‘Tis the pre-election season, where a slew of new books have come out or are coming out about the Trump “presidency.” This week, we’re apparently talking about Donald Trump V. The United States by Michael S. Schmidt (a Pulitzer-Prize winning NYT reporter). Schmidt’s book is largely about the Mueller investigation and the efforts, within the administration, to rein in an unhinged orange nutjob. In excerpts released in the Times yesterday, this was a minor point:
Schmidt writes that Mitch McConnell fell asleep during a classified briefing on Russia, for example, and he details the F.B.I.’s shambolic reaction to evidence of the hacking in 2016, including an unresolved disagreement over how to handle the material. Describing Trump’s unexpected November 2019 visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he reports the White House wanted Mike Pence “on standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily if Trump had to undergo a procedure that would have required him to be anesthetized.” (The vice president never had to take this step.)
The November 2019 emergency trip to Walter Reed was explained as part of Trump’s physical… but being anesthetized is not part of any physical. So what was that Walter Reed trip about again? He was literally rushed there on a Saturday morning and no one saw him publicly for three days. While Schmidt didn’t say it, Trump went ahead and denied… something.
It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes. Never happened to THIS candidate – FAKE NEWS. Perhaps they are referring to another candidate from another Party!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2020
A series of mini-strokes, you say? A fascist who is physically deteriorating before our eyes? The dude who only bothers to deny something when it’s true? Yes, I think the chances are pretty good that Trump has been having mini-strokes. Also: it looks like Trump might have been reacting (preemptively?) to a Drudge Report headline about his strokes:
#TrumpIsNotWell pic.twitter.com/iOapEIV4gy
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 1, 2020
The Lincoln Project threw this together fast.
Why did Trump have a secretive, midnight run to Walter Reed Medical Center? It’s time we talk about it. #TrumpIsNotWell
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 1, 2020
Here’s Trump comparing cops murdering civilians to “choking” at golf.
Trump compares killing an unarmed black civilian to missing a three foot putt in a golf tournament, Ingraham jumps in to make him stop. pic.twitter.com/NeHqVn4Uvf
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 1, 2020
Here’s Trump ranting about SOUP.
I'm sorry. I've been laughing about this nonstop. I can't stop. 😭pic.twitter.com/8IAihng3vv
— Matt Rogers 🗳 (@Politidope) September 1, 2020
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
I can’t laugh at any of this. We’re going to have 4 more years of this buffoonery. They will stop at nothing to keep him in the White House.
I agree. There’s nothing funny about this. Our democracy is crashing and burning before our eyes-I alternate between despondent and furious.
I’m actually really surprised that The Drudge Report has started to turn against him. That gives me hope, but I am also suspicious of it!
Agreed, sometimes I’ll see my husband reading it and I’m like why are you reading that crap and he says he reads it about other stuff but I hate to give it traffic for anything.
Any medical experts here? Can you assure me that a series of mini strokes is just the prelude to the big, final one? Keep hope alive!
TIAs don’t always lead to massive stroke. There’s about a 50/50 shot that someone with TIA activity will end up having a massive stroke in the future.
Damn it! But still hoping!🤞🏻🤞🏻⚰️
Jerusha, I made the same response to this on Twitter, and it got me suspended for ONE WEEK! But I’m with you!
Mini strokes can lead to Sub Cortical Vascular Dementia – that is what my mother had. She had a series of mini strokes that left brain damage, which in turn caused the dementia. He is showing the same signs she did around the time she was diagnosed. You can bet he has been diagnosed but they are not ever going to release that information – Nagini is positioning herself and her family to take over the Presidency when Daddy’s condition cannot be hidden any more. If he wins the election, he and GOP will make the US into a Trump autocracy – that family are not leaving the White House.
Given his weight, drug use and fast food diet, i’d say he was more at risk of a heart attack.
I’ll applaud any exit method. Just soon, please. I have never wished for anybody’s death so much, not even Dick Cheney.
Mini strokes leading to Sub Cortical Vascular Dementia happened to my grandma as well. I don’t think she had a big stroke, but she DID have a big fall that led to her eventual death.
Yeah, given he is obese and his diet is crap, he probably already has some form cardiovascular disease (probably hypertension, atrial fibrillation)… so he’s at a very high risk of having a heart attack and a full on stroke.
Just by experience with my mom. She had small tia’s. She experienced some short term memory loss but no physical impairment. She did not have a massive one later on.
They can be. Patients that suffer from TIA are at greatest risk of a mayor vascular even (full on stroke that is not transient) shortly after the first event. The risk decreases in the following 3 years, and then progressively increases again over the next 10 years. Even with a TIA, there is a high chance that patients can have permanent damage with a transient ischemic attack (which I wouldn’t rule out of Trump, ha).
I believe he didn’t have a series of mini-strokes; I believe he had an actual, full stroke, albeit mild, that resulted in that mad dash to Walter Reed.
I’m going to spend the morning ordering large bags of soup and more black clothing so I’m ready to fly anywhere to burn a city completely to the ground and scare the bejeezus out of Rand Paul. Soros will reward me handsomely.
Nagini is in Detroit today, using our tax money to campaign illegally in a swing state.
Where the hell is my check from George Soros? I was promised our chaos would be bankrolled goddammit!!!
/s
😂🤣😂😂🤭
True about a possible full stroke. My mom’s tia’s weren’t discovered until the did a scan on her neck for other reasons.
“…your favourite President, me…”
Wow. I just…wow.
I know, right? Hell, he’s not even my favorite SHITTY President.
LOL! OMG. Miranda, you win the internet today.
He should be no one’s favorite ANYTHING! Even when he was a private citizen back in the day, many of my family members, friends plus coworkers said that “this guy is nothing but trouble” (especially when he vehemently made accusations against the “Central Park Five” now “Exonerated Five”. What an EVIL PO💩! 🤬
There are 44 other Presidents I like more.
That statement actually made me laugh out loud.
@phaedra I have a friend who thought that Trump was only famous for tabloid gossip and his numerous bankruptcies. She didn’t even realize that he had his name slapped on a bunch of shoddy buildings. And yeah, I’m a New Yorker, where we’ve despised him for decades, and we tried to tell everyone who and what he was, but they still voted the asshole in. Willful ignorance of the worst kind.
Why doesn’t he just admit it? His worshipers will vote for him no matter what. They didn’t give a shit when he admitted to routinely sexually assaulting women, or when he admitted to spying on teenaged pageant girls, or when he called murderous neo-Nazis “fine people”, or when he was revealed to be close friends with a prolific pedophile, or when he sat back and let millions of Americans contract a virus that has probably killed 200,000 of them, or when he let Russia put bounties on American soldiers, or when he brazenly tried to fuck up the upcoming election, or when he stands by and lets PoC be slaughtered by police, or when he tear gassed people for an “I’m a good Christian” photo-op, or when he encouraged his followers to attack peaceful protesters…
I’m aware that my comment went on for far too long, and yet I’m almost positive I missed some egregious bullshit that he’s pulled and gotten away with.
His ardent followers are unreachable by this point. While they may be more vocal and likely magnified by an army of bots, they are not the majority.
I have to remind myself of this every single day. We are living in a snake oil salesman’s reality show.
One of my sisters has a gay grandson in a longterm relationship and a biracial toddler great-grandson. She loves both madly. The trump administration would negate rights for both of them. And she’s a trump supporter!!!!! Constantly posts pro-trump shit on facebook, including forwarding the lies from right wing sites. I can’t comprehend it.
@Jerusha – The level of dissonance is astounding, isn’t it?
Your sister’s situation reminds me of a woman interviewed who was upset over a family member (I think it was her spouse) being deported when the raids started. She was a total dump supporter, even though it was crystal clear that immigrants other than one certain anchor baby mama were in the crosshairs of this administration.
If a second term happens, your sister can keep posting whatever lies are told about why Social Security and Medicare are being decimated. I’m sure it will be Obama’s fault.
A NY friend of mine has a son (mid 30s now) who married an OC, CA woman (VERY republiTHUG area here) and moved out here. The son and wife are HUGE Trumpet MAGAts who loved him…now, they don’t “love” him…but yell, “HE’LL KEEP MY TAXES LOWER” (they are high income bracket), and “BUT JOE’S MENTALLY UNFIT!”. This is ALL they care about, not any of what Miranda said.
My friend despairs their ignorance.
@Jan, yep, the people who argue about their taxes being the reason they vote for him only show you that they are just as bad as the frothing at the mouth worshipers of his because they care more about their money then they do about human beings and what’s being done to them in this country. If you can still defend this man after all of this you are a terrible person and there is no hope for you. Literally none.
Jan – 5th gen Californian and OC brat here (lovin’ life in the midwest these days). I used to joke that I never met a Democrat until I went away to University. But this, this is not what I grew up with. This is not that Republican party. Newt Gingrich, Ralph Reed and the “moral majority” ran the party into the religiously zealous, racist, hateful thing it is today. The Republican platform today is all the things Republicans used to say government had no place in (your church, bedroom, doctor’s office, etc.) And no one is going to take back the party for fear of losing donors. The party needs to cease to exist, so that something new can grow in its place. #GOTV
He doesn’t admit it because a) It would seriously put the 25th Amendment into play, b) A major part of his campaign is saying Biden is medically unfit for office and c) Would admit weakness, which is not part of the wanna-be dictator playbook.
ITA, he sees any physical aberration as a sign of weakness. He wrote his own doctor’s letter in the last campaign claiming perfect health and constantly attacked Hillary for that one time she stumbled while having the flu.
The only reason your comment went on for so long is because he has such a long list of behavior unacceptable in a president. It’s not your fault his rap sheet is 12 pages long.
Yes Miranda, 👍 👍 👍 👍
It’s so obvious he’s not well. So I can buy he’s had strokes. One could also argue for dementia. He really should withdraw but the Republican Party is going to prop him up
Weekend at Bernie’s style until he actually drops dead.
I bet he could still manage like, 30% of the vote, even as a corpse. Republicans are THAT stupid and racist.
Yet he and his are trying to paint Biden as having dementia. Trump is a master of projection
This is why strokeahontas was trending on twitter all day yesterday i guess? I am trying to not delve too far right now, I need the break. I saw a big argument about the appropriateness of that term. I find everything so exhausting. I may just quit it all and stick to tv and film twitter.
I hear ya! Feel the same way many days.
Yes, but that term is totally awful and demeaning to an actual Native woman (and speaks volumes about how Native people are overlooked and only thought of as stereotypes in this country). There’s no debate, it is bad and shouldn’t be used. I hope that wouldn’t be what drives you from social media (though I feel you about how awful the steady stream of bad news on sm is. Breaks are good)
The term is completely inappropriate, but it pokes him for repeatedly calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas. I don’t like the disrespect of the historical Native woman, but I get the joke and I do hope President Shiny Turd sees it and strokes out again.
I don’t care about his f*cking health. I don’t want him winning because he’s falling, I don’t want him to win because he’s the Antichrist. He’s Scientology’s demon. Vote because of that. Vote because he wants a civil war. Vote because he’s a megomanical bastard shit stain. Can the king shit with the hands not wiping? Please?
I SO wish we had “like” buttons here; I’d bang the shit out of it for this!
OMG that soup video – notice how he said a brick is too heavy to pick up? a BRICK?!?!? They are not heavy! I have to laugh … through tears… but then, Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion… 🙂
I see you, Truvy… 🙂
I know! The guy who’s been screaming about building a wall for years now doesn’t think people can lift bricks???
I thought 45 was a builder, now a brick is 2 heavy to throw, lol.
Ya, I don’t buy it only because nobody would notice mini-strokes with this one. It must have been something bigger. But you know, Obama wore a tan suit once so that’s the same.
Why is he referring to himself as candidate? Do presidents do that while running for re-election?
Between the drugs, heart disease, poor diet, manic behavior I continue to think he might not be well enough to run much longer. He rattled off into nothingness this morning. First debate is scheduled for 9/29.
That video comparing shooting black folks to choking at golf is… insane.
Oh, and Hector Projector definitely had a stroke, or strokes, mini or full. Accusing Biden of having had strokes is the clincher. He always says others are guilty of his sins.
That top photo looks like he’s almost doing ‘black face’.
Why he thinks he’s looks good in all the spectrums of Orange baffles me…
Not voting for EITHER of the senile old men propped up for this election, no matter how many rabid zealots on both sides try to convince me otherwise.
Who is trying to convince you to vote? If you don’t vote you have no say. Have a great day and don’t complain for the next four year, what you have to say don’t matter.
If you honestly believe either of these propped up puppets represent what Americans truly have to say, there’s no convincing you otherwise.
How about voting for Kamala as the president in waiting for a “senile old man” rather than Pence? Unless you’re a troll. Which you probably are, saying crap like that.
Its a troll.
only a moron would think Biden/Kamala would be worse than the Orange shit stain and Mother’s husband
The reality is that one of these men will be president. You need to accept that and vote for the less harmful one.
I’ll always vote, even if the options aren’t my preferred choices. Unless I vote, I have no right to complain about any results. You could say that I vote to preserve my right to bitch.
I hope you are trolling and not serious. If you are serious, I feel sorry for you that you are that ignorant. People are actually dying because of this president’s actions. You can’t equate Trump with Biden.
I was just going to say something similar. Ignorant people say stupid things.
The president is responsible for the appointment of approximately 4,000 people. Heads of departments and their juniors. Secretary of State, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Health and Human Services, etc etc. The Environmental Protection Agency. Plus Supreme Court judges. Consider this in your decision.
When Trump moved into the White House he didn’t know he had to hire 1,000’s of staffers. He thought the people who worked for the previous president would work for him. Every normal president uses the time between the election and inauguration to line up staff to take over on day 1.
You are voting for more than one man. You are voting for a team. You are voting for America. You are voting for us.
Susan Sarandon, is that you? Still being stupid about this I see.
Still bitter you can’t vote for senile old Bernie?
Who also had a massive heart attack
Bags of soup? What the hell is he talking about???? Can anyone confirm that “protesters” are throwing bags of soup at cops???
He is actually in our little NC town speaking right now…
I’ve just realised that Trump stopped coloring his hair. Is it to look more presidential (won’t work) for the next round of elections? Or is he actually following social distancing guide lines (nah)?
I think he can’t lift his arms over his head anymore ( he always “styles” his own hair).
“Your favourite president, me” LOL. But Biden should take a drug test.
Shitler is a perfect candidate for strokes, so I would definitely believe this report. Unfortunately, even small strokes can lead to significant cognitive damage. He wasn’t working with a full deck to begin with, so it is scary that his condition could now be even worse. He could now be more irrational, more confused, in short, even LESS able to handle his job than he was before. Very bad situation.
In short, I hope and pray he is defeated. Soundly.
If, heaven forbid, he is re-elected, I pray the Democrats win the Senate. At least the orange menace could be contained if both houses of Congress are run by same people.