American presidents don’t have a stellar record of transparency about their health problems.
After a polio diagnosis that caused paralysis of his lower body, Franklin Delano Roosevelt used a wheelchair to get around, but went to great lengths to conceal it from the public. John F Kennedy suffered debilitating back pain, but most Americans never had a clue, seeing only a vigorous and youthful politician.
And, more recently – and infamously – Joe Biden’s White House staff worked to conceal his age-related decline, until that was no longer possible. After a disastrous debate performance and belated press coverage, Biden called off his re-election bid in 2024.
But of course Trumpy is mad, senile and – ! – right wing. So, off w”im.
So transparent, eh?
I think we can summarise this article into two words:
Grrr, Drumpf.
I mean really, anyone who quotes The Atlantic or WaPo is just asking to have their strawmen torched.
John F Kennedy suffered debilitating back pain
Aye, and Addison’s Disease plus hypothyroidism. Though perhaps neither mattered as much as his being a vile fellow.
Has any president been sentimentalised as much as that shit? Not even Lincoln and Jefferson I suspect.
Biden had health issues? Shirley not? I watched CNN, MSNBC and read the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and they all said Joe was “as sharp as a tack”……
Trump has polio.
Did I read that right?
“How many fools does it take to make up a public?” — Chamfort
[citation needed]
83.7% of statistics on the internet are made up.
They took a poll on the subject.
After four years of not doing polls on Biden’s cognitive decline.
It’s the media bias of choosing what to cover and what not to cover.
Surveys say Trump has medical problems. He must come clean about these afflictions RIGHT NOW.
Note that the naughty presidents were
D-FDR
D-JFK
D-sock puppet Biden.
How dare a Republican hide his problems!
Don’t forget Woodrow Wilson – so incapacitated that his wife and his doctor ran the federal government for a year or so.
I blame Wilson for WWII. He sold out his principals at Versailles for American lenders*, pinning war blame on Germany. Leaving it ripe for a hothead Austrian corporal.
*France, Britain: “Without German reparations, we can’t repay our war debts to America.”
After a polio diagnosis that caused paralysis of his lower body,
Wow. There’s a reason not not to go to the doctor. You might get diagnosed.