was the question Ms W asked me yesterday. She gave me the sort of look which tells me she is stirring the waters - but only slightly.
What she really wanted to know was what was going on in the media and who was saying what - and why they were saying it. Her father's job, in which she takes an interest, is very much involved in these things from time to time.
We agreed that he probably is not well and that he is high risk - age and obesity do not help.
"Stupid not to wear a mask," Ms W told me. I can only agree. I suspect he has been bullying the First Lady into not wearing one as well.
"And what happens if he can't be President any more?" she asked.
"Well what happens here if the Prime Minister can't do the job or goes on holiday?"
"The Deputy Prime Minister does it. Oh, so the Deputy President, the Vice President does it?"
"Correct."
Ms W thought about that and told me that she thought they were both "pretty hopeless". (She has no regard for the other side of US politics either.)
So we went back to the question of whether "Mr Trump is really sick" and she decided that "He probably is. I mean the media would have to be all in it together with all his staff if he wasn't and that seems like it wouldn't happen."
We went on to the more interesting question of what happens when people in powerful positions become ill and the importance of being able to delegate and trust those to whom you delegate. Ms W's cynicism about the capacity of those in authority to do just that is interesting.
I think she has been spending too much time with the politicians (of all persuasions) her father has to work with and try to make see reason at times.
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I can totally understand Ms W's questioning whether he is truly sick or not. Ms W is right to question what she sees and hears in the media. It gives me hope in the future when our young people demonstrate logical, critical thinking.
The President has provided 'alternative facts' aka lies about so many things and propagated simultaneously conflicting points of view and other acts of obfuscation, that it wouldn't surprise me if he isn't sick and wants to look like a hero; but then he has been so reckless and careless about conduct around covid-19 it is no surprise if he is infected after all - a kind of natural justice for those who laugh in the face of a highly infectious life-altering disease.
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