Discussion: Is Trump medically qualified for the Presidency?(NSFW because Medicine)
Encouraged by an obvious meme I saw here earlier, I actually want to seriously engage with the question in the title. Also put the 14th and politics aside for a moment please. And no memes please.
When it comes to Trump, I feel the drama drowns out this reasonable question, especially in light of recent video-evidence.
Please link relevant and informed citations from medical experts.
Note: Leave Biden out of this, I make a second post for him specifically. I want to stay on point with medical things.
(And before someone smacks Rule 2 Button again: If you really are intersted in Conservatism and not just pandering to Trumpers, keep the post up for once and take this seriously)
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There is no medical qualification to be President.
The only requirements are that you be a natural born citizen, that you be 35 years old or more, and that you are not an insurrectionist. That’s it.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yikes, that rules out most of the GOP at this point.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 5 months ago
“Is X medically qualified” and “Is X legally medically qualified” are two different questions, only the former is being asked by OP.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neither is a qualification demanded by the constitution.
As stated, the only limiters are: natural born citizen, 35+, not an insurrectionist.
You could be on your death bed and if enough electoral votes come in, you’re President.
There literally is no health requirement. The closest is section 4 of the 25th Amendment, but that’s for someone already elected.
“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.”