Trump’s Texts to CNN Host Renew Health Speculation
Trump’s Texts to CNN Host Renew Health Speculation
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Trump’s Texts to CNN Host Renew Health Speculation
Totally something healthy presidents do.
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I will tune out of these news unless it's a confirmation of his death.
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Same. Everything else is me becoming sad cause he is still alive at best. Or getting angry cause I fell for click bait again at worst.
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'"A real journalist would have refused to do the interview."
-- one of the first few comments -
Anyone else wonder why they would hold off exiting him? It's obvious he's more useful in office than out. But, it's inevitable that he will exit the office sooner than later, and they clearly have a plan to replace him. My nagging thought is. why wait?-
MAGA is a bunch of different groups with mutually conflicting agendas. Libertarians hate tariffs, anti-vaxers don't like that Operation Warp Speed did its job, and Christian Nationalists hate just about everyone. What keeps them from fighting each other is Trump, and Trump alone.
That's how cults of personality often work. As soon as the personality in questions dies, all this infighting shatters the group. Rarely, a cult of personality can convert into a cult of ideas, but it's very difficult to pull off. Mormons did when Joseph Smith died, but for every success story, there's 100 more little cults you've never heard of that never worked out after the leader died or went to jail.
They cannot replace him. They can try, but it's almost certainly going to fail. Trying to replace him before he dies would only make the fracture even more severe, because now his name becomes a rallying cry for the "true believers".
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Which is why all the factions are trying to get their agenda advanced as quickly as possible before he croaks. The techno-feudalist side had the advantage with their boy JD poised to take over but removing him is much more politcally viable for the Christian nationalists in congress
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I totally agree with all of this about Trump's voters, and at this point I'm 100% sure that if you beamed us back into the 2024 Election, Kamala Harris would win by a landslide.
BUT I think the White House itself is rather unified. Sure, the Republicans may never have the support of the majority of the USA, but they don't need to win another election. All the Republicans need is control of the military, which they can stuff full of young, hateful men who have been groomed into rage and thoughtlessly following orders... which is already underway.
JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Peter Thiel -- they're all united in their Christo-fascist beliefs. Hell, if Trump had mental capacity to do more than sign the documents placed in front of him, he would probably be the biggest wrench with their plans. In his first term, Donald Trump openly countered Mike Pence's statements on key Republican issues like gun rights. In this administration, Elon Musk was the most "out there" from the rest in being a libertarian 4chan incel manchild, but he's now entirely out of the scene.
The MAGA voter base may never be as supportive of the regime as they were in 2024, but that's not going to matter unless that fractured voting base pulls off an effective insurrection.
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They lose him, they lose what's left of maga. There's no replacing that.
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Don’t tease me! Nothing would please me more than waking up to his obituary. Then we need to get the next Nuremberg trials going, ASAP.
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I suspect the challenges won't end with Mr Trump out of office. I think he's part of a larger machine, and I fear JustDance Vance will pick another questionable leadership candidate to match himself and the pain train will keep on rollin'.
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The good news is if Trump passes soon Vance can only run for one term.
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Hegseth will be his VP.
Drink!
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We have reached "need daily photos of President holding a copy of today's newspaper".
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Anyone else think that they will pull an Edith Willson and try to 'weekend at Bernies' for as long as possible? Haven't seen the comments below, so this has probably already been brought up.
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His corpse will be paraded around long enough for Steven Miller et al to implement as much fascist bullshit they can to sieze enough power. Then trump will be worshiped as the second coming of Reagan for the next 50 years. Republicans love idolizing those you cause the most lasting damage to the county.
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Doctors hope that if his condition improves by next week, they can declare him dead.
He might have to go back to the NIH to save his life again and oh... nevermind.
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if its on CNN and the dailybeast, it's kayfabe
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Til kayfabe. You're probably right
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On X, however, CNN viewers speculated that Trump turned to his keyboard to avoid being seen—if it was even him sending the texts at all.
Autopen?
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Can i get a different source? Ah fuckit. Here.
Jesus that’s fucked up. Howard Hughes fucked up.
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This source might work better for you.
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Please please please!
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I have a bottle of prosecco ready.
I only drink American Champagne in cans.