The health of US presidents has been of morbid curiosity for years. From William Taft’s obesity to Franklin Roosevelt’s polio to Gerald Ford’s balance, much is made by politicians when they interpret medical data.
A president’s physical vigor, stamina, and mental acuity are essential to his ability to fulfill the duties of office. If elected officials were honest, and they rarely are, those qualities should matter with no regard to party affiliation.
It is fair to say that the mental competence and well-being of a president seems to matter only to the opposing party and then only if it can be used as a political weapon. The political class is all too keen to see a chief executive’s health through the lens of opportunity, not of democracy or decency.
Given that our last two presidents were, by any standards, elderly, it should come as no surprise that their respective health would be of interest. This focus is logical when the evaluation strictly relates to serving in a role that is the most physically and mentally demanding job in the world.
If measured simply by personal vitality, the level of activity and the ability to speak coherently no honest person would conclude Biden was fit. By the same token none but the Legacy Press and Democrats could determine Trump is not.
For the first three years of the Biden administration, those on the Left, both in politics and the press, ignored Biden’s obvious mental and physical decline. They argued that his insensible statements and general blathering were the vestiges of a “stutter” he suffered with as a youth. As he was born in 1942 this seems implausible. If it were true, why didn’t he have acne or braces?
Biden slept until noon, couldn’t find his way offstage, fell up, down, and across stairs and stages on numerous occasions. Anyone but a Leftist ideolog saw the deterioration and feared for our country and the man. Only his handlers and his party ignored it, putting power above patriotism.
Then on June 27th, 2024, Joe Biden appeared to pass on to the great beyond during a televised debate. There in the glare of the studio lights, he wilted and when he declared “we finally beat Medicare” his political time of death was established.
Biden’s debate performance came with all the energy and liveliness of a corpse, except Biden looked paler.
Biden’s health only became relevant to Democrats when they perceived it to be a liability in the election. Celebrities, pundits, and Democrats could then state openly what we ALL knew. Biden was a cognitive mess.
Free from the conspiratorial sham, many in the press rushed to write books and “anonymous” sources within Biden’s administrations loosened their tongues. Nails in a coffin that was already occupied.
The doctor who examined Biden through the entirety of his presidency kept the charade afloat by continually deeming him “fit to serve”. He may hold a different view now as he invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination during recent congressional testimony. He’s right and should be incriminated.
Now, Democrats want full and complete transparency about Trump’s health. Trump can talk, walk, and chew gum at the same time and yet Dems are worried. Biden could only do one of those things and only with his dentures in, yet his party had no concerns.
Photographs of Trump’s bruised hand and swollen ankles led the fevered press and Libs to demand an accounting of his well-being. As if these two symptoms amongst septuagenarians are uncommon or indicative of more serious underlying issues.
Trump’s Chronic Venous Insufficiency was latched onto as a way to question his overall health and fitness to lead. That these “concerns” were being aired by the very same people who saw Biden’s Walking Dead impression and ignored it, proves they have no concept of irony.
Their fake worry establishes that the health of a president only matters to Democrats when that president is a Republican. In fact, the president’s health is of concern to all of us with no concern for party affiliation.
Democrats and the Left have demonstrated they would rather have a palsy riddled, diaper wearing, dementia patient with their hands on the nuclear football than a Republican. They would rather risk the well-being of the entire world than cede power, or worse, work with a political adversary.
Democrats suffer from Chronic Grievous Insufficiency. An insufficiency of morality, principle, and patriotism. A malady that swells their egos rather than their ankles, causing blindness to truth and common sense. A sickness of the heart and mind. There is no cure.
We should all be concerned with the health of our presidents. As their well-being goes, so goes that of our country. You need to look no further than the years 2020 to 2024 as proof.
© 2025 by Stephen Piccirillo
