Staggering And Limping Trump Looks Like He Is Living On Borrowed Time
The harsh shining spotlight of the presidency reveals all, even those things that the people around a president try to hide. One of those revealing moments happened to Donald Trump today.
Trump’s decline might be taken more in stride if Republicans could at least accept the reality that the president and leader of their party appears to be falling apart before the nation’s eyes.
It would be refreshing if an administration could admit that the president is old and not what he used to be.
The knee-jerk reaction from presidential administrations for as long as the modern presidency has existed has been to gaslight the American people and say that everything is fine.
Until the Internet age, the plan of not being honest with the American people about a president’s health was effective. Newspapers and radio didn’t talk about the president’s health, and television, without 24/7 cable news, kept the president’s health secrets.
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The Internet age has transformed how often people see a president and made it almost impossible for any president to hide their health.
Donald Trump has been in decline, according to those who served in his first administration, since about 2018. Basically, Trump started to fall apart shortly after he was elected president the first time.
When the bizarro world 2024 election ended up sending Trump back to the White House for a second time, the result seems to be a president in full-blown decline.
Trump’s mental decline doesn’t get enough attention, but on Tuesday the country got a look at the physical state of this president.
