by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
There are several intriguing news stories buzzing trough the wires this morning, but one stands out, at least to this tired old typist, as having the potential to be truly cataclysmic. Donald John Trump, age 79, has an appointment within the hour for what his press secretary yesterday described as a "routine yearly checkup." Karoline Leavitt, Trump's press hack, didn't elaborate, just a quick announcement of seemingly little consequence - a "routine" thing. Trump would be at nearby Walter Reed Medical Center speaking to some US troops, and would just stop-by the doctor's office while he was there and check-in. No biggie.
No biggie, that is, until those pesky left-wing journos dug back through their notes and quickly confirmed that Trump had been to the same hospital for his annual check-up this past April - just six months earlier. Today's visit will be his second "annual" exam for the same year.
What giives?
Today Trump is prattling on about this doctor's visit being his "semi-annual" medical exam, a new item on the presidential calendar. Should we expet a "quarterly" exam in the near future, and then perhaps a "monthly?" Enquiring minds want to know.
All that sleight-of-hand and misdirection should be overlaid with the fact that Trump has a White House physician who is on call 24-7 to deal with the normal maladies that might be expected to confront an obese man who is just months away from his 80th birthday, and whose ability to speak definitively and clearly decreases with each passing hour. Whatever is suddenly going on with the elderly man's health apparently requires more expertise and better equipped facilities than are present at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And one more layer of suspense can be added with other White House scheduling for today. First Lady Melania Trump has an "unspecified announcement" on her calendar for 11:00 a.m. today, and Trump has an "unspecified announcement" for 5:00 p.m. Neither may amount to a "hill of beans," as my other used to say, but Pa Rock finds them intriguing nonetheless, fascinating to the point that I almost forgot about the Epstein files - for a little while at least!
Perhaps that was the point of this little medical melodrama.
1 comment:
We will never be told the truth until after his death, if then. There may be some telling signs. Things like he starts talking about getting to Heaven or he gives stops eating Big Macs.
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