Donald Trump has recently been in controversy about his health as a viral picture of him indicates the symptoms of Syphilis. The latest theory about him that is gaining traction on social media again, has people talking about the surprising topic of the former president’s health.
Medical experts have long since theorized that Trump has syphilis, and a picture of him waving, showing red sores on his hand, that is going viral on social media has people convinced that there may be some truth to the theory that Trump is suffering from an STD.
The theory had been proposed as early as February of 2017, when New Republic ran an eyebrow-raising article, suggesting that then-President Donald Trump’s behavior could be the result of an untreated STD.
The article, “A Medical Theory for Donald Trump’s Behavior,” was written by Dr. Steven Beutler, who’s described as having “spent over 30 years practicing medicine, specializing in infectious diseases.”
While acknowledging that he “cannot, of course, establish this diagnosis from a distance,” Beutler made the case that Trump suffers from “neurosyphilis,” which exhibits its first symptoms “in the form of psychiatric issues and personality changes.”
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According to Beutler, neurosyphilis is “seen 10 to 30 years after the initial infection, and it is best known for causing neurologic and neuropsychiatric disease.”
“Commonly recognized symptoms include irritability, loss of ability to concentrate, delusional thinking, and grandiosity. Memory, insight, and judgment can become impaired,” Beutler wrote.
“Insomnia may occur. Visual problems may develop, including the inability of pupils to react to the light. This, along other ocular pathology, can result in photophobia, dimming of vision, and squinting.”
Beutler raised the possibility that Trump could have been exposed to syphilis, linking this to Trump’s accounts of his past sexual life and the documented increase in syphilis cases in the 1980s. He drew attention to a particular interview from 1997 where Trump said he’s “been so lucky in terms of that whole world.”
