Dr. Jonathan Reiner is a cardiologist who was Vice President Dick Cheney’s personal heart doctor for more than a decade and now serves as a CNN medical analyst, and he said this morning that so-called “President” Donald Trump’s health is much worse than the White House is admitting.
As Trump goes for his third medical checkup in 13 months today, Reiner noted, “The president and his team are not legally required to release information to Congress or the public, and I think that really should change. There are so many roles in our society that require annual assessments of physical capacity. You know, pilots, Secret Service agents, school bus drivers, and for the chief executive of this country and the commander in chief of our armed forces, we should have a clear understanding that the president is fit for duty.”
Trump, who will turn 80 next month, suffers from several health issues, Reiner added.
“I do want to see this during this examination a credible explanation for his visible health concerns. His bruising, which initially was described as due to vigorous hand shaking, which is not credible, [and] his severe edema in his ankles, which was described as, you know, chronic venous insufficiency when just three months before, one year ago, he was his examination disclosed that he had no edema, which would then make it acute acute venous insufficiency, which is an entirely different thing.”
And then there’s the issue of Trump’s sleep patterns, which are not normal. He stays up into the wee hours of the morning posting on social media, and then nods off the next day during meetings.
“The president has severe daytime somnolence,” Reiner said. “He falls asleep very often. He’s fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the Cabinet Room, and was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day observances, and chronic insomnia is a severe illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people.”
“It’s equivalent to about increasing your age by about three and a half years,” the doctor noted. “It increases your cardiac risk of having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure, and it can produce a decline in your sort of mental functions, like it can increase depression, anxiety, so it’s a real problem, and the president appears to struggle to stay awake during the day, and I’d like to hear what the White House has done to evaluate why the president has this increased daytime somnolence and what they’re doing to improve that.”
You may recall that Trump loved to make fun of former President Joe Biden’s fitness for office, and now the same questions are being asked about his health and mental acuity.
Karma comes in many forms, and now Trump is on the receiving end of the hateful things he’s accused others of. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
