My children are still staggering for the cosmic injustice that Chick-Fil-A closes Sundays, so it is not surprising that, after a few days free of Trump, the private Americans of dopamine were stirring their next solution of all the limits of the true economy of the care of the entertaining entertainment economy of entertaining indignation.
In case you have lost it, President Trump recently disappeared from public hearing for almost a week, which results in social networks flooding with hashtags declaring #Triumph.
Eventually resurfaced, but that did not answer the obvious question: why does a man who yearn for the way in which most of us yearn for oxygen? Six consecutive days (!) Without an important public event?
Signal speculation – heart attack, mini strokeAlien kidnapping. The truth is out there. We are ready to believe you.
To be fair with conspiracy theorists, Trump is not exactly the image of health. At 79, he is the The oldest president has ever sworn the position. His food pyramid apparently consists of French fries from McDonald's and Diet Coke. And if you are thinking that he will only work with the additional calories running from wind and making burpees, Trump once said that Exercise (not be golf) Saps energy.
It may not be surprising, then, that he has been limbing with swollen ankles as hot dogs with microwave and a mysterious bruise in his hand who tries to cover in makeup.
The doctors assured us this summer that swelling is the result of a manageable condition called “chronic venous insufficiency”, and bruises are due to aspirin and the hand of the hand with people, a beautiful theory, except that Trump has also been photographed with bruises in your left hand.
Of course, conspiracy theories generally require a bit of help from our so -called friends. In this circus he wandered JD Vance, who added a lighter liquid to the rumor factory telling USA Today what it was “Ready to assume the role of commander in chief“In case of a” terrible tragedy. “
Comforting, JD. Really stabilizing the ship.
Then came a call Trump's test photo with former NFL coach Jon Gruden. The problem? The photo was thought to have a weekAt least, according to the “weekend in Bernie”.
So Trump finally did what he always does: he shot a triumphant social publication that proclaimed: “I never felt better in my life. “Which, if you have ever had an uncle who smokes in the reds of Marlboro and cold her own Twinkies, is precisely the pronounced sentence before the EMTs find it in their bathroom next to an empty KFC cube.
When finally resurfaced in person, Trump took a page from his own crisis management plays book by Calling speculation “false news” And saying this kind of thing is why “the media have such little credibility.”
However, the reality is that these rumors were not cooked by the New York Times or the others in the main media. They extended online, courtesy of conspiracy theorists, amateur detectives and people whose levels of Schadenfreude are out of the lists.
Once again, however, it is difficult to blame them for refusing to ignore the obvious. Trump is not the same man who was in 2016. Even then, his cadence seemed comically strange and discursive. Today, his voice is stricter, his slowest march, his most swollen eyes. In addition, there is no Joe Biden to be sprinkled compared.
And do not make mistakes, as we learned as recently as (checks notes) last yearThe health of a president is important.
Think of Biden in that horrible debate. Or, if you prefer no, think of Yalta, or Woodrow Wilson, whose wife basically directed the country after suffering a stroke. (If Trump begins to sign social publications with “Be the bestEveryone will know that we have entered the territory of Edith Wilson).
This means that there are many reasons to be alarmed about Trump's health. Life is fragile (I'm old enough to remember when He almost loses a president for a pretzel.
Even so, I cannot avoid suspecting that much of speculation is the result of the transmission of wishes of Trump's frustrated enemies that cling to some, although macabre, “Deus Ex Machina” to solve their political problems.
If you think Trump is a budding authoritarian, but one whose movement is so driven by personality that he cannot survive him, then his health can be the only real control of his power. Congress will certainly not control it.
But while it is possible that the mortality table achieves what elections could not, put all its actions in a hamburger with cheese loaded with cholesterol to save democracy is the political equivalent of buying lottery tickets for retirement.
Strong men sometimes cling to life long after expiration. They tend to survive their enemies and doctors long after they have overcome their welcome.
So, although it is not crazy to suspect that the White House is hiding something with respect to Trump's health, if the Democrats have the accumulation of plaque to do what they cannot or may not do at the polls, they could be in a long and cold winter.
Matt K. Lewis is the author of “Dirty rich politicians” and “Too dumb to fail. “
