Making one’s livelihood by keeping a close eye on “Xitter” and breaking news has made it impossible, of late, to avoid the increasingly valid questions about Trump’s health. Now, to be sure, there have been no hard reports from the White House, or even rumors published by reliable sources on background, every question beyond the obvious bruising and swollen ankles is speculation based on Trump’s “disappearance” over the last week (reportedly only seen in one highly concerning photo from Saturday, on the way to the golf course). It is unusual, and tweets such as the one below are popping up everywhere despite the fact that (Fair warning) this tweet below is not substantiated in anything – I use it only as an example of what is blanketing “X” – we will get to Trump’s actual tweet below this example.

There is no substantiated report that Melania was seen at Walter Reed. And one shouldn’t put too much stock in anything about anyone being “quiet” over the last holiday weekend of the summer.

But there is one undeniably “weird” thing out there now, and it may say more about Trump’s health than anything else. His Truth Social feed put out a tweet this morning that doesn’t sound like true Trump at all. It is a little too grammatically correct. It is a little too “in the weeds,” and just a tiny bit too balanced and nuanced to match what we’ve come to expect from Trump’s feed. The generally insightful Xitter presence Angry Staffer sets out the peculiarity:

Now, to be sure, powerful people, whether CEOs, Senators, or definitely presidents, have staff that put out statements all the time – that would be entirely normal. But over the years, it sure seems as though Trump retains full control over every word that comes from his feed, whether it was on Twitter or now on Truth Social. So let’s break this down just a bit:

It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW.

It is not like Trump at all to lay out both sides of an argument. It would be more normal if he just said that they are ripping apart the CDC, and he wants answers. It is unusual for Trump to care about what anyone thinks if they don’t align with his own interests.

I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not??? They go off to the next “hunt” and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the Drug Companies Covid work. They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don’t seem to be showing them to many others.

What? This is way too complicated and in the weeds for a normal Trump tweet. And “extraordinary”? That is a big word for a man with a famously limited vocabulary. What is with the “don’t seem to be showing them to many others” – Trump is not into gray areas. This is far more nuanced than we might normally expect.

I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!! I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as “BRILLIANT” as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why??? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter! President DJT

I am not buying it, either. It is true that Operation Warp Speed was the biggest shining light of Trump’s first administration – though they did little more than simply get out of the way; still, that was the imperative, and the vaccine did work, just ask any hospitalist who worked during that period. It became a disease of the unvaccinated. So there is no doubt that Operation Warp Speed does represent one of the precious few good outcomes of his first administration. But Trump is the type to either say it was brilliant, or – more likely, not address the controversy at all, afraid of alienating his Q-Anon constituency. It would be far more normal to just bash heads and tell them to work it out.

To get back to Trump’s health, it wouldn’t be unusual for someone in his office to assign a task, such as an announcement, but it is unusual to believe that he allows them access to his feed to do so. So, if this tweet was assigned, it is fair to ask why. It doesn’t seem to be the most pressing issue of the day, and it is possible that the tweet was put out simply to put something out, to make it appear that he is engaged, angry, and on top of things.

Perhaps he is. But far from quelling any rumors, this tweet – when read carefully, actually enflames them. This is odd. This is out of the ordinary. And it is happening when Trump has been oddly missing for the last six days, no appearances (Save one, one that looked terrible, Saturday morning, when he reportedly went to the golf club, but no report on whether he actually golfed). As for Melania being at Walter Reed, that would seem to be something that is hard to hide, and I am not putting any faith in it, nor do I think that silence from the kids over a holiday weekend means all that much. But do expect to see increasing speculation as Trump’s absence continues. There are countless other tweets speculating about Trump’s diminishing health.

UPDATE: We NOW have a picture supposedly from today and a second tweet that absolutely does not sound like him – leaving people asking more questions: First the tweet:

That doesn’t sound like him, either – for all the reasons we examined in the first tweet. Next, we have a picture that Grok says is from today. He looks terrible, and people are wondering why every picture of late shows him with a gaping mouth:

And yet an enhanced version of the same picture does show some very concerning features. Also, why was the picture so blurry in the first place? I ask because I simply don’t know if it was taken at long range and the blurriness is normal, or whether it was purposefully blurred. Either way, the “enhanced” image really does look concerning:

Intriguingly, we have another picture that was supposedly put out by official sources, stating that it is Trump today at his Virginia golf club, but many are noting that the mirror image is off, and Grok says that it could be from many periods prior to today:

And the Grok answer:

 

To be honest, I really don’t know about the picture in the golf club as being from today. Grok and several news outlets have reported that the one with Trump getting in the car is from today (Open mouth gape). I apologize for the ambiguity, but it really does feed into the whole speculation about whether the White House is covering a fairly serious health issue. Perhaps he just isn’t feeling well. Someone noted that Trump really hasn’t been the same since he came back from Alaska. Talk about speculation. But there it is.

Congress is back this coming week. We can at least expect to “see” Trump during the week and assess how he looks then. If we don’t, well – then the White House will definitely have some explaining to do. One other thing we know from Trump’s first administration, when Trump himself got COVID, they were not afraid to hide his illness. He was far sicker than the reports sent out to the media, indeed, almost intubated and put on a ventilator.

So, in the same way that we cannot trust the average tweet speculating on how ill he might be, we damn sure cannot place much trust in transparency from the White House, either.

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6 COMMENTS

  2. I doubt he will remain silent on September 3, when the Epstein survivors testify to congress. I’m pretty sure that will trigger a response from him.

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    • If he can make a semi-coherent appearance, he will. I for one very much appreciate as his only possible positive contribution his absence.

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  3. It appears that all’s mum, all’s quiet on the Trump front, along with the glaring absence of the usual: the ugly grandiose posturing; unscripted off-topic confabulations; narcissistic pathologic bragging; the paranoia; conspiracy theories; lying; bullying; reptilian exploitive vengeance; the demonisation of opponents, the minorities, the unfortunates and the dispossessed etc., … then again, this apparent absence, this period of unexplained silence, is seemingly affirmed by lack of public hackneyed acts of bravado and confabulated oratory, is in itself a projection of a possible declining actual health and worsening health status – it’s gone beyond the acquired, it appears it’s now entering in a pathophysiological destructive tail-spin, that’s become ever so hard to hide, perhaps. It’s usually easy to get the lie through megaphoned verbal bollox, where as of late, it’s become the opposite; it’s a pathological involuntary quietness that’s projecting the ongoing lie. A weekend whip about on a golf cart is just a sham act on a mobility aid, a con, it’s fair to think.

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  5. Maybe “Melanie” tried to slip up there to file DNR (Do No Resuscitate) paperwork. Maybe got someone to give her access to the infamous autopen to get Don-Old’s signature on it. She (and Barron) could of course put their own signatures on as “witnesses” but still it’s the kind of thing that would need to be personally give to the top brass to file. I can see her trying to hide behind a hat and huge sunglasses telling the top-dog at Walter Reed (it will always be Bethesda to me) Vee must be much dee-screet. Which why I here do-eeng this bee-cause it get noticed if Donald come here.”

    Well, it seems more and more like he’s running on fumes. In commercial aircraft it’s virtually never one thing that causes a crash. A series of events takes place and in too fast a manner and even some unusual combinations that had as separate events been trained for that overwhelm the pilot’s ability to recover. It’s called an Event Cascade. And often when NTSB goes back through the history of the aircraft leading up to the fatal event they find conditions (both airline procedures and training) and maint. issues that made an Event Cascade leading to a failure in flight from which even great pilots can’t recover.

    That could very well be where Trump is with his health. Even with access to the best medical care in the world he clearly doesn’t follow what his competent doctors want him to do. Change his diet. Get on and keep a regular (as much as possible for a President) sleep/rest schedule. Exercise as in actual exercise. WALKING even just a few holes (to start) of a round of golf and working his way up to walking nine holes, and some time on an exercise bike days when he isn’t golfing) would help a lot.

    But his bad habits have caught up to him. Lord knows what meds he’s on and conditions he has we don’t know about. He’s physically held together with so old it’s rotting duct tape, frayed twine and rusted to the breaking point bailing wire. One serious thing going wrong that would be treatable in a typical, healthy for his age person will overwhelm even the best doctors at Walter Reed. They barely got him through Covid and that was five years ago. He’s in far worse shape physically now.

    He DOES have a chance that with some luck (nothing going wrong) and quickly implementing some changes to last for a while. I think he’s too arrogant and will continue to ignore the please of doctors and aides to make some much needed changes.

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