If Donald Trump had ever had to face the kind of scrutiny that his political opponents have faced — think not just Hillary but also Bernie, not just Christie but also Cruz — rather than just arriving on the scene in 2015 as a media darling, the nation might be in a different place right now.
Now, I’m not saying that CNN or the New York Times elected Trump. I’m just saying that if the media had spent as much time covering the eating habits of a man who thought it was a good idea to buy a thousand “hamberders” for the winners of the college football national championship as they did cataloging the dietary habits of, say, a former Secretary of State (example subheading: She’s a drinker), maybe we wouldn’t have quite so many taco bowl and fried chicken memes — or a crazy person in the Oval Office.
So it’s up to the layman to sort out the details of what might be red flags about Donald Trump’s health, despite the fact that a picture of Hillary Clinton suffering from heat exhaustion in a full-on pantsuit in the dog days of summer caused speculation that she had everything from pneumonia to brain cancer.
What’s our favorite speculation about Trump today?
Did they do some kind of blood oath ritual or something? h/t @Marmel pic.twitter.com/rvshsoYRwU
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 15, 2019
Band-aids. Not just a band-aid, one that’s clearly covering a bloody wound of some sort. I’m not as concerned about Hannity’s band-aid in that tweet — it’s probably just his vampire bite flaring up. But plenty of tweeters weighed in on the President’s, and the consensus seems to be that he’s had a fluid IV while out on a day trip.
There were more humorous takes, of course:
He probably just bit himself during a particularly vigorous devouring of a midnight bucket of KFC.
— Full Tilt Booty (@fulltiltbooty) January 15, 2019
i’m sorry to report that trump and hannity have been receiving transfusions of youthful blood and will be with us forever
— young ma’am (@skullmuffins) January 15, 2019
They had their chips replaced.
— Debz (@debz_urquhart) January 15, 2019
But the point is, President 238 Pounds has been notoriously secretive about his own health, and the media seems to simply leave it alone. And this is the real question:
How many weeks would the National Enquirer have said Hillary had to live if she showed up for an appearance with a fresh IV wound?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 15, 2019
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