The Sick Man of North America

     Like many other Americans, I wake up every morning, check the news and, as I do, silently offer up a prayer that consists of, "Oh, God, please tell me today is the day." Then, disappointed, I gird myself for the grim task of commenting on Trump's latest nightmare.

     All my life, I've been an atheist. I do not believe in the existence of a God, a Devil or Heaven and Hell. But, as Trump is just two weeks away from turning 80, sometimes I'm tempted to believe that there's a Devil somewhere out there that is using supernatural dexterity in keeping that bloated, orange homunculus alive just to spite the human race.

      Just recently, Trump was driven to Walter Reed and underwent a medical examination for the third time in 13 months. The exam took up almost half the day, which alone is cause for alarm. Presidents have annual checkups and they generally don't take up half a day. And, until recently, I think we've been given an accurate reporting from the White House about the state of the president's health.

     Since January last year and especially this year, we've seen and heard things that should send markets into a panic. We've seen Trump dozing off at countless functions, including the Oval Office. At the last 9/11 commemoration, he not only appeared to be sleeping, the right side of his face was drooping as if he was having a stroke.

     He's incapable of standing up straight, as David Pakman's video above shows and he can't even walk in a straight line. If he was given a sobriety test by a cop, he would've immediately been taken into custody. And then there's his Halloween hands with the swelling and bruising that he tries to cover up with makeup. There's the swollen ankles, the rash on his neck. The list goes on.

     And no matter how many times Steven "Oddjob" Cheung screams and curses at reporters, it's not going to change the reality that Trump is falling apart in real time. We need to know that the guy in the Oval Office is able to take that phone call at three in the morning and not be found, instead, putting out vile, nasty messages on Truth Social.

     We're in the middle of an unnecessary and illegal war in the Middle East. We're in the middle of an economic crisis and people are still being rounded up by murderous, masked thugs all over the country like something out of dystopian nightmare.

     The last thing we need in the White House is an addled fool who can't even stand up from a chair or use one hand to drink from a glass. And then there's his "weaving". Has no one else noticed that Trump these days has long since reached the point where he cannot make a public statement and make sense? He can't talk to kids appropriately, he snipes at reporters, he lives in an alternate reality and the sycophantic idiots grin and applaud when he still insists he won the 2020 election.

     Hell, he still brags about acing the MoCA, the diagnostic tool used to check for signs of dementia, one his doctors thought necessary to give him three times. The very fact that Trump thinks it's an intelligence test alone proves that there's something very wrong with him. 

     We deserve better. But we're getting the impression that the 25th amendment doesn't even exist anymore, that it's not a viable remedy where Trump is concerned.