Is Trump's doctor okay?
Examining the White House physicians briefing on President Trumps physical, I was alarmed not about the presidents health, but the doctors.Source: WaPo, by Dana Milbank
We see it in the once-dignified Sen. Orrin Hatch suggesting Trump is on his way to being a better president than Lincoln or Washington, in Rep. Kevin McCarthy collecting pink and red Starburst candy for Trump, in the lies told by Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to cover for Trumps racist outburst, and in the fawning public performances by White House officials Stephen Miller and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. What makes them trash their dignity?
That, Lee speculates, could explain powerful sycophancy that overcomes those who get close to Trump. Those close to him are sensing this level of appeasement is necessary, Lee speculated. They feel they need to step in as a way to diminish his volatility and rage.
The danger, Lee said, is that Trumps courtiers do this for too long and succumb to shared psychosis, in which they come to share his view of the world and lose touch with reality.
They might even come to believe that a sedentary 71-year-old with significant plaque in his coronary arteries, high cholesterol and borderline obesity is the very picture of health.
Read it all at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-trumps-doctor-okay/2018/01/17/0d887f50-fbce-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)....about to have a heart attack....
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)Im not kidding.
Gothmog
(145,894 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,985 posts)Doc: "OK, Mr President, please undress so I can examine you."
Trump: "No. I don't undress for anybody but hot women."
Doc: "But how can I...?"
Trump: "I gave you all the information you need."
Doc: "You told me you're 6'4" and weigh 190. I don't think that's right. Could you at least step on this scale so I can get an accurate weight?"
Trump: "No. If you want you can fudge those numbers a little but I don't want people to think I'm fat."
Doc: "According to this chart, if you're 6'3" and 239 you're not obese. Is that OK with you?"
Trump: "Whatever. But no shorter and no heavier than that. Obama is 6'1" and I can't be shorter than him."
Doc: "Well, OK, but I'm still concerned about your cholesterol levels. You could be developing heart disease."
Trump: "No, I'm not. I'm in excellent health. You can't say I have heart disease, or that there's anything wrong with me."
Doc: "But you need to lose weight or..."
Trump: "You're a naval officer, aren't you?"
Doc: "Yes."
Trump: "Do you like your job?"
Doc: "Yes, why do you ask?"
Trump: "Have you ever been to Guam?"
Doc: "No."
Trump: "Would you like to go there? The naval base could probably use a good doctor."
Doc: "No, not really. I like my work here."
Trump: "The Secretary of the Navy works for me, did you know that?"
Doc: "Yes, but what...?"
Trump: "So you'll say I'm in excellent health, right?
Doc: "But..."
Trump: "Excellent. Health. Guam."
Doc: "Uh huh. Excellent health. Got it."
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)if he lived next to a Krispy Kreme Donuts.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Told her I've been working on my McD's addiction, adding "It's not, y'know, as bad as Trump's..."
She goes "How'd he get that doctor to lie like that?"
She hadn't heard his calcium score, which I told her, with the expected shocked reaction.
We agreed that it would be a great idea to keep a cheeseburger in front of him at all times.