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Miles Archer

(22,245 posts)
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 06:38 AM Nov 2025

We've reached the point where Trump is fist-bumping the cameras after "making it down Air Force One's steps."

Trump slumped into a waiting limousine after landing in Palm Beach for a Mar-a-Lago weekend on Friday—even as he demanded lawmakers keep at it in Washington, D.C., amid the ongoing government shutdown.

In footage captured by Fox News on Friday night, Trump can be seen slowly making his way off Air Force One. He descends the stairs at a cautious pace and raises his fist after completing the task without incident, before almost collapsing into the seat of his waiting car.

The dark footage shows Trump’s head rolling back, and he appears to sigh as he sits.

Less than two hours before he flew south for the weekend, Trump posted to Truth Social that senators should not leave the capital until they can reopen the government, which has now been closed for 39 days—the longest stretch in American history.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-slumps-into-limo-after-successfully-navigating-air-force-one-steps/

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We've reached the point where Trump is fist-bumping the cameras after "making it down Air Force One's steps." (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2025 OP
Soon, AF1 will carry a presidential forklift. nt Buns_of_Fire Nov 2025 #1
I'm amazed they haven't built him a battery-powered elevator FakeNoose Nov 2025 #10
Forklift One hotdamn00 Nov 2025 #18
He's at Death's Door Joinfortmill Nov 2025 #2
Not for long, I hope. Orrex Nov 2025 #3
he really does seem to be having trouble standing for long and navigating stairs LymphocyteLover Nov 2025 #6
Open the door. Let him in. 2MuchNoise Nov 2025 #20
Nope I wish him further incapacity IbogaProject Nov 2025 #24
Watching the news of the release BOSSHOG Nov 2025 #27
Yes things like that IbogaProject Nov 2025 #30
From your lips to Gods ears! Hey Joe Nov 2025 #31
Trip and fall, you fuck Aviation Pro Nov 2025 #4
Is any media ever allowed to show him struggling up the steps? Lonestarblue Nov 2025 #5
does he go up? Maybe he gets a lift up away from the cameras LymphocyteLover Nov 2025 #8
There was posted on D.U. about a week ago --- climbing the plane's stairs. 3Hotdogs Nov 2025 #9
LOL. I did see a picture yesterday of some poor servicemember pushing Dump's butt through LymphocyteLover Nov 2025 #12
I look at it this way StoolPigeon Nov 2025 #15
Oh, I SO hope that description is accurate. n//t IL Dem Nov 2025 #7
Maybe they should get him a stair lift so he can sit his way down. milestogo Nov 2025 #11
LOL, notice how he pats his flabulous thigh just before starting the treacherous descent, Pinback Nov 2025 #13
But Biden slipped on the AF-1 stairs. It was a thing at the time -- eagerly pointed allegorical oracle Nov 2025 #14
Wasn't a fist bump Aviation Pro Nov 2025 #16
No golf this weekend BOSSHOG Nov 2025 #28
Soon he will cross that Rainbow Bridge and multigraincracker Nov 2025 #17
Last Feb to Early April I had a visiting nurse come by to change a dressing on my foot where I had some ... Botany Nov 2025 #19
One doesn't get an MRI just for kicks. paleotn Nov 2025 #22
I think he had one stroke in his first term .... he went to Walter Reed Hospital on a Sunday afternoon for Botany Nov 2025 #23
That's not AI that's really Chump - in the video and in the photo FakeNoose Nov 2025 #33
Being president is a tough job. Even when you phone most of it in. paleotn Nov 2025 #21
Surprised he's not on another tax payer paid overseas vacation Emile Nov 2025 #25
It's the international sign for constipation. C_U_L8R Nov 2025 #26
He's weak. Not well. MineralMan Nov 2025 #29
A perfectly healthy Trump springs up the stairs like a sprightly fawn. LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2025 #32

FakeNoose

(40,730 posts)
10. I'm amazed they haven't built him a battery-powered elevator
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 08:16 AM
Nov 2025

It seems a no-brainer .... he clearly can't get up those steps.
In the White House and everywhere else, he only uses elevators.

IbogaProject

(5,698 posts)
24. Nope I wish him further incapacity
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 09:44 AM
Nov 2025

Bed ridden needing help w basic hygine, feeding and hopefully he can't enuciate with much clarity. Though inside I want him aware and unable to communicate to much if any effect. I want him stuck watching the news while he has lost influence. I have been wishing thiz upon him since he mocked that reporter with the physical challanges, who was able minded.

IbogaProject

(5,698 posts)
30. Yes things like that
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 09:53 AM
Nov 2025

And for his support within the beltway to evaporate and for the media to begin the eulgies while he sits watching with limited capacity to respond.

Lonestarblue

(13,341 posts)
5. Is any media ever allowed to show him struggling up the steps?
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 07:50 AM
Nov 2025

Going up is usually much harder for anyone in his poor physical condition.

3Hotdogs

(15,148 posts)
9. There was posted on D.U. about a week ago --- climbing the plane's stairs.
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 08:15 AM
Nov 2025

He was almost at the top of the stairs and some poor fuck was behind him, pushing his fat ass into the plane.

LymphocyteLover

(9,558 posts)
12. LOL. I did see a picture yesterday of some poor servicemember pushing Dump's butt through
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 08:21 AM
Nov 2025

a helicopter or plane door, but I wasn't sure when it was from

StoolPigeon

(225 posts)
15. I look at it this way
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 08:38 AM
Nov 2025

In 2016 we saw him come down an escalator. A few months back we saw the escalator fail to take him up. I see it as confirmation as to which he will leave the Pearly Gates.

Pinback

(13,545 posts)
13. LOL, notice how he pats his flabulous thigh just before starting the treacherous descent,
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 08:26 AM
Nov 2025

as if to say, “Come on, champ. You’ve got this.”

They should just give him the Olympic Gold Medal for stairwalking right now.

Botany

(76,700 posts)
19. Last Feb to Early April I had a visiting nurse come by to change a dressing on my foot where I had some ...
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 09:04 AM
Nov 2025

…. surgery (I am good now) and one of them said that every patient she had had over her 25+ years
of nursing that showed the symptoms that Donny was showing then was either dead or in total
cognitive shutdown in under a year to 18 months.

We know that he has had @ least one or two strokes, has some kind of cardio/pulmonary/circulatory disease, his short term memory is failing (same question or statement 3 or 4 times in under 10 or so
minutes), he doesn’t eat well his favorite meal is 2 Big Macs, 2 McDonald’s Fried Fish Sandwiches,
Fries, and a chocolate milkshake, he is falling asleep all the time, his bruising on his right hand is
from an I.V. or Pulmonary Edema, he wears diapers, he has a catheter too, and he 79.5 years old.

Please any smart DU doctors, nurses, or medical professionals please let me know if I am right.

Btw look @ this image …. It might be A.I.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20777376


Botany

(76,700 posts)
23. I think he had one stroke in his first term .... he went to Walter Reed Hospital on a Sunday afternoon for
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 09:42 AM
Nov 2025

… a physical? And another not long ago because even though they are trying to hide it his mouth
is dropping on the left side. You are 100% right they don’t give cognitive tests or MRI tests because
they don’t think something might be wrong.

FakeNoose

(40,730 posts)
33. That's not AI that's really Chump - in the video and in the photo
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 06:20 PM
Nov 2025

He's making the grim face while going up those steps because of the pain he's in. Also he has trouble balancing, so he's holds both left and right railings. The helicopter steps could be due to some air currents or buoyancy while he tried to climb up. It's not necessarily a sign of weakness or old age.

Yes Chump definitely has trouble with any kind of steps. He only uses an elevator in the White House and in Mar-A-Lago. The only time he uses steps is when he gets on and off Air Force One or the helicopters. Sometimes he might pose for a photo on steps but he doesn't actually go up or down.

MineralMan

(150,879 posts)
29. He's weak. Not well.
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 09:50 AM
Nov 2025

On the other hand, at 80 years of age, I'm celebrating each day I can put on a pair of jeans without sitting down. I don't do that in public, though.

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