Colbert made a joke about it last night. NBC News wrote about it, too:
President Donald Trump will have a physical exam early next year and will make the results public, the White House said Thursday, a day after the president appeared to slur his words in a public address.
Near the end of his policy remarks Wednesday on Israel, Trump, 71, began having difficulty with words that included the letter “s,” voicing some of them as “sh.” He ended by saying what sounded like “and God bless the United Shtesh.”
Scores of people asked on social media whether the president had had a stroke or was struggling with dentures, which he isn’t known to use.
Let’s hope he hasn’t had a stroke or any other related neurological event. I don’t say that for either patriotic or sentimental reasons; I am being entirely hard-headed about this. Trump should never have been nominated, Trump should never have been elected, and at this juncture he has proven to be an even worse President than we could have dreamed, enfeebling the government, nominating sub-optimal judges, engendering scandal after scandal, and generally alienating the world.
If he has had a stroke, all of his supporters, who should be shamed that they ever voted for him, will be able to hide themselves behind the excuse that Trump was suffering from an illness well-known to affect judgment, and thus he wasn’t the same man as they voted for. Thus they can escape the necessary soul-searching and taking part in the national renewal which we’ll need, post-Trump. Such a renewal includes confessing to our own errors in judgment, having remorse for them, vowing to do better, and then healing the rifts which have erupted in today’s society.
Without the participation of those who enabled Trump’s electoral victory, such a process would be weak and ineffective.
It’d be much better to have this entire Russian scandal be completely aired out, and if Trump and his cohorts are indeed guilty of colluding with the Russians, then bounce them out. Force the GOP to choose between enabling someone who is arguably a traitor, assuming the Russian scandal has the worst story behind it, or dumping Trump out.
We need to have that traumatic surprise which might bring enlightenment to at least some of his supporters, an opportunity to learn that such a crass idolator of money should not be in charge of the government.
