A Guide to Trump’s Body Parts: The forthcoming midterm elections are a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies, not his health. But when those policies include renaming the Atlantic “Trump Ocean,” or affecting indifference about whether Iran might “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego, or prohibiting nominees for executive branch positions from saying out loud, “Joe Biden won the 2020 election,” that changes the equation. With directives like these emanating from the White House, it’s everybody’s civic duty to consider whether its occupant is a well man.
Navy Captain Sean Barbabella, who is physician to President Trump, pronounced five months ago that Trump is “fully fit to carry out all duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State.” Barbabella said much the same after Trump’s chest and belly underwent a CT scan the previous October. But no presidential physician has ever dared state otherwise. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson said Woodrow Wilson’s stroke in 1919 was merely a bout of “nervous exhaustion.” Dr. Janet Travell lied her head off to cover up John F. Kennedy’s Addison’s disease. Even the autopsy report sent to the Warren Commission omitted that Kennedy’s adrenal glands were only barely still present, presumably because these pathologists didn’t want to acknowledge the undisclosed cause.
Compared to Trump, though, Wilson and JFK were compulsive truth-tellers. So what are the odds we’re getting the straight story about the president’s physical and mental fitness now? Any serious inquiry into Trump’s health must weigh the official line against medical doctors’ analyses of what they see on television; observations from Trump’s staff; and various reports from books, newspapers, magazines, and so on. We scrounge for evidence where we can.
Diagnosing any patient from afar is a tricky business, especially when the diagnostician (me) never attended medical school. It is also perhaps unkind. But to any who would criticize the following inventory as cruel, let me remind you that, 22 months into his presidency, Trump still habitually blames “Sleepy Joe Biden” or “Slow Joe” for everything that… https://newrepublic.com/article/216655/guide-trump-body-parts