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Daleuhlmann

(618 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:08 PM Jan 2025

Physically, What is Keeping Trump Up?

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.

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Physically, What is Keeping Trump Up? (Original Post) Daleuhlmann Jan 2025 OP
Maybe he's a zombie. Ocelot II Jan 2025 #1
It certainly does seem that he is way overde... 3catwoman3 Jan 2025 #2
A pair of 2" wedges under his heels, and little else. Drum Jan 2025 #3
I'm not sure, but whatever it is is probably lurking in the basement of jls4561 Jan 2025 #4
It's all genetics... WarGamer Jan 2025 #5
If you totally swallow the excuses from his goofy amphetamine doctor! FSogol Jan 2025 #34
When I think back to folks that I was curious about their longevity, lol... WarGamer Jan 2025 #42
The people around a narcissistic psychopath get sick, die, or suffer trauma. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #6
Right on, Irish Dem! Daleuhlmann Jan 2025 #20
I'm perplexed, too PJMcK Jan 2025 #7
It would be justice if his final collapse was atop Ivana's burial plot at the first tee. Perhaps allegorical oracle Jan 2025 #12
Since Trump is the anti-christ... PJMcK Jan 2025 #17
Well, was thinking that hell might like a head's-up that he was arriving.... allegorical oracle Jan 2025 #36
But Is It Golf? Daleuhlmann Jan 2025 #21
It's been reported that the Walter Reed visit was for a colonoscopy wishstar Jan 2025 #8
Preferential Treatment Daleuhlmann Jan 2025 #23
That could make sense. TexasTowelie Jan 2025 #28
Oscar Wilde's classic Mz Pip Jan 2025 #9
Been thinking that since 2015. I want to see see that picture! niyad Jan 2025 #26
Here's how he really looks: Dave Bowman Jan 2025 #31
That is far better than I imagined. niyad Jan 2025 #39
He thrives on hatred, spite and vindictiveness. tanyev Jan 2025 #10
I don't believe in karma, so allow me to wish Trump all the ills in the world. sop Jan 2025 #11
All the fake tanning spray has ossified into an orange exoskeleton. meadowlander Jan 2025 #13
A failure of his health serves the greater good, and we don't know he hasn't had a stroke or MI. Maru Kitteh Jan 2025 #14
I would guess he's had Covid several times mnhtnbb Jan 2025 #38
Evil lingers. nt RandiFan1290 Jan 2025 #15
It should be obvious by now he is the antichrist. Check under his scalp and you'll see three 6's. BannonsLiver Jan 2025 #16
The mark is invisible, thanks to his Bill Gates nanochip hologram generator Maru Kitteh Jan 2025 #18
Hate Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #19
Souls of the damned mr715 Jan 2025 #22
Anger sustains him? HowSpecialIsThis Jan 2025 #24
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2025 #43
Same as saved him from assassination--- The Hand of SATAN. Jack Valentino Jan 2025 #25
A bigly dose of meth, the nazis' drug of choice. Dave Bowman Jan 2025 #27
JD and Usha Vance are wondering the same thing. C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 #29
Probably prescription amphetamines, which work until they don't. RockRaven Jan 2025 #30
He made a deal with the devil evemac Jan 2025 #32
Trumps father passed at 94 and his mother passed at 88. It would seem that there is some longevity in the gene pool. CentralMass Jan 2025 #33
Vitriol and shellac... Hugin Jan 2025 #35
Maybe not always true Meowmee Jan 2025 #37
What NAZIs use. Kid Berwyn Jan 2025 #40
Whatever drugs Dr. Ronnie is dishing out. GoCubsGo Jan 2025 #41

Ocelot II

(126,251 posts)
1. Maybe he's a zombie.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jan 2025

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.

jls4561

(2,514 posts)
4. I'm not sure, but whatever it is is probably lurking in the basement of
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:21 PM
Jan 2025

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

(17,589 posts)
5. It's all genetics...
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:24 PM
Jan 2025

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

(47,421 posts)
34. If you totally swallow the excuses from his goofy amphetamine doctor!
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:52 AM
Jan 2025


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

WarGamer

(17,589 posts)
42. When I think back to folks that I was curious about their longevity, lol...
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 01:39 PM
Jan 2025

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

(72,736 posts)
6. The people around a narcissistic psychopath get sick, die, or suffer trauma.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:25 PM
Jan 2025

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

(618 posts)
20. Right on, Irish Dem!
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 11:56 PM
Jan 2025

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

PJMcK

(23,974 posts)
7. I'm perplexed, too
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jan 2025

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

(5,424 posts)
12. It would be justice if his final collapse was atop Ivana's burial plot at the first tee. Perhaps
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:56 PM
Jan 2025

a bystander would yell, "FORE".

 

Daleuhlmann

(618 posts)
21. But Is It Golf?
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 12:04 AM
Jan 2025

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

(5,744 posts)
8. It's been reported that the Walter Reed visit was for a colonoscopy
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:37 PM
Jan 2025

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

(618 posts)
23. Preferential Treatment
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 12:13 AM
Jan 2025

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

(122,077 posts)
28. That could make sense.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:21 AM
Jan 2025

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

sop

(15,318 posts)
11. I don't believe in karma, so allow me to wish Trump all the ills in the world.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:48 PM
Jan 2025

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

Maru Kitteh

(30,414 posts)
14. A failure of his health serves the greater good, and we don't know he hasn't had a stroke or MI.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 08:03 PM
Jan 2025

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

(32,666 posts)
38. I would guess he's had Covid several times
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:16 AM
Jan 2025

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.

BannonsLiver

(19,440 posts)
16. It should be obvious by now he is the antichrist. Check under his scalp and you'll see three 6's.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jan 2025

Maru Kitteh

(30,414 posts)
18. The mark is invisible, thanks to his Bill Gates nanochip hologram generator
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 10:08 PM
Jan 2025

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

Jack Valentino

(2,881 posts)
25. Same as saved him from assassination--- The Hand of SATAN.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:07 AM
Jan 2025

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

CentralMass

(16,359 posts)
33. Trumps father passed at 94 and his mother passed at 88. It would seem that there is some longevity in the gene pool.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 03:45 AM
Jan 2025

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
37. Maybe not always true
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:08 AM
Jan 2025

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

GoCubsGo

(34,107 posts)
41. Whatever drugs Dr. Ronnie is dishing out.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:44 AM
Jan 2025

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."

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