The Orange Man standing mindlessly while someone is being helped after fainting in the Oval Office is a perfect picture. But I do believe he was having a seizure of some kind. That kind of blank stare seems health-related, and only amplifies the mystery: What, exactly, is wrong with the president of the United States? Besides the obvious dementia, I mean.
The occasion of the picture was a press conference announcing his deal for obesity drugs. I for one was fairly cynical about Trump’s plan — not because it’s a bad idea (it isn’t!), but because I suspect the idea was driven by his personal distaste for fat people. Via the New York Times:
Mr. Trump, top U.S. health officials and drug company executives at the White House outlined broader coverage of the injectable drugs for people on Medicare and Medicaid, the federal insurance programs for older people; many who have disabilities; and those with lower incomes. The deal also lowers the prices the government programs will pay.
Those measures are likely to expand access but still will stop far short of covering all of the millions of people with obesity under the federal programs.
