Donald Trump has fueled new hypothesis about his well being after an ungainly descent on Air Power One’s stairs.
A video of the 79-year-old president exiting the aircraft at Palm Seashore Worldwide Airport on Saturday morning, posted by MAGA influencer Paul Villarreal, has drawn consideration on-line for Trump’s odd hand motion and sluggish, cautious descent.
Within the video, Trump seems on the plane door and slaps his proper leg 3 times along with his proper hand earlier than heading down the steps. He cautiously navigates the steps whereas gripping tightly onto the railing, taking about 18 seconds to succeed in the underside of the brief staircase.
He then plops into “The Beast,” the closely armored presidential automobile, the place he’s seen consuming what seems to be a Food regimen Coke. Trump is spending Christmas at his Mar-a-Lago property.
Critics on-line have been fast to notice the president’s obvious frailty and peculiar leg-slapping.
“Tapping that leg to verify it really works happening,” one X person commented.
One other wrote, “I want he targeting the economic system like he targeting happening these stairs.”
President Donald Trump, 79, has now been caught showing to fall asleep at 4 official occasions in six weeks. His public naps have fueled contemporary scrutiny of his psychological and bodily health. / Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos
One particular person hypothesized about his hand motions, “It’s not his leg he’s touching, however he’s making an attempt to get life again into his hand.”
The aged president’s supporters defended him, nonetheless, with many mentioning that Trump had simply wrapped up a protracted day, together with a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Trump—who was filmed stumbling on Air Power One’s stairs throughout a go to to New Jersey in June this 12 months—has often spoken about being “very cautious” about strolling down stairs to keep away from the perils of his predecessor, Joe Biden.
“I’m very cautious. You understand, after I stroll downstairs—like I’m on stairs like these stairs—I stroll very slowly,“ Trump mentioned whereas addressing the nation’s high generals in September.
Just a few days later, he introduced up the topic once more whereas taking pictures at Biden throughout a speech to Navy sailors.
“We had a horrible, horrible president who had no clue what the hell was taking place. The probabilities of him strolling down these stairs efficiently weren’t good,” he mentioned. “And I’ve to watch out as a result of sooner or later I’m gonna most likely fall.”
The commander-in-chief then revealed what he apparently tells himself whereas strolling down stairs: “I all the time say, ‘Stroll down the steps good and slowly.’ You ever discover? I don’t need to bop down the steps. ‘Stroll good and slowly.’”
Questions round Trump’s well being have dogged him in his second time period, notably after he let slip that he had undergone an MRI scan in October.
The White Home finally mentioned it was a “preventative” take a look at his coronary heart and stomach, a declare met with skepticism from medical consultants who confused that there was “nothing normal” in regards to the scan.
The Each day Beast has reached out to the White Home for remark.