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Donald Trump has made a bizarre confession about his own health at an event at the White House.

The US president was addressing a group of firefighters when he went on a tangent about personal vices.

"If you don’t drink or you don’t take drugs or if you don’t smoke, there’s no problem," Trump said.

"I have other problems, I have some very severe problems. But those are not one of them."

"I don't want to add them to the list, 'cos if I did I guarantee I wouldn't be here right now."

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[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 217 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Trump:

"If people get sick in the audience, they leave them alone. You know what they call them? Collateral damage," He then pointed out someone in the crowd. "If that person right over there, he looks like s— actually. He looks like he's ready to have a heart attack. " "If he actually had a heart attack, you know what my doctors would do, they would follow the president and leave him alone. "I've got like six ambulances and they won't use one for anybody else."

What a vile man.

[-] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 weeks ago

Six ambulances. That's when you know you made it. The American Dream.

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 weeks ago

At the cost of an ambulance ride??? More like the American nightmare for the rest of us!

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[-] yakko@feddit.uk 35 points 2 weeks ago

I now think it's possible to become so morally wicked, so addled with evil thoughts, that one ceases to even be human in any meaningful sense of the word. Trump has convinced me that, in a mundane but definite sense, skinwalkers exist.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago

He's essentially a dragon, the self centered, gold hoarding kind.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago

Smaug wouldn't even be a top ten wealthiest American billionaire. Fictional greed-obsessed monsters have objectively less than our real oligarchs.

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

You give him too much credit. He's more like a toddler than never had to share.

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[-] kalman@dboft.com 18 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is nothing to do with health.

This is a subtle reference to how one of his vices is raping children.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] Mordred_85@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

I’m Italian and let me tell you I know this pattern: he’s got a sex problem. It came in his mind when he was talking about vice, so that’s why he couldn’t list it. Everybody knew, the crowd was alpha males in his mind so he had to show off. He is aware of what caused the fall of Berlusconi, women.

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[-] Ariselas@piefed.ca 52 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure his diseases are exquisite

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[-] sploder@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago

I honestly don’t take this as health concerns. I think it’s a severely depraved thing, like possibly raping more children than we knew or maybe even killing people. Who tf knows. But I don’t think it’s health related. It’s nasty vile evil shit related.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

The part about having 6 ambulance that he's forbidden to help his biggest supporters, and still for the love of Christ going on about cognitive tests, and apparently still taking them, are absolutely not things healthy people say.

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[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

Its kinda bugging me that he used the words collateral damage when it comes to citizens dying. He parrots a lot of stuff he's heard in meetings recently and its just a bit unsettling. What is the collateral damage he was likely recently told about?

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago

It reminds me of a few months back when he was talking about groceries as though he had just heard the word for the first time.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'd misremembered that that was one of the words he thought he coined, but it's not. He called the word "old fashioned" and said something like "It's basically a bag with different things in it." So… still idiotic, but not quite what I remembered. It's hard to keep up with his fucking dementia. lol

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[-] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 36 points 2 weeks ago

'Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.'

Oliver Kornetzke

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Just don't croak before the midterms, or the GOP could get an updrift out of getting rid of this boat anchor around their neck.

It's fine with me if the midterm results give him a nice stroke that turns him into a vacant banana.

[-] pticrix@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago

"Some say I have the very best illnesses. Biden would say he does, but I do. But I do, the biggest illnesses. One person said to me, they said "Mr Trump, you're a sick man" and they're right, I am. Even more than they know!"

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I have the best illnesses. Obam...Obama never had illnesses as good as me and wouldn't be able to handle them like...Sleepy Joe Biden had problems and the sicks but he can't...he couldn't...he never handled them because libruls...libruls and communists and socialists don't do sick the way I do sick

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[-] joecitizen@piefed.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago
[-] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago

Tin foil hat moment

His advisers are likely telling him there's a high chance that he loses the house and Senate in the midterms, and that he will likely be impeached again. While it's unlikely he will be removed by the Senate, he may be setting up a scapegoat to step down as president "I'm too sick to be president" as soon as he passes the 2 year mark, so JD Vance can take over and still be eligible for 2 terms after.

As a narcissist with no shame, this probably won't happen, but if his (Thiel-backed) advisers are in his ear, he's at least hearing it frequently.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

setting up a scapegoat to step down as president "I'm too sick to be president" as soon as he passes the 2 year mark, so JD Vance can take over

Fortunately Vance has the personality of a wet couch cushion and won't likely be able to motivate the MAGA cultists.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is a narcissist to the core. Start from that point. The only things that are likely to be problems to him are his own personal health and anything that threatens his status. That could be anything from him knowing he’s getting dementia to “If the dems win a majority in the midterms they could make life hard for me.”

[-] Freeposity@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

The internal struggle between wanting to use his illnesses for attention and wanting to appear "strong" must be epic.

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[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Geez, I'm starting to feel sorry for him..

"I have some very severe problems. The doctor says my asshole is on the outside now. Look at this. This looks like skin, but it's not. It's lining, they call it lining. It's very beautiful, some say the most beautiful, most natural looking thing that looks like skin but it's not skin, it's asshole lining. All over my body. No skin to be seen anywhere, just lining. You think it's skin but it's lining. The doctors, they say they've never seen anything like it. They want to study it. It's the mark of a stable genius I think because they want to study it like they study Einstein's brain. You get to see it on TV but they want to see it up close. Lining, they call it. My asshole lining covering me completely. They say it's genius. I don't know, but that's what they say."

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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

He does drugs. It’s known he has an adderal addiction.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but I guarantee he won't call that drugs. He'd just say it's medicine.

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[-] crystalmathadept@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

He’s still breathing and that’s a severe problems for everyone on earth.

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[-] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 19 points 2 weeks ago

He should just say “I’m in perfect health the doctors love me” then immediately collapse dead on the floor

[-] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

I would say being a fucking pedophile is a huge problem.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Dearth@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I doubt he thinks his pedophillia is a problem. He's probably not even talking about his health. I bet he considers his biggest problem is his desire to get fucked in the ass.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Let's go thrombo!

clap-clap...clap,clap,clap

Let's go thrombo!

[-] dektep@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago
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[-] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago

He's been broken from birth! Fuck off trump, no one has ever liked you.

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is ambiguous language. He has problems. There were no health implications here.

[-] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago

I got that too. He's speaking about vices and sex is considered a vice. Are we about to get new Epstein files?

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[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

This sounds like a weird sympathy pre-election card; it might be true, but bringing it up right before an election is nothing less than what he’s always done — game the system.

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

Old men love to fake that they are dying for sympathy.

Source: shitty family

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I have some very severe problems.

[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

Come on, man. Have a drink, pick up smoking, do some drugs. You have the best healthcare in the world. You'll be okay.

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[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh fuck yes. God I'm gonna cum

Where's the champagne, get ready

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[-] GrumpyGrampa@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

He’s severely demented…….

[-] Denfa@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes he has nightmares about all the kids he raped coming back to publicly expose him as the pedo he is; and his creeping dementia causes momentary confusion that maybe it’s real and he’ll go to jail.

But then Natalie changes his diaper and puts him back to bed with a kiss on his forehead—and as he drifts off he remembers his supporters don’t care if he raped children and he can sleep soundly again.

The end

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