Physically, What is Keeping Trump Up?

[Daleuhlmann]

Even though I utterly loathe Donald Trump, I would never wish ill will on him or anybody else, because I believe in bad karma. However, given his fast food and sodium-high diet, lack of exercise (sorry, golfers, who may argue otherwise), clinical obesity, high blood pressure, clear signs of dementia, lack of sleep, I'm surprised this 78-year-old hasn't had a heart attack or a stroke yet--although we have never been told the reason for his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center during his first term, although he seems to have been dragging one foot ever since. Here's my theory: the man obviously has no conscience or sense of guilt, and therefore, perhaps, may not suffer from the added stress that can increase the types of health risks that I''ve mentioned. Instead, he seems to have the kind of personality that gives OTHERS heart attacks and strokes.

[Ocelot II]

1. Maybe he's a zombie.

Or a draugr. In Norse mythology these are a corporeal undead creatures - revenants or reanimated corpses. Any mean, nasty, or greedy person can become a draugr. "The draugr's motivation was primarily envy and greed. Greed causes it to attack any would-be grave robbers viciously, but the draugr also expresses an innate envy of the living stemming from a longing for the things of life which it once had. They also exhibit an immense and nearly insatiable appetite." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr. It fits, I think.

[3catwoman3]

2. It certainly does seem that he is way overde...

...for his dirt nap.

[Drum]

3. A pair of 2" wedges under his heels, and little else.

[jls4561]

4. I'm not sure, but whatever it is is probably lurking in the basement of

Merde-a-Lardo. It’s probably something he purchased from Satan and never finished paying off. If we can find this thing and destroy it, we can then proceed to purge the many evils inflicted upon the land.

Currently, experts on such things speculate that like the Horcruxes in Harry Potter, there may be several such objects in existence, making the task more difficult.

Said experts also suggest that the most easily identifiable object currently embodying the evil 😈 may be Roger Stone.

[WarGamer]

5. It's all genetics...

I've known healthy and fit 55 year olds pass away early... and people with terrible diets with great blood work.

Having said that... not sure if I've EVER seen a fat 85 year old.

[FSogol]

34. If you totally swallow the excuses from his goofy amphetamine doctor!

Trumpy's genetics are shitty, just look at the sphincter-like mouths on his spawn.

[WarGamer]

42. When I think back to folks that I was curious about their longevity, lol...

Rush Limbaugh spoke extensively about his own health.

It's complete BS but I've heard this before. He believed in some sort of "conservation of energy" so he rarely exercised other than golf...

He claimed that his blood numbers were perfect...

I can only assume he packed away an unhealthy diet...

And in the end it was the cigars that "got him".

Fucker should have been decent enough to film a PSA on his death bed urging others not to smoke.

[Irish_Dem]

6. The people around a narcissistic psychopath get sick, die, or suffer trauma.

The psychopath has no guilt, shame or embarrassment, so they don't even get stressed.
The only time they get stressed is when they don't get their way.

[Daleuhlmann]

20. Right on, Irish Dem!

Makes sense to me, Irish Dem! Of course, there is that old saying, "Only the good die young."

[PJMcK]

7. I'm perplexed, too

Trump is the walking exhibit of poor health, bad diet, lack of anger management skills, abdication of exercise, inability to think critically and poor education. He might have keeled over long ago but for some mysterious force that has kept him alive.

An aside about golf, however. Trump does not play golf. He does something on a golf course but it isn't golf. He never practices. He plays out of turn. He has no regard for his playing partners. He cheats. He doesn't finish each hole, (he "rakes in" his putts which is illegal and often the ball doesn't even go in the hole!). He's overbearing according to various reports; golfers need to be circumspect because it's as much a mental game as a physical sport. He doesn't walk the course and golf was originally designed for the walk. He drives a souped-up golf cart that goes too fast and he drives on the greens (a major no-no!).

My friends and I play by the rules. It's what makes the game so challenging and fun! Our scores, whether good or bad, have significance and we post them honestly to calculate our respective handicaps. It's a game of honor and when we see deliberate cheating, it subtracts from the experience.

We walk the course and even though we're all over 60, some of us even carry our golf bags. Consider a 15 lbs. bag of gear that you're carrying up and down hills while walking 4+ miles on an 18-hole course. Then you have to make careful precision shots time and again. The mental challenges are severe and to be able to control your emotions and physical state is very difficult. Still, it's a wonderful workout and the experience in the outdoors is exhilarating.

The camaraderie is another wonderful aspect of the game. On the weekend, you might be playing with your friends at your favorite course, Or you might be paired up with three strangers on some public course. During the round, you'll share a remarkably intimate experience with your playing partners gaining insight into their personalities from their behavior on the course. No one can hide their true personalities out there!

But to your point, I wonder every day if this is the day for Trump. It would be somewhat poetic if he met his fate on a golf course.

[allegorical oracle]

12. It would be justice if his final collapse was atop Ivana's burial plot at the first tee. Perhaps

a bystander would yell, "FORE".

[PJMcK]

17. Since Trump is the anti-christ...

... perhaps he'd demand a mulligan.

(wink)

[allegorical oracle]

36. Well, was thinking that hell might like a head's-up that he was arriving....

[Daleuhlmann]

21. But Is It Golf?

Thank you for your thoughtful reply! I hadn't meant to imply that golf, as it was meant to be played, is not a challenging physical and mental activity. it most certainly is, but not, as you had said, the way Trump plays it!

[wishstar]

8. It's been reported that the Walter Reed visit was for a colonoscopy

So seems that he keeps up with health screenings and to counter his diet and reported HBP, he has been on medications to keep his cholesterol and BP under control for many years. As we saw in his Walter Reed visit when he got Covid in 2020, his doctors will do everything medically possible to prop him up as they have for Dick Cheney- much more care than an average person would receive.

[Daleuhlmann]

23. Preferential Treatment

You are so right, wishtar, about the "celebrity treatment" that both Trump and Giuliani had gotten for Covid. Both had been given expensive medical "cocktails" of effective drugs that the average American patient could not have afforded.

[TexasTowelie]

28. That could make sense.

I could see where Trump complained to a physician that he was having incontinence, thus a referral for a colonoscopy would be ordered.

[Mz Pip]

9. Oscar Wilde's classic

The Picture of Dorian Gray comes to mind.

[niyad]

26. Been thinking that since 2015. I want to see see that picture!

[Dave Bowman]

31. Here's how he really looks:

[niyad]

39. That is far better than I imagined.

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[tanyev]

10. He thrives on hatred, spite and vindictiveness.

[sop]

11. I don't believe in karma, so allow me to wish Trump all the ills in the world.

If karma was real, something terrible would have already happened to him.

[meadowlander]

13. All the fake tanning spray has ossified into an orange exoskeleton.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. A failure of his health serves the greater good, and we don't know he hasn't had a stroke or MI.

He’s undergone some event, clearly, at some point that caused his physicians to put him on blood thinners in my opinion. This photo was taken in 2024, and the bruising on his right hand positively screams, blood thinners. I would guess an MI or TIA, possibly with or following a bout or bouts with covid. Could have been any time. We wouldn’t know.




I want him to suffer a stroke that obliterates his physical appearance and dignity, but leaves his cognition intact. Because his disability and misfortune would be gift to the world, I have no moral qualms about wishing for it. I’m good with it. I’ve personally seen way too much savagery visited upon the innocent and blameless to believe in any gods or karma, because it would require a cruel and twisted god who is not almighty in the slightest. I find none of it impressive or worthy of admiration, let alone worship..

What’s keeping him up? Genetics, and a quality of medical care not available to you or me at any price. It’s not impossible or even implausible, but we will indeed be lucky if his health disables him in the next 4 years.

[mnhtnbb]

38. I would guess he's had Covid several times

and could be dealing with symptoms of long Covid. All would be denied. But he could be ripe for one serious infection or event to be the end.

[RandiFan1290]

15. Evil lingers. nt

[BannonsLiver]

16. It should be obvious by now he is the antichrist. Check under his scalp and you'll see three 6's.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. The mark is invisible, thanks to his Bill Gates nanochip hologram generator

compliments of the first round of Covid vaccines. At least I assume so, I mean, that’s how I got mine.

[Blue Full Moon]

19. Hate

[mr715]

22. Souls of the damned

[HowSpecialIsThis]

24. Anger sustains him?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Welcome to DU

[Jack Valentino]

25. Same as saved him from assassination--- The Hand of SATAN.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

[Dave Bowman]

27. A bigly dose of meth, the nazis' drug of choice.

[C0RI0LANUS]

29. JD and Usha Vance are wondering the same thing.

[RockRaven]

30. Probably prescription amphetamines, which work until they don't.

[evemac]

32. He made a deal with the devil

A long, long time ago.

[CentralMass]

33. Trumps father passed at 94 and his mother passed at 88. It would seem that there is some longevity in the gene pool.

[Hugin]

35. Vitriol and shellac...

Rumor has it.

[Meowmee]

37. Maybe not always true

But “only the good die young”, and he gets the best hc in the world for FREE.

[Kid Berwyn]

40. What NAZIs use.

Pervitin really puts the "perv" in pervert.

[GoCubsGo]

41. Whatever drugs Dr. Ronnie is dishing out.

He's probably dipping into his sons' cocaine stash, as well. And, I HIGHLY doubt that he never had a stroke or some other cardiovascular episode. Let's not forget that weekend trip to Walter Reed during his first term, that he tried to pass off as "getting a head-start on his annual physical."