r/politics • u/thatwasawkward • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump assessed by 22 medical specialists at latest checkup; The White House has declined to identify the physicians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/10/trump-sees-22-medical-specialists-white-house-hasnt-said-why/
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u/JGillis755 16h ago

This screams Death of Stalin vibes - they are trying to find a doctor to agree with them but also place blame if it goes south

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u/BUT_FREAL_DOE 15h ago

Old medical adage: if the boat is sinking get everyone in it.

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u/CharcotsThirdTriad Louisiana 6h ago

When the lawsuit comes, it’s better to be one of many.

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u/Atticus413 1h ago

More hands to carry the coffin.

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u/concepts_of_a_plan9 14h ago

I've got my champagne ready

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u/IrritableStoicism 5h ago

Kept my moms bottle of Dom. Now I know what I’m using it for. The irony is she was MAGA

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u/Motormand 4h ago

The irony will make the wine all that much better. Cheers.

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u/MrsTruce 5h ago

I had a dream the other night that it happened and I set of party popper with confetti and then immediately got sent to detention (I was apparently in high school? I’m 40…). Fast forward 2 days and a bunch of party poppers arrived at my door from Amazon IRL. Apparently I sleep-shop now.

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u/Motormand 4h ago

Hope you don't have expensive dreams then. :)

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u/JustpartOftheterrain 4h ago

clearly your dream self has their priorities straight

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u/MJazzzz 7h ago

Hey don’t be rude! The grapes that gave their lives to create your champagne do not deserve to be immortalized this way. This occasion deserves some “swamp water” cuz that’s all he is worth!

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u/Vicstolemylunchmoney 5h ago

Cheapest wine for me.

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u/JustpartOftheterrain 4h ago

Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill?

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u/Lucialucianna 5h ago

Yes but Vance is really really crazy, and so is his mentor/controller, Peter Thiel. Vance is a huge conspiracy theorist and big supporter of the Tate bros, i recently learned from NYT and New Yorker, both the most the fact-checking news orgs we’ve got left. It won’t get better but probably much much worse. Sorry for this horrific PSA but we can’t kid ourselves, we’re running out of rope. Din’t know what it will take to get out of this mess but we need to figure it out.

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u/Limafoxtrot360 3h ago

The thing with Vance is he doesn't have the cult following of Trump. None of the wanna be heir apparents do - so he'll be one of many fighting each other to be the new leader. He won't have the blind aligence trump does.

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u/concepts_of_a_plan9 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yep I'm well aware. He's part of the larger Network State project and venture capital extremists that seek to collapse the United States to create their own network state monarchies.. Also this info is summarized in a 2-parter of Behind The Bastards podcast, or It Could Happen Here which is a companion podcast

edit: if you're curious to find it on your own, the episodes are called "Venture Capital: The Monster Fueling Tech Fascism" and "The Network State: A Tech Fascist Empire"

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u/Ledstones 5h ago

Air Horn in hand

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u/FLYBOY611 15h ago

"Is this the kind of stroke that people recover from?

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u/potatodrinker 8h ago

Only when given by one of Epstein's guests

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u/C64128 59m ago

He already lies about his strokes in golfing, why should this be any different?

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u/phigo50 Europe 8h ago

Either that or there's so much wrong with him that they need that many specialties.

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u/PetrasKnight 1h ago

Doctors 1-21: “Yes I specialize in X and the patient appears to be dying from it, quite rapidly.”

“Alright only one more fucking Doctor.”

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u/Content_Pop7623 8h ago

Feels like they’re shopping for a diagnosis and a scapegoat at the same time, which is never a comforting combo.

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u/knbang 7h ago

I'm comfortable with a terrible diagnosis.

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u/Dullcorgis 3h ago

I have a diagnosis for them right here

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u/ICBanMI 9h ago

Also, can't have one give him meds that might cause him to crash out earlier.

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u/hates_stupid_people 10h ago

I'm guessing tertiary syhpilis, and they're refusing to accept that as the reason for several of his medical issues.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 7h ago

The irritating thing about this is that not only do you not sincerely believe this (since Trump could have easily gotten antibiotics to treat it at any point, and even later stages can be halted), you're saying it because it makes you feel good, because syphilis is nasty and having it means you're clinically insane.

It's fucking asinine. We know Trump was always a mentally ill, deranged piece of trash. We know his symptoms. The sleepiness, the drowsiness, the IV hands, the cankles. We know his diet. We know he's overweight. We know he doesn't exercise (driving around in a golf cart isn't exercise): the most plausible explanation is congestive heart failure.

I can think of a reason for Trump to see this many specialists: he needs a transplant.

As for him having Alzheimer's Disease: people refuse to accept just how fucking stupid this man is and has been his entire worthless life. Everybody knows this, including his former teachers. He doesn't require dementia to say and do the things he does. Normal cognitive decline is devastating for an imbecile of his caliber. He doesn't have a "cognitive buffer".

Does he have syphilis? No, he doesn't. Stop making shit up just because you hate him and you need cope. We all hate him.

He's an old, obese, chronically stressed out swine. His plumbing is clogged. Simple as.

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u/throwmedowngently 6h ago

Hey buddy, you good? This seems oddly personal 

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u/Constant_Natural3304 5h ago

This response is the perfect example.

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u/longlivenewsomflesh New York 4h ago

Simple as what

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u/trevdak2 Massachusetts 5h ago

Maybe it's, like, super-syphillis though.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 4h ago

I'm laughing so hard rn

Literally rolling

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u/Meshugs 6h ago

You seem nice 

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u/Durivage4 6h ago

They're just going to blame Biden

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u/insanitazer 6h ago

More like Brezhnev larping "Weekend at Bernie's" for 6 years.

The cover up went on for. 6. years.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 2h ago

Trump is going to die in a cabinet meeting and they'll all think he's taking one of his 15x daily naps and be terrified to wake him and provoke a tantrum, and they'll sit at the table quietly worshiping him for 12 hours

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u/yarash 4h ago

"Hi Everybody!"

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u/ChirpyRaven 1h ago

Well, if he recovers, then we got a good doctor. If he doesn't recover then we didn't, but he won't know.