20-05-2025
Trump has lots to say about Biden's health. His own? Not so much.
But not all responses were supportive. After an uncharacteristically gracious social media post from President Trump on Sunday — although given its lack of excessive capitalization and exclamation points, its true authorship is suspect — a day later he babbled conspiracies about Biden's diagnosis.
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'I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know — the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9 — that's a long time,' Trump
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(Biden's cancer is Stage 4, meaning the cancer has spread. The Gleason score measures how prostate cancers look under a microscope; 9 and 10 are the most aggressive. Biden's is 9.)
Then Trump criticized Biden's doctors, claiming 'somebody is not telling the facts.' In just a few minutes, Trump had more to say about Biden's health issues than he has ever revealed about his own, especially during his years as president.
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Last month, the White House released a three-page report about Trump's
Even as Trump talked about Biden's health, he crowed that he 'aced' the answers on a cognitive test. 'If I didn't get them all right, these people,' he said pointing to the media, 'would be after me.'
That's because no one expects Trump to be truthful about his health.
This is the man
After Trump launched his first presidential campaign in 2015,
Three years later, Bornstein said Trump 'dictated' that letter and that Trump's former bodyguard and a lawyer
In 2019, Trump made
In her 2021 book, 'I'll Take Your Questions Now,'
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Then there was Trump's hospitalization for COVID-19 in October 2020. It would be months before the public knew that he
Much like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his dangerously unqualified Health and Human Services secretary, Trump has long equated illnesses with weakness or a personal has a cartoonish obsession with projecting strength, which leaves little room for honest discussions about the health of a heavyset, nearly 79-year-old man with an affinity for fast food.
Recent news cycles have been inundated with stories about the
If that book serves any purpose at all, it should be to push the media to examine more critically the health of the men elected to lead this nation. That certainly includes the physical and cognitive health of the current White House occupant, a Constitution-shredding authoritarian who doesn't deserve to get by on medical reports that rely more on hyperbole than facts.
Renée Graham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at
