I am very concerned about the President's health [View all]
He prefers greasy fattening foods, and he has said for years that he thinks exercise shortens your life
Cardiac tests indicate arterial plaque, and his deteriorating speech problems suggest vascular issues may be having cognitive effects. His erratic, impulsive, and increasingly angry style also suggests a psychological reaction to health problems
He was given anti-cholesterol medication some time ago and was encouraged to make some lifestyle changes
Then, last year, his doctor suddenly reported him as an inch taller than previously reported. Interestingly, using his reported weigh at that time, with his previously reported height, would lead to a BMI in the obese range, whereas using his reported weigh at that time, with his newly reported height, would lead to a BMI just shy of the obese range
Recent photographs do not indicate he has been successfully losing weight; and the natural guess should be that he is ever more obese, which makes yesterday's heart attack scare seem especially frightening
The stresses of the Presidency traditionally exact a real toll from office holders, aging them more quickly than usual; and since Mr Trump's health habits have been substandard for many years, the toll might be exceptionally high in his case
It would certainly be a tragedy if Mr Trump was reduced by some cerebral accident to a vacant incompetency or if a serious heart problem prevented him from driving his golf cart across the greens that he so loves
Might not his happiness be better served if he retired sooner, rather than later, and returned to New York or Palm Beach or Antenora, or wherever it is he now calls home, to be surrounded by the love of his wife or daughter, while enjoying the profits of his DC hotel and his university and his charity, secure in the knowledge that his son-in-law Jared and his sons were running his real estate empire?
Surely we Americans can hope for a happy ending here
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