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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    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.

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

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      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.

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        I mean there’s a reason they don’t talk about the banality of charity, after all.

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        Old but still relevant."The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray. Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump – judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself – but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee amid a case involving an undocumented defendant. Recently, Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit – an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society – issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the US and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote: If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning. Wilkinson’s fears are already being realized. Ice recently deported three US citizens – aged two, four and seven – when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children, who has stage 4 cancer, was sent out of the US without medication or consultation with doctors. Meanwhile, the regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as buffers against tyranny – !universities, non-profits, lawyers and law firms, the media, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service and independent agencies – threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they do not submit to its oversight and demands. Trump has even instructed the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the platform that handles the fundraising for almost all Democratic candidates and the issues Democrats support. We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground Meanwhile, Trump is actively destroying the economy. His proposed tariffs are already raising prices. His attacks on the Fed chief, Jerome Powell, are causing tremors around the world. Trump wants total power, even at the cost of our democracy and economy. His polls are plummeting yet many Americans are still in denial. “He’s getting things done!” some say. “He’s tough and strong!” Every American with any shred of authority must loudly and boldly explain the danger we are in. A few Democratic members and progressives in Congress (Bernie Sanders, AOC, Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy) have expressed outrage, but most seem oddly quiet. Granted, they have no direct power to stop what is occurring but they cannot and must not appear to acquiesce. They need to be heard, every day – protesting, demanding, resisting, refusing. Barack Obama has spoken up at least once, to his credit, but where is my old boss, Bill Clinton? Where is George W Bush? Where are their former vice-presidents – Al Gore and Dick Cheney? Where are their former cabinet members? They all must be heard, too. What about Republican members of Congress? Are none willing to stand up against what is occurring? And what of Republican governors and state legislators? If there were ever a time for courage and integrity, it is now. Their silence is inexcusable. Over 400 university presidents have finally issued a letter opposing “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education”. Good. Now they must speak out against the overreach endangering all of American democracy. Hundreds of law firms have joined a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the law firm Perkins Coie’s appeal of the regime’s demands. Fine. Now, they along with the American Bar Association and every major law school must sound the alarm about Trump’s vindictive and abusive use of the justice department. America’s religious leaders have a moral obligation to speak out. They have a spiritual duty to their congregations and to themselves to make their voices heard. The leaders of American business – starting with Jamie Dimon, the chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who in normal times has assumed the role of spokesperson for American business – have been conspicuously silent. Of course they fear Trump’s retribution. Of course they hope for a huge tax cut. But these hardly excuse their seeming assent to the destruction of American democracy. We have witnessed what can happen in just the first 100 days. I’m not at all sure we can wait until the 2026 midterm elections and hope that Democrats take back at least one chamber of Congress. At the rate this regime is wreaking havoc, too much damage will have been done by then. The nation is tottering on the edge of dictatorship. We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground.! Soon, I fear, the regime will openly defy the supreme court. Americans must be mobilized into such a huge wave of anger and disgust that members of the House are compelled to impeach Trump (for the third time) and enough senators are moved to finally convict him. Then this shameful chapter of American history will end.”

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      I don’t even understand that at all. For an emergency, are six ambulances somehow better than one? What are the other 5 going to do when transporting him?

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      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…

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    This is nothing to do with health.

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

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    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

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    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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      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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        Absolutely he’s not healthy at all. I just feel he’s talking about other things here, but it’s probably a soup of disease where he’s just talking about himself as a whole tbh now that I have read it again after my breakfast.

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          I think he just rambles in stream of consciousness, and at the moment he’s dying, so that’s what he’s thinking about. But also the raping.

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          Yeah, these vices give you problems. I’m not going to say my vices as the problem is that I would not be here.

          How do you interpret that as illness?

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          Ya, its like a few months ago when he tweeted an ai picture of like a skeleton and it said, “haunt them in their dreams” in like blood red. Its giving the same sick vibes.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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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    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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    “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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      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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    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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      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.

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        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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          It’s “the best Dune” in the way that Donaldo is “making *** great ***”. It’s a completely terrible movie that the (excellent) director basically gave up on and is incredibly embarrassed about (correctly)

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            Alright I’m going to get it out there. Dune (1984) is a horrendously bad film. A blemish on Lynch’s (otherwise quite good) career. It must be unbelievably embarrassing to have your name on that piece of shit though. I hope it keeps him up at night. Holy shit

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    ‘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