You would be plenty worried if you had a patient like the one you’re about to read about. What to do, hypothetically speaking, if you had a 79-year-old patient, who self-identified as weighing 239 lbs. and being 6’3″ — when the reality is that his wife (in heels) is 5’11” and she usually is a couple of inches taller than him in photos? And that’s the least of it. That’s merely for openers. Where it gets really crazy is that said patient of yours (traveling alone and not with the aforementioned wife) spews out medical advice into cyberspace at 4:00 a.m. — before going down the stairs of his plane to gyrate with native dancers, who know what they’re doing but they haven’t the slightest clue what he’s doing. Nor does he. Yes, you know exactly who we’re talking about and we haven’t said his name, right?
— Brown Eyed Susan (@smc429) October 27, 2025
There’s a tag on the Dr. Knowlittle picture, “He can talk to the idiots.” He can and does. I wonder if we’ll ever get a reliable stat on how many people died from COVID because of the machinations of Trump and Fox News (and others) in portraying it as a hoax? Or, how many people poisoned themselves drinking aquarium cleaner cocktails, believing that it would cure COVID? And if you find out how many people actually put infrared light bulbs up their anal cavity, please…just keep that one to yourself. If MAGA stands for Make America Goofy Anon, then yes, we have seen that manifest. In spades and in shovels we have seen that manifest.
In all seriousness, what kind of a lunatic gives medical advice (or legal or auto repair, for that matter) at 4:00 a.m.? And especially when they have no expertise in that area? The obvious take is that Trump was either talking on the phone with RFK, Jr., or he had some interaction with that aspect of his administration and decided that a missive, half policy half piffle, from His Lordship the president, would aid the common weal. No. All it did was serve as a red flag of his impending — ir not imminent — crack up.
And then Trump got off his plane a little while later and did his now-signature ludicrous gyrations, the activity he refers to as “dancing.”
Trump has zero business conveying medical advice. I do not claim to know the particulars of it because I’m sure that this is a case of first impression. But nobody without a medical license can get on social media or the public airwaves and start dispensing medical advice without the benefit of an M.D.
Politics in this country is the only profession where you don’t have to have an actual professional degree, although that said, a great many politicians are lawyers. It does help to have studied law if your chosen path is to make the law.
Arguably a good business person, or even a B-movie actor with the gift of gab, can be an effective politician. I’ll still take somebody who sweated through first year midterms all the way to the last set of exams in law school. At least that person demonstrated the intellectual curiosity and dedication to learn how our law works. Anybody who hasn’t put in that effort (yes, Lauren Boebert, you’re exactly who I had in mind) is an arrogant poseur. But nobody in politics is less competent and more adequate than Donald Trump.
“…more adequate than Donald Trump.”? I think you mean “more INadequate”. But, we all know what you meant.
I’d have to go back and comb it for that phrase. I’m grateful if people understood it anyhow.
Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC calls Trump “the stupidist president in the history of our country.”