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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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[–] Molvorin@feddit.dk 8 points 20 hours ago

This is no confession. Just Trump wanting to be the best, biggest, first in everything his talks take him.

If he was talking to child-molesters, I'm sure he'd find something to brag to them about too. This is just him bragging that he is the best at being sick, without really thinking about what he just said

[–] o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago

Then just fucking die, you fucking pedo shit stain.

[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Good! Just drop dead already satanic pedo Russian sympathizer!

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I have some very severe problems.

[–] crystalmathadept@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You don't even need context.. Everyone on earth knows who you're referring to.

I'd imagine this is what it was like when hitler was alive..

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Even more so, he is a severe problem.

[–] dektep@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While I'm with you on general terms, I think it would be better he dropped dead after the midterms, say, by getting a stroke when seeing the results.

Because at the moment, he is the biggest boat anchor around the GOPs neck, so no reason to lose him and let them breathe.

He rapes children dude, he needs to die ASAP, politics be damned.

[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I just want to see it happen during one of his speeches, can't happen fast enough! What a shit stain on humanity this orange turd is.

[–] Denfa@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

His supporters are exposed so well on "The Good Liars". I highly recommend it!

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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."

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Maybe it'l prolapse so far that he'll trip on it.

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[–] GrumpyGrampa@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

He’s severely demented…….

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 216 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

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 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day 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 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"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!"

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[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be real fuckin pissed if he winds up making Halloween all about him.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I’d be ecstatic if the front page of any day was an obituary

[–] sploder@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Honestly it's kinda sad, he could have been such an advocate for healthy living and staying sober. He could have fought for treatment for addicts.

Same with hegseth, he gets clowned on for not keeping up with the army members he trains with but, brother in christ, he's 46 and doesn't hold a position where physical fitness is relevant.

The two of them could have advocated for keeping your body healthy but instead they had to wrap it in manosphere anti-woke BS

[–] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 2 points 20 hours ago

He is not concerned about congress flipping. Vought has figured out how to keep new candidates form taking the oath on Jan 3rd. UNFTR has a piece on it, looks extremely likely to me.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This is nothing to do with health.

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

[–] joecitizen@piefed.ca 27 points 1 day ago
[–] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

'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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.”

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[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] Mordred_85@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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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