So
as Mr. Trump seeks to become the oldest individual ever elected to the
office for a second term, recent questions about his mental and physical
condition have sent him into paroxysms of pique. They have complicated
his own efforts to question the health of his challenger and fellow
septuagenarian, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The
president elevated the issue this week by taking the bait of a critic’s
tweet and denying that he had “mini-strokes” last year around the time
of a mysterious trip to the hospital.
But Mr. Trump only raised more questions when he could not keep his
explanations for that hospital visit straight. He wrote that it “was to complete my yearly physical” — contrary to how he explained it at the time, when he said it was “phase one of my yearly physical” to be completed later.
The matter comes up a couple of months after Mr. Trump’s appearance at a commencement ceremony
at the United States Military Academy at West Point provoked
speculation because he had trouble lifting a water glass to his lips,
requiring him to use two hands, and he seemed especially tentative
walking down a ramp as if afraid he might fall. He bristled at the talk
and ridiculed the idea that he had any trouble that day. He has since
boasted that he has aced a dementia test showing that “I’m cognitively there.”
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