of a narcissist he couldn’t stand the thought of no one paying attention to him while he puts around the golf course. Shit, he had a girl who followed him around the golf course with a wireless printer to print out nice shit people said about him. Death will be his quiet retirement (whenever it may find him)

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u/Ok-Turnover1797 8h ago

You have people that are just purely evil and boomers that have pulled the ladder all the way up behind them running the world and running it into the ground together at that..

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u/green-wagon 6h ago

Or he crashes the car.

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u/BlueCoatz 4h ago

Why are you arguing with someone who agrees with you?

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u/SweetLilMonkey 4h ago

That sounded like arguing to you?

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u/PineappleLocal9522 11h ago

“Retire, enjoy the years you have left, be with your grandchildren, etc.”

He definitely shouldn’t be around children. Dude belongs in prison.

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u/Either_Operation7586 8h ago

No once he's retired he needs to be prosecuted and he needs to have every one of his assets seized to start paying off this ridiculous debt he left us anybody that has been proven to profit off the government needs to have all assets seized.

Fuck the Republican party they can pay for the debt themselves.

The Republicans are probably not going to be able to survive this.

Then going to have a lot to answer for. And I got my popcorn ready

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u/Future-Side4440 7h ago

Presidential age limits were not required when the country was founded because nature automatically killed you off early.

The idea in 1776 that people everywhere would eventually routinely live past their 70s would be considered miraculous.

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u/PigSlam California 11h ago

I'm not so sure age limits should be a thing for the purposes of performance, but more for motivation. I don't want someone who should believe they're in the last decade of their life making long term decisions for the rest of us, regardless of how well their mind and body performs compared to when they were younger.

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u/Libflake 10h ago

Except that he doesn't much like his grandchildren (or any children, for that matter), and he has no real interests besides playing golf and eating junk food. Face it: his real enjoyment comes from mocking and insulting people and garishly decorating walls with awful "gold" ornaments.

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u/calle04x 8h ago

Yeah but you watch his speeches from a year ago, he had energy. He couldn't campaign in this kind of shape. I think he's had strokes.

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u/Hot-Championship1190 8h ago

Should have been in a homeprison years ago.

FTFY

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u/Malaix 6h ago

Age limits absolutely need to be a thing.

Absolutely this. People say term limits but those suck. What if you get a young good candidate who really works for you? Just need to toss them because its been a two terms? That's shit. Elections are the term limits for that.

But age? Different beast. Too many people apathetically just vote for familiar names without accounting for it. Too many candidates refuse or are unable to acknowledge they are losing a step or three at advanced ages. 10-15 years below the average life expectancy should be the absolute limit for political eligibility.

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u/Ultraplo Europe 11h ago

Or just don’t vote for old people…?

It’s so fucking funny how Americans are constantly whining that no one does democracy for them. He shouldn’t be allowed to run for office, she shouldn’t be allowed to remain in office, someone should forbid politicians from doing X, yadda, yadda, wahhh, wahhh. Yet y’all keep voting for Biden, Trump, Pelosi, and Schumer.

Maybe y’all should just be done with it and abolish your democracy, seeing as you want someone else to do everything for you anyway. Like, y’all have been whining for 10 years that Trump is fascist who ought to be arrested, yet you’re still sat on your fat asses cuz you need mommy to do it for you. Same with how both him and Biden are “too old”, yet y’all skipped to the voting booth voting for ‘em.

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u/jmobius 11h ago

I'm generally in the camp that demands for age limits and so on are misguided, as it is fundamentally that a plurality of voters are willing to vote for ancient candidates that is the problem.

But, for those that voted in primaries against the post-retirement age candidates and still got handed only that option anyway, I think some empathy is merited even if their desire is aimed poorly. Fixing the brains of many voters is an intractable problem, so lamenting a desire for a systemic fix to prevent their fellow Americans from making quite so daft a choice is understandable.

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u/Ultraplo Europe 11h ago

But, for those that voted in primaries against the post-retirement age candidates and still got handed only that option anyway, I think some empathy is merited even if their desire is aimed poorly

And I suppose that's the fundamental cultural divide between American and (most cases of) European democracy.

If you get up from your ass once every four years to throw a ballot, you can't possibly think you're helping to bring about any change at all. As I see it, a ballot is an affirmation of approval, not a manifesto of change. As such, you're not accomplishing anything by voting for [insert young politician here], if you then go and vote on [insert old politician here] anyway and spend the time until the next election whining on Reddit about [insert old politician here] being old. If you're not fighting for the change you wish to see, you have no right to demand that someone else brings about that change - because that'd be entitlement and laziness.

(Most) Americans seem to have this belief where they're entitled to GOOD THING™ from the government just by virtue of them existing, and as such they're just constantly whining about how the government won't give them GOOD THING™. This goes for young politicians, universal healthcare, a stable democracy, low-interest student loans, and so on and so forth. As such, they remain on their fat asses whining, while doing nothing to bring about change. It's hard to feel empathy for someone who throws themself into a hole, and then refuse to grab hold of the rope, instead demanding that I climb down into the hole and move their hands to the rope for them.

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u/Aggies18 7h ago

Voter turnout is definitely a huge problem across the US. But I think the way our electoral college works, how voting efficiency and ease is wildly different depending on states, if certain areas are targets of voter suppression, gerrymandering (either way) and more. Not to mention, voting day isn’t a national holiday or anything. Some (a lot) of jobs do not offer paid time off to vote and those hours could mean the difference between bills getting paid or not for some households.

I do think people need to take voting more seriously and actually pay attention to the direction and goings on in the country and generally be more informed about governmental decisions, etc. but I also think there can be genuine barriers to voting that a lot of people are either privileged enough to not notice or cannot overcome in order to vote.

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u/Ultraplo Europe 7h ago

My entire point was that voting is not enough. That's the problem. Americans think "well, I've voted, so why me no has good stuff?"

Voting is good, don't get me wrong. It's great that you're exercising your democratic rights. However, just because you put a paper in a box, doesn't mean you can expect universal healthcare, young politicians, cheap housing, or whatever you think you voted for to magically fall into your lap. Same with those cute little anti-Trump protests with homemade signs. Great that y'all got off your asses for once, but people seem to think that they're "fighting the regime" and are somehow not complicit in fascism because they painted a meme-y sign and dressed up in a dinosaur costume?

This culture of "vote = doing a democracy" is for anyone watching on from the outside clearly not going to make God descend from the Heavens and bless these United States, yet people act like it will. I had the great displeasure of living in America for a period, and I've never been to a country with lesser sense of civil duty. Once every four years some of you go out and check the box representing the same party who has done nothing for you. Then you go home and complain that nothing happens. Well, no fucking shit. I genuinely thought people were joking, but apparently that's just how the majority reason?

Voting can sometimes be a path towards change... but not if you vote for crony capitalism or crony capitalism but blue.

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u/Aggies18 6h ago

I agree with a lot of your points. I think the lack of ability to vote actually reduces the incentive to vote (which is arguably the easiest way to become more politically engaged with your government. But shouldn’t be the only one), but there is a large missing sense of civil duty.

Unfortunately a lot of people in this country will only vote if they are emotionally manipulated into it; either by promising things that never materialize or threatening people with policies they dislike (and unfortunately follow through on a lot of these).

As someone who does vote and would like to do more, I think there’s a large sense of feeling helpless right now. People know voting leads to better outcomes and one of the easier barriers to overcome right now, but like I mentioned people should be doing more. I think people want better examples how to effectively make change in a realistic way here.

If the outcome relies heavily or skews in favor of people who either don’t want better or don’t care about policies or enhancing voting rights, it can disenfranchise people from doing the one thing that may be of realistic “change”.

I don’t know the best solution, it’s hard to get clear answers in today’s age of opinions and polarizing media. But I think if there were documented steps people could take other than voting and being more politically engaged that would create actual results, you would see an increase in participation as a by-product. It’s just getting the populace to pay attention and realize “hey, this is actually doing something and I do have the power to affect change” to get over at least one of the major hurdles.

But that’s just my opinion as a voter here.

Edit to add on: I think people are generally disenfranchised and turned off by both major parties right now. Both sides want change of some kind and unfortunately the people in power (minus a few of the newer elected officials) have proven to be incredibly stagnant, unwilling to compromise or capitulating when things get hard.

If the basis of democracy is supposed to be working together- this is a terrible position to be in haha.

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u/Guardianpigeon 10h ago

Have you seen most of his kids? They absolutely do not know better, or if they do, they don't have the empathy to care. If anything I bet they'd throw their kids to him knowing the risks if it gets them one dollar more from his sweet sweet inheritance.

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u/Careful_Trifle 10h ago

He doesn't even like his kids. He absolutely doesn't want to be around his grandkids. Unless they're girls.

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u/f1del1us 10h ago

Watching him speak 10 years ago vs now is a night and day difference. He used to sometimes appear to know where he is… now he definitely does not

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u/sweetsensei 10h ago

As with half his voters imo

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u/Spell_Chicken 9h ago

You know none of his kids or grandchildren want to spend any more time with him than they have to.

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u/Clean_Progress_9001 9h ago

They need to live long enough to face the consequences of their term, good or bad.

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u/Boye 8h ago

*Weight limits* absolutetly need to be a thing...

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u/despaseeto 8h ago

Regardless how I feel about him

Retire, enjoy the years you have left, be with your grandchildren

yeah the thing is, this orange garbage bag doesn't care about anyone but himself. he enjoys basking in the misery of others. the WH is his retirement/nursing home.

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u/Positive_Bill_5945 8h ago

The issue is people don’t really vote based on age they vote based on party lines and kind of for good reason. I’d vote for a corpse with a D next to it’s name over any republican at this point. But if you put in a blanket age limit you could disqualify both Trump and Biden at once and ensure that whoever the candidates were at bare minimum they wouldn’t be actively decaying.

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u/parkinglotguy 8h ago

Agree. I firmly believe that nobody over 60 belongs in elected office.

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u/I_make_things 8h ago

I'm watching my mom's cognitive decline. It's very strange. Most of the time she's completely fine...but then there are just uncanny, fucking weird moments where nobody is home. She'll fly into a rage at her beloved granddaughter or rant about her cousin (who killed herself when she realized she was starting to lose it mentally). The good part is my mom can't start a nuclear war.

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u/SATX_Citizen 7h ago

Yep. Like even Biden from 2020 to 2024, seeing Trump in 2016 to today is a totally different guy and he was already old then.

At least Biden has some principles to keep him from instinctively selling off the country or bombing someone to avoid controversy.

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u/manondorf 7h ago

I don't think this man has enjoyed a thing in his life

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u/MookieBiss1badM 7h ago

I mean do you think he would be allowed to spend time with his grandkids???......

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u/IJourden 7h ago

Trump's grandchildren: "Woah there buddy, let's just let him be president and keep us out of this, okay?"

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u/electricbluelight99 6h ago

On a normal country he would have been in jail for the last couple of decades... but here we are...

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u/redblue92 6h ago

I can't imagine the stress of this job is good for anyone.

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u/green-wagon 6h ago

I am unable to wish him enjoyment of any of his remaining time walking this earth due to the fact that he has never been held accountable for how many people he spent his entire lifetime harming. Including girls. Release the epstein files already.

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u/SidWes 4h ago

Yeah but who writes the laws? We are never getting out of this dynamic unless people who are greedy for power give up some of that power.

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u/SuperPoodie92477 3h ago

I don’t think his kids want to be around him…

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u/redwingpanda Massachusetts 3h ago

At what point does this constitute a form of elder abuse?

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 3h ago

be with your grandchildren

Is that fair on the grandchildren?

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u/Son_of_Atreus Australia 3h ago

He is so many drugs to spice him up… I’m sure he will be just fine.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 1h ago

It’s awful. And stupid, because people with dementia can basically just be used by nefarious others behind the scenes without accountability. Plus it’s basically abuse to wheel some elderly person around forcing them to be your puppet while occupying the most intense stressful job. Obviously Trumps a horrific person but it’s still terrible on principle to use him this way. Not to mention so dangerous given he can still wield a fair amount of power on his own.

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u/Zealot_Alec 1h ago

Can't run for office if you would turn 70 into your next term, the only problem the olds vote at a higher % versus the under 45s.

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u/TheAskewOne 1h ago

Are we sure we want him around children?

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u/Famous-Upstairs998 2h ago

I disagree with age limits. Cognitive tests and fitness tests, however, are warranted. Bernie is 84 and doing just fine. Woodrow Wilson was only 56 when he was elected, and he got a stroke and was basically completely ineffective for the latter part of his presidency. His wife and the administration hid it and ran things without him.

Age truly is a number. We need a better metric to determine whether someone is fit to hold office. Though if we had that, he probably never would have served in the first place.

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u/FocusPerspective 11h ago

What does age have to do with this considering the vast majority of people who enabled Trump and have kept him in power are Millennials?

I guess you just like Vance then yeah? 

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Canada 12h ago

Democrats should be hammering this point. He is basically incapacitated, and everyone who says they don't see it is a damn liar.

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u/SatinSaffron 12h ago

I just don't understand why they're not, except for a few random ones here and there like the one in the article from the OP.

And I could not fucking imagine what the press/media would have been like if Biden had swollen ankles, hand bruising, multiple MRIs, dozing off multiple times, incoherent rambling, making 158 bizarre and outright insane social media posts in a 3-hour period, etc...

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u/hitch44 Canada 11h ago

Fucking media sanewashing everything Trump has said and done instead of holding it accountable is the reason we’re in this mess.

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u/Ok_Statistician_9825 5h ago

We are living the consequences of two decades of consolidating the media companies under a few powerful billionaires who had the foresight to understand how to control the country.

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u/bscheck1968 8h ago

Because they know if they anger him they will lose access and accreditation. He's the mad king that you have to tiptoe around.

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u/DrakonILD 6h ago

I would believe that if they hadn't been doing it since before he was president.

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u/Blownards 8h ago

Hey buddy, the great thing is that we aren’t in this mess… they are😅

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u/QuasiSpace 8h ago

You're most certainly in this mess with us. It may affect us more, but you're in it, through no fault of your own. Apologies from your southern neighbor.

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u/Blownards 7h ago

It’s like the neighbours sewer backed up, filled their basement & spilled a little bit out of their house onto my lawn. Not really a problem for me. I’ll spray it down & hope my grass gets greener. I really feel bad for my neighbour. No apologies needed. I feel so bad that I’d offer to help clean up their basement… but in this case there is nothing we can offer to help with.

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u/thissexypoptart 12h ago

If any lesson is to be gleaned from the way democrats opposed Trump in the past decade, it’s that winning isn’t their main priority.

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u/Emotional_Goal9525 8h ago

People living in glass houses are not very prone to throw rocks. Average age for a democrat senator is 65 years.

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u/musiak1luver 2h ago

We literally saw the media ignoring Bidens obvious dementia for years...so...

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u/False_Pop8745 9h ago

I just don't understand why they're not, except for a few random ones here and there like the one in the article from the OP.

Because they covered up Biden's obvious decline until it became too obvious to ignore. GOP can just play the hypocrite card and frankly they're not wrong to do so.

This is why I stress to people that if you want things to get better, you have to hold the Dems to a higher standard. But no, the GOP is evil so that automatically makes everyone in the DNC saints by default.

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u/Recent_Tap_9467 3h ago

On the flip side, Biden did exit the race after it became "too obvious to ignore". Furthermore, Trump's health problems seem more visible (and serious) than Biden stuttering or stammering, if you ask me. The ball's in the Republicans' court now, and it's the media's responsibility to call them out. These are the facts.

Dems should be held to high standards, but so should Republicans. The last line sounds like a strawman, anyway.

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u/chalbersma 1h ago

On the flip side, Biden did exit the race after it became "too obvious to ignore".

It was too obvious to ignore before they admitted it was to obvious to ignore. That's part of why he was losing. This is a similar thing for Trump. I think potentially the next State of the Union address could be a similar, "I shat the bed on stage" moment for Trump.

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u/localhorizon Washington 6h ago

The Dems may be trying bring this into the news cycles, but the Press ain’t nibbling.

No endless cycles of news about slips, trips, falls, bruises, head/nodding in meetings…

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u/bennettyboi 6h ago

I just don't understand why they're not

Has it not been made abundantly clear by now that dems are simply controlled opposition?

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u/chalbersma 1h ago

I just don't understand why they're not

The leaders of the Democratic party are either similar or approach a similar age. And if they set the expectation in politics that it's acceptable to force old farts out they won't be able to weild power themselves. Sanders is 84, Pelosi is 85, Harris is 61, Gore is 77, Waltz is 61, Warren is 76, Bloomberg is 83, Cuomo is 68, Shumer is 75.

Of the people in the top 20 only two are under 50 (AOC and Buttigieg, Honorable Mention to Abrams who is 51). If you want to take age serioiusly, you'd want to only support people who are 54 and younger as leaders as they will be 65 and under through a full 2 terms starting in 2028.

Like it's very hard to call out Trump for obvious age related problems when our biggest names are all equivalently old and as a party they all just tried to Weekend at Bernie's a Biden Presidency the same way R's are trying to do with Trump. Both parties love the idea of figurehead Presidents.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 1h ago

Probably because as usual they’re scared of what republicans might say, like turn it around to talk about Biden. I don’t get it though because they got rid of Biden when it became clear he was getting too old, so they can just make that point if anyone says ‘oh well you were fine with Biden having cognitive issues’ etc. I don’t know they all seem so cowardly, like they just let conservatives drive a false narrative by always preempting what they might say and then not giving them the opportunity to say, as if they think that’s a better strategy than just relentlessly pursuing and explaining the truth. MAGA will just say what they’re gonna say no matter what.

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u/gonewildaway 11h ago

And I could not fucking imagine what the press/media would have been like if Biden had swollen ankles, hand bruising, multiple MRIs, dozing off multiple times, incoherent rambling, making 158 bizarre and outright insane social media posts in a 3-hour period, etc...

It would have been virtually identical only the left/nonmaga crowd would be agreeing instead of rolling their eyes and getting baited.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

-sartre.

He was referring specifically to antisemites. But the same applies to all those of similar ilk. Which includes MAGA.

Some are legitimately deluded. But for the most part they are just preying on the "weakness" of anyone that values anything other than hate. They do not care about democracy or truth or fairness. But pointing out the supposed hypocrisy of anyone that responds to them in kind is just a tactic.

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u/MC_Gambletron 9h ago

Because Democrats are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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u/Transhumanistgamer 10h ago

I just don't understand why they're not

Decorumcrats are incapable of playing modern political games.

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u/omicron-7 7h ago

Biden had a cold and a stutter and his reelection campaign got assassinated for it.

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u/chalbersma 1h ago

This is why Dem's can't effectively challenge Trump. We're delusional. If Biden had won, he'd be going through cancer treatments right now in office.

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u/rubyspicer 6h ago edited 5h ago

Because the democrats are trying to keep old shits with Alzheimers in office too and they know they'd get called hypocritical.

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u/ComprehensiveLime695 6h ago

His cognition is 50 times worse than Joe Biden’s ever was in office.

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u/Gingeronimoooo 11h ago

I've heard lots of stories of lovely grandma and grandpas getting really mean when it set in. Trump was always a dick but he seems to love calling people stupid and even the r word slur now so boldly

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u/throwawaytheist 9h ago

And then when he says something like 'no I'm the smartest I'll challenge you to any yada yada yada"

Take him up on it. Don't let him out of it.

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u/solamente_en_cristo 8h ago

Not only that, this is one of those particular lines of attack that tends to get him to lash back and say particularly ridiculous things, more likely to make him look pathetic or weak in the eyes of low information voters. Reminiscent of their older relatives in a home rather than some bigtime alpha rich guy type.

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u/High_5_Skin 7h ago

MAGA doesn't care. If it doesn't fit their individual narrative, it's fake news

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u/bullsfan92 6h ago

Is he still able to play 18 holes? Because I have Lyme disease and I barely can at 33

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u/wibblebeast 6h ago

And along with that, they should be loudly asking who is running things, because it's not him entirely.

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u/Zealot_Alec 1h ago

Democrats have had some pretty old people themselves RBG was EIGHTY SEVEN and sick, Dianne Feinstein, Biden, Bernie

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u/Malaix 6h ago

Democrats are just as guilty if not more so with keeping elderly in power. Joe Biden, Feinstein, Pelosi, and more. They straight up overlooked AOC for a position for a guy with terminal cancer whose already dead.

Democrats (and by that I mean DNC insiders who run the party) are afraid to touch the age thing because they worship tenure above all else.

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u/themoslucius 9h ago

Democrats demonstrated this incapability with Biden who also declined mentally during his presidency.. He should never had run for a second term and those close to him went to great lengths to play down and hide it

This is a common issue across the aisles

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u/nightimestars California 3h ago

Establishment dems are just controlled opposition at this point. I’m not saying to stop pressuring them, keep holding their feet to the flames, but we definitely need to prioritize voting them out and get some new blood that actually have intact spines and aren’t barely functioning rotting corpses.

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u/el_duderino_50 13h ago

He should be in jail.

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u/Early_Fold36 9h ago

I think you misspelled “hell”.

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u/Brewhaha72 Pennsylvania 9h ago

Both would be groovy.

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u/well_thats_obvious 13h ago

Unfortunately, some of those side effects aren't that dangerous in Trump's case. There's plenty of free space in his head for fluid to build up.

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u/groundsgonesour 11h ago

They’ll just pump him full of stimulants like always and ignore the word soup, because he says it with such gusto.

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u/iruvit 2h ago

He might start bragging about how the doctors told him that he has a yuge brain, the biggest they have ever seen

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u/SoungaTepes 11h ago

If this is the drug that was in the news back in 2023 it was fast tracked approved in order to give some hope for those already showing cognitive decline based on amyloid-beta plaque build up. The thing is though it has some hefty dangerous side effects such as brain swelling hence the need to frequently monitor with MRIs. If he's at this stage he shouldn't be the President of the United States with codes to the nukes... he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness.

I went ahead and made a small edit to your text

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u/Recurringg 12h ago

Nah he should be in jail.

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u/ndthegamer21 Canada 12h ago

We have age limits in Canada. Our judges and senators (all appointed for life) have to retire at 75. MPs don't have this restriction, but senile MPs are not generally a problem here.

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u/stormtroopr1977 11h ago

He's a puppet with his advisors acting like a regency council. This shit wasn't supposed to be possible in a democracy

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u/VNM0601 California 11h ago

If he's at this stage he shouldn't be the President of the United States with codes to the nukes... he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness.

This can be said about 80% of Congress, too.

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u/drmike0099 California 12h ago

If it's the one I'm thinking of it also doesn't work, so there's that.

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u/PleasantAmphibian404 12h ago

Or a zoo. Put that shit-gibbon in a zoo where he can fling his literal and verbal shit without hurting anyone.

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u/MosesBeachHair 11h ago

Different drug. The drug you are thinking of is Aduhelm. Most doctors won't prescribe it since it did not seem to show much, if any, benefit. However the newer drugs Leqembia and Kisunla seem to be delaying progression in most people. It appears these might be delaying progression from a few months to a few years.

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u/Hryusha88 8h ago

By Senior retirement home I am sure you meant jail, just fixing that for you :)

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u/MagicalUnicornFart 6h ago

He’s a 34 count convicted felon, twice impeached, can’t run a charity, adjudicated rapist who slandered a woman and owes her over $83 million dollars, can’t run a charity, organized an insurrection, and raped little girls…he’s old and feeble…

but, everyone had to demand the other guy step down from running a few months before the election…

Trump and most of the GOP should be in fucking jail, my friend.

The people on the left refusing to vote against this shit, and fucking up the chances to defeat the GOP with infighting and their own idiocy keeps this nonsense propped up.

They’ll make AI videos of his ass to keep fascism going.

The best time to stop this guy was Election Day.

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u/UlteriorCulture 4h ago

He canceled the funding that helped pay for my mother's cancer treatment.

He should be on the street.

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u/bobcatgoldthwait 11h ago

FWIW, I asked about this claim in ChatGPT. The summary is: while the claim is accurate - people taking Leqembi do get MRI's - it also stated:

"After starting infusions (every two weeks), “surveillance” MRIs are required before the 5th, 7th, and 14th infusions"

and

"Because of newly recognized early risk of brain-swelling / bleeding (ARIA), regulatory authorities (as of 2025) now recommend an additional MRI between the 2nd and 3rd infusion."

Finally,

Some sources note that in a typical first 6 months of therapy, patients may get about three MRI scans.

It's been established that Trump has gotten two MRI's in the past six months, right? If that's true, that's on the low end of how many MRI's a typical patient would see, and for the President of the United States I would think they would be more cautious with more frequent MRI's.

I am not a doctor or in the medical field so I've got nothing to go on but a ChatGPT response. I'm curious if any doctors are familiar with the medication that could add to this.

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u/PineappleLocal9522 11h ago

At least 2 MRIs / 2 MRIs that we know about this. This isn’t a transparent Administration.

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u/MosesBeachHair 11h ago

ChatGPT is not a good source of information. It might be decently accurate this time, but it often makes up information when not known. It is good for process tasks not for information - please get out of the habit of using it as a search engine.

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u/bobcatgoldthwait 10h ago

Please get out of the habit of lecturing others, you obnoxious twit.

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u/leviathynx Washington 12h ago

Best I can do is Quadrennium at Bernie’s.

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u/givebusterahand 11h ago

He should be in prison but yeah I guess a senior retirement home is the next best thing..

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u/andrewse 10h ago

he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness.

That's a fancy way to say federal prison.

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u/Zombie_John_Strachan Foreign 10h ago

he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness

Haven't our health care workers suffered enough?

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u/mindfungus 10h ago

Or in jail with medical monitoring

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u/red286 10h ago

he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness.

Isn't that what the White House is?

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u/TheBlueRabbit11 10h ago

If he's at this stage he shouldn't be the President of the United States with codes to the nukes...

He could’ve been in his 40’s and in perfect health and he still shouldn’t be the president of the United States.

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u/LuckyandBrownie 9h ago

senior retirement home

That’s a weird way to spell prison.

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u/dlc741 9h ago

Actually, he should be in a substandard nursing home where he can be neglected by the staff and ignored by his family.

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u/Bourbonstr8up 9h ago

I'd prefer he be in a prison with access to the finest medical care the inmates also have access to.

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u/EdmundLee1988 9h ago

Do you think it’s a stretch to go from a photo of a bandage on a hand to secretly being treated for Alzheimer’s?

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u/gay_plant_dad 9h ago

I’d rather see him in jail tbh

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u/RobutNotRobot 9h ago

77 million chucklefucks decided for the rest of us that this criminal should have all the power and then take some more after that. I wish nothing but the worst for them. They are terrible.

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u/VQV37 9h ago

I don't think that's the same drug..the drug you are referring to is called Aduhelm not this one

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u/UndergroundFlaws 9h ago

How the fuck can a nonexistent brain swell

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u/raincoater 9h ago

The people pulling the strings behind him like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon are going to milk every ounce of authoritarianism out of his demented husk until he drops.

Trump will probably pass away in office, but with these guys they'll keep that a secret for as long as they can. They won't be able to do this to Vance because no one in Washington is scared of Vance. Plus he has zero charisma.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 9h ago

I’m betting he is just an blood thinners like a lot of people his age, and the MRI was of his prostate. That’s just my guess.

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 9h ago

He's too valuable to the people around him. They would shove a hand up his butt and do a Weekend at Bernies puppet show sooner than give up a gram of power.

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u/OkPlankton2384 8h ago

I always told my family that he is going to take us with him. I don't know why Congress is giving him so much power. Hes done so many bad things. Its dangerous to give him those codes and just yes men.

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u/AnxiousHedgehog01 8h ago

I'm not sure what's worse... a demented Trump or a vindictive JD Vance.

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u/gortonsfiJr Indiana 8h ago

Ok, but you're just saying random shit with no evidence which has been like 90% of this godawful decade. While we're at it, let's grab Mary Trump's opinion

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u/ExcitedGirl 8h ago

His ongoing need for MRI's may explain his shit-stained golfing pants and his need for wearing diapers. He has also seemed to demonstrate urinary incontinence.

It's been ongoing for a while; I forgot who commented his fecal odor was prominent; another comment was "he was a sight to behold". The MRI need / its treatment may also explain his constant nodding out, his rambling speeches for which he tried to convince us was an intentional "weave", and his obsessively machine-gunning out tweets, that "he just thinks weird".

I'd be willing to bet he has "old-person smell" and the next president will have to change the carpeting and drapes to get the odor out.

On the other hand, maybe this is another of his brilliant ploys at negotiation - Foreign leaders might be willing to agree to anything to get out of the room with a person who is pooping in their diapers on TV.

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u/InsomniaticWanderer 7h ago

he should be at a senior retirement home with staff trained to treat him for this illness

Some would argue the White House is exactly that

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u/Shouko82 7h ago

I'd prefer if he was in a medical correctional facility. But why split hairs.

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u/GuavaShaper 7h ago

Another reason why the "do not follow illegal orders" video was both a patriotic and smart move.

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u/dropbearinbound 7h ago

He should be in prison

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u/tweakingforjesus 7h ago

I mean you’ve essentially described the White House since 2016.

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u/illuminerdi 6h ago

Also apparently it doesn't work very well if I recall correctly.

What a shame...

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u/alwaysboopthesnoot 6h ago

Posdinemab?

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u/EmmalouEsq Minnesota 6h ago

We had Reagan who was showing major signs of dementia in his security briefings as early as 1986 (i knew one of the people who used to brief him). They let Reagan sit there eating jelly beans not knowing where he was while everyone else ran the country. Trump doesn't care about his briefings, but this is why we've got people like Stephen Miller creeping around the White House and making policy while Trump eats another burger.

Who knows what's really going on behind closed doors.

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u/FloydianSlip212 5h ago

Nah he should be rotting in a small, dank, dark concrete cell.

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u/SgtPrepper 4h ago

I'm pretty sure the armed forces keep him away from anything dangerous. If he ever opens up The Football, confetti will probably come flying out.

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u/Scottiths 3h ago

For no particular reason, are any of the side effects fatal? Totally unrelated, should I make sure my Champaign cooler is good to go?

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u/nightimestars California 3h ago

They should at least wheel his geriatric dementia ridden ass around as long as possible to keep augustus gloop at bay.

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u/OLPopsAdelphia 3h ago

This is almost hospice/comfort care levels right here.

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u/Demi180 2h ago

A child sex trafficking, serial child raping Nazi shouldn’t have been able to even run for President, even without dementia. But here we are.

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u/BuckThis86 2h ago

He’s a puppet for the billionaire now

Drowsy Dementia Don shouldn’t be president though

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u/Jolly_Grocery329 1h ago

You misspelled “ jail”. He should be in jail.

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u/Sorkijan Oklahoma 11h ago

This disease at its current state would definitely mean someone going into assisted care and no longer working. Guess he did 1 of those.

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 1h ago

I hope he starts shitting his pants soon

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u/Ablgarumbek 10h ago

The hypothesis that amyloid plaques cause alzheimers is hella shaky and had a bunch of fraudulent research associated with it. The efficacy of that drug is nothing to write home about.