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Meh, my dad's mobility was greatly reduced before his mind started to go. But I gotta love the pursed lips like he's kissing an asshole.
Are you saying that #DonnieSoOld?
Yeah, maybe now we can focus on the actual tottering fool in the race, instead of the guy who's a bit off sometimes.
Why are you posting an article from four years ago?
To be fair, if it was that bad 4 years ago, it’s gotta be even worse now, right?
More relevant than ever.
It's only growing more relevant over time?
Not to the people who need to learn from it
Why are we comparing him to someone starting their first term? That's so weird at this point.
The article is four years old.
They’re pushing the old angle very hard
Trump is old, too. Silo'd right behind Biden in the aging department. I doubt he could actually serve another four years either.
And now Biden's age is not a factor.
Aging is weird in that Biden can be chronologically older and get physically younger.
This is because Biden takes care of himself.
You mean a giant platter of cheeseburgers for lunch isn't healthy?
Coupled with the only exercise he gets driving around on a golf cart and filling in a score card?
Absolutely not.
I just watched my grandpa slip down that slope, and am actively watching it happen much more slowly to my grandma. Both of those men are exhibiting much of the same signs my grandfather did. The only thing humans at that age should be concerned with is spending time with loved ones and offering their consultation as an elder source. Anything more, especially in important roles like the President, is insane.
He's the oldest presidential candidate in the race, seems like a good angle to push.
Yep, now all that rhetoric the GOP pushed only fits their candidate.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Trump faced new questions about his health on Sunday, after videos emerged of him gingerly walking down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and having trouble bringing a glass of water to his mouth during a speech there.
Mr. Trump — who turned 74 on Sunday, the oldest a U.S. president has been in his first term — was recorded hesitantly descending the ramp one step at a time after he delivered an address to graduating cadets at the New York-based academy on Saturday.
The videos again raised questions about the health of Mr. Trump, whose advisers have never fully explained his abrupt visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in November, saying at the time only that it was intended to get a jump on his annual physical.
The White House doctor released a memo this month that summarized Mr. Trump’s yearly checkup, but provided little information beyond blood pressure (normal) and a description of his course of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic after the president was exposed to two staff members who tested positive for the coronavirus.
Mr. Trump’s difficulty traversing stairs and ramps has come up before, most notably in January 2017, when he clutched the hand of Theresa May, then the British prime minister, as they walked at the White House.
But Mr. Trump spent much of the fall general election in 2016 challenging the “strength and stamina” of his Democratic rival at the time, Hillary Clinton, who suffered a bout of pneumonia and was videotaped unsteadily being led into a van at the annual ceremony at the World Trade Center site to commemorate the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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