Of course there are a lot of stories making the rounds about President Trump. So, this may not be true. But, supposedly, he just about lives on fast food. That’s lots of greasy fatty burgers, drowned in fatty sauce, with fries and soda. The story is he’s afraid of being poisoned. (There is a certain irony there.)
He says he only sleeps four hours a night.
He’s past 70.
He announced on the Fourth of July that colonial militias took over airports, which is strange even for him.
His doctor has assured us that he’s in great shape, but this is the Trump administration. The people who gave us “alternative facts”.
It is possible that President Trump has had a small stroke. It is possible he may have more. It is possible that he may not live to see 2021. Or if he does, he will be so severely disabled he won’t even be able to tweet anymore.
Which is a worry for a whole list of reasons.
It is possible that his staff and supporters may be concealing the fact that his mind is going, until he is re elected, to protect their interests.
Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke during his second term, and, for several months, his wife Edith ran the country.
Ronald Reagan was, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease by the end of his second term. Everybody pretended he wasn’t. But it was kind of obvious.
So, we could end up with a puppet president, or with president Mike Pence. Neither strikes me as a good option.
If he dies in office, his followers, most of whom are great believers in conspiracy theories, are going to raise all kinds of Hell.
So, yeah, I’m kind of worried. I think maybe we all should be. I don’t see a good ending to this.