Trumpworld Erupts in Fury as Coverage of His Health Takes Brutal Turn

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

After Donald Trump attended his physical, he proclaimed his health perfect. Then the White House rapid response team—which leads the charge for Trumpworld—unleashed an extraordinary series of angry attacks on journalists. Their transgression? Reporting accurately on Trump’s decline. This comes as Trump’s physical exam has prompted brutal coverage of his deterioration. We’ve seen scalding on-air assessments of his health from doctors, as well as media coverage that meticulously lists out the symptoms of his decline and notes his lack of transparency about exam results. Like good little authoritarians, Trump and his propagandists feel compelled to portray him as a physical superman whose virility is unquestioned—but this just reminds everyone of what they can see with their own eyes. We talked to Michael Cohen, who writes well about Trump’s weakness for his Substack, Truth and Consequences. We discuss why the cult of Trump’s virility is backfiring and what it says about the failings of Trumpworld’s broader totalitarian playbook. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.2	Donald Trump just had a physical exam at Walter Reed Medical Center.
0:35.8	Right after it, he proclaimed himself to be in perfect health.
0:39.9	Then Trump's propagandists unleashed an extraordinary attack on journalists for the sin of pointing out that Trump regularly falls asleep at public events.
0:47.0	The moral is clear. Trump world knows that the second he's perceived as weak in any way,
0:53.1	his whole political mystique is at risk of imploding.
0:57.1	We think it's not a coincidence that this comes amid new signs that Trump may emerge from the Iran war
1:02.7	with less than a world historical victory. Indeed, Trump exploded over this at the news media
1:08.5	just now as well. So we're working through all of it with Michael Cohen, who does good work on his
1:14.5	substack, truth and consequences, dissecting both Trump's weakness and his authoritarianism.
1:21.0	Michael, good to have you on.
1:22.5	Great, great to be here. Thanks for having me.
1:25.0	So Trump just tweeted this, quote,
1:30.5	Just finished my six-month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out perfectly. Michael, I don't know how his physical went,
1:37.8	but the symptoms are constant. There's the bruising on his hand, which he covers with makeup,
1:42.6	the swelling in his legs, the rash on his neck,
1:45.8	and the constant falling asleep at official events right on live television, not to mention
1:50.7	the constant slurring, the constant incoherence, the constant losing of his train of thought.
1:56.4	Trump is obviously deteriorating. What do you think about that?
1:59.4	I mean, there's no question about it. I mean, you've seen a significant deterioration.
2:02.9	I mean, I think one of the problems of Trump is that he's always somebody who is never
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