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'Death warmed over': Trump's France appearance fuels new health concerns
The Presidency as a Staged PerformanceThe BriefingThe source story is simple: Donald Trump, now 80, was photographed and filmed moving from a White House UFC event to France for the G7 Summit, where the stated agenda included the Iran deal and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. That sequence triggered public speculation about his health, while the White House pushed the opposite image: a president who never stops, never slows, never yields.Who Holds PowerThe institutional power here sits with the presidency and the White House machinery around it. That matters because the question is not whether…
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