The problem with Trump’s mortality

 

Let’s begin by saying I am not a fan of Trump, his ideas, his policies, his administration and just him. I never was a fan.

I didn’t like the Apprentice. I thought it was a weak show. I saw it a few times. Also though I should state I am not a fan of reality shows in general. On occasion I will see one, but I avoid them as much as possible.

I wasn’t a fan of him in the 80’s and 90’s, yet not being a New Yorker I didn’t know much about him. It struck me odd that so many people talked about him, yet every other article about him showed him as a failure or a person not of high moral standing so to speak. Bankruptcies, affairs and failed marriages seemed to dominate the headlines about him. This post isn’t about all that, just wanted to lead into a different take.

I wrote a few days ago about Trump being a test for Christians. You can read that if you like.  Yet as a Christian we are charged with keeping people out of hell. It is our responsibility to save souls. So, it also amazes me all these Evangelicals spend more time praising him than trying to save him. Seems like that test needs to be graded on a curve. And based on what I know I think it might be. At least for us Catholics we get reconciliation as a chance to find that curve. Who knows though.

If as a Christian you need to worry about his soul then we should also worry about his health. And I am worried, however some of my concerns are based more on what happens after he passes away than him passing away. Well I need to at least say I hope he finds God before he passes away. The current crop around him doesn’t seem to be helping save him.

I read about his health being somewhat benign. I doubt it. Those pinata size ankles do not look good. I posted on “X” that he may be sleep deprived. I am confounded by the fact that isn’t spoken about more.

It is always a concern when a President passes away. It really hasn’t happened in our country very often. Yet the turmoil that will surround his death will be tumultuous.

There is a procedure to swear in Vance as President and will be set up rather quickly. The technical succession transition is established. And that is about it when it comes to sanity.

My fears revolve around the turmoil and what certain people will try to get away with in the interim and soon thereafter of Trump’s passing. I fear Andrew Vought, Stephen Miller and especially J.D. Vance for starters.

And interestingly enough Lawrence O’Donnell from MSNBC gave a brief story about J. D Vance positioning himself to take over. I won’t get into the details. You can watch it yourself, but he references a social media post Vance made that sounded to O’Donnell that he is starting to force some hands and if those hands are forced it might lead to Trump’s downfall. That is one story developing now. Let’s see how far that goes.

A more deeper and troubling concern about J. D. Vance is something liberal and conservative commentators and writers are espousing. And that is the notion of whether this is a country of an idea or a nation state. Jonah Goldberg of the Dispatch and Dr. Heather Cox Richardson (she actually was on a video I saw and said she may write a piece) have articles out discussing what are we as a country that does a much better job of describing the problem in Vance’s ideology than I would be able to detail in my mild ramblings. The gist of their arguments goes back to who we are as a country. Vance’s version of the argument brings up the worst version of this country, stating that citizenship resides more in how long you have lived here versus what you believe about who we are. Please look for both discussions. Again they do a much better job of laying out what this is all about than I can. I also believe this is a country of “idea” and ideals more so than if you came here in 1600 or not. You can be a pilgrim descendant yet if you fight against the Constitution are you truly a citizen of this country. Some scary thoughts being promoted by Vance question the legitimacy of our fundamental values and puts some very nasty values above our Constitution.

And then there is Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025, the ultimate bogeyman item of the Democrats and more importantly should be all Americans. I am a conservative and I know some don’t think so, but if you are a conservative you desire conserving our values. Those values come from the Constitution first. Any policies, programs or actions that go against the values and ideas of the Constitution are not conservative values in my worldview.

And of course another favorite bogeyman is Stephen Miller.  I need to go to confession for my thoughts on Mr. Miller. Personally I feel he is a soulless husk of a human. His soul has already gone to hell and his body and actions just fulfill what put his soul in hell in the first place. So let me admit I am being judgmental, but hey until he changes his ways, that is the way I feel.

And there are many others that will take advantage of the resulting chaos that will ensue when President Trump passes away. Some will be grifters, others will try and claim the mantle of the head of MAGA, who knows how the MAGA faithful will react, others will try and rush their agendas (Vance or Speaker Johnson for examples) through Congress before the dust settles and more rational people begin to climb back into the picture.

Let’s face reality. President Trump is old and depending on you who follow his health might be questionable. Personally I worry it is not good. He has never been known to be a health nut, has bad health habits, to me is dangerously sleep deprived and the possibility of a stroke concerns me. And maybe a stroke is more dangerous because it would put the Presidency in some sort of limbo until it was determined if a succession should be put in place. The resulting chaos from the confusion or the resulting power plays would be horrendous to our country.

Again I am not a fan of Trump, tariffs, his immigration policy, his big beautiful bill, DOGE or anything else his name is attached to in this administration. I am a fan of stronger immigration policy, reduced and effective government spending, reducing the debt, changing the tax code to better benefit the vast majority of this country, improving Social Security and more. I doubt any of my ideas would come to fruition in the resulting chaos, yet that is another story and another time, hopefully extremely much sooner than what it looks like now. Yet all what Trump supports would look like child’s play if the worst impulses of his administration were to take hold if he passes away while President.

The Democrats are clueless and there are no other political entities or parties to usher in something more pragmatic when he passes so we not only stare Trump’s mortality in the face we may be staring our country’s mortality in the face if many other forces in this country don’t prepare themselves for this eventuality.