At a week and a half from 81, I know old age, but at 200 lb I do not abuse my body as if I were a flab ridden 320 pounder. Which Trump seems to have allowed himself to be.
I'd get sleep and park the golf cart a bit of a short walk from the green to get a few steps in. Little things.
He lacks the discipline. He indulges short term, and fats out. Not body shaming, but health shaming, given his position in politics. He owes us, the nation, the best decisionmaking good health he and unlimited med resources can give us.
His history of pigheadedness and coincident bad business decisions and bankruptcies suggest he needs to have the best of advisors and to trust them. His lifelong inferiority complex, for which he's found compensating postures and conduct need revision. He'll never be all Fred wanted, but live with it and be the best possible, given genetics and environment and personal slobbish indulgent history leading to this point.
He's let himself whale out.
His mental acuity is not what it was thirty years ago in sharper-minded Apprentice entertainment days. He's slipping and slurring and meandering from the point. He needs JD to not only front the stuff, small and bigger, but to have an entire competent cabinet with everyone on board saying, "Health matters." He says he's healthy, but he is not, and likely believes he's deluding people when we see and know.
Anyone saying this is a healthy man is in self-delusion, or lying.
That said, the job of others in politics is to try to channel help and positive personal feelings, even if thinking his policy is a road to the Great Depression of this century. Obama had to overcome the Bush 2008 disaster, Biden to overcome the Covid mishandling and lack of pandemic preparation, which is going worse under the Kennedy chap.
Bad things, and bad health are each capable of being fought against.
This cheap fist pumping, "Fight, fight, fight" is delusional for a man who will not even eat well or trust enough those he elevates to positions of trust. Hegseth and Kennedy are physically fit, overly so perhaps, but mentally impaired, and they've so far had relative longevity in Trump 47, despite publicly expressed misgivings of others.
Trump at his core is an awful judge of people, wanting to install those less gifted than himself, to his detriment since he is more salesman and sound-bite specialist, than gifted in any needed sense.
He even delivers his sound-bites these days in writing, Truth Social, where ghost-writing is a question?
Washington, D.C., we have a problem.
___________UPDATE____________
At the Pentagon 9/11 memorial service Trump looked bad, but after finding the speech he gave online, he read the teleprompters on each side clearly, turning obviously from one to the other as he read. It was, however, reassuring that his vocal power had not degenerated greatly in a short few days, where speculation over a possible stroke has been given media attention.
If he'd had a stroke it did not impair his reading or articulating skill more than, say, the middle of last month or earlier. He is living a hard 79th year, and it was encouraging, his voice, even with media speculation. However, health is a concern, and his attendance rather than sending JD for the event was also encouraging.
I absolutely hope he keeps his health able, and if going into difficulty that he has the good sense to acknowledge when it might be time to cut this second term short, if that ever becomes the case.
He is not there yet, but he and staff must show care and discernment.
(I would provide a link to his speech but I found online only a composite with other more extensive lead-in content irrelevant to Trump's part of the Pentegon event.) Readers, please search the speech if caring enough, or take my analysis that he stood with no sway, and gave the speech from the two teleprompters, which is not unique, Biden having on occasion used a pair of teleprompters to aid his official event speeches.
It is a worry, but so far the point of considering ending the term before its scheduled end has not been reached. As best as Crabgrass has seen.
If the term ends early, JD appears like-minded to where policy would largely remain as it's been under Trump. Whether you view that as good or bad is a separate question.