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James Carville asks: 'Does Trump have syphilis?' - "That boy ain't right" [1]

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Date: 2025-03-01

Trump attacked Zelensky to his face. The world is shocked. Good people — left and right — are aghast. MAGA is ecstatic. Yet, whether horrified or delighted, most people maintain that this is just more of what you should expect from the miserable man.

The Trumpies celebrate a stand up guy, who tells the truth no matter who's pearl-clutching. Decent people condemn the rhetorical barbarity as the rant of a damaged man. James Carville has another theory. Trump has syphilis.

I'll let him explain his reasoning.

On Friday, Carville reflected on Trump's bitch ass rant at Zelensky in the Oval Office. On his YouTube channel Politicon (Full video at the bottom), he said — using a familiar expression in South Louisiana: "That boy ain't right."

Carville explained it meant that the subject had "some kind of personality disorder, or whatever." He then got down to cases:

"When you look at Trump, the first thing that comes to your mind 'that boy ain't right'.

Carville points out that when you have seen all the crazy things [Trump] does

"We've kind of become immune. It's almost like a yawn." However: "This one just stuck out as something really, even by Trumpian standards, which [makes it] hard to do something extraordinary."

This "extraordinary" event leads Carville to speculate:

"And us being rational people — us being people who believe in reason — are going to tend to wonder, 'What was the cause of this?' What was the cause of this man who's obviously, for a long time, been in decline? Who's fat. Who doesn't sleep at night. Who eats nothing but hamburgers and crap. Who's almost 80 years old. There's a tendency to just ascribe it to the normal process of being overweight. And having a bad diet. And lacks sleep. And accumulation of age."

Carville dismisses this standard reasoning.

"But I am not sure that explains something about today."

He opens the door to another possibility — using the Tucker Carlson go-to of 'I'm just asking questions.'

"I'm a guy who likes to ask questions. I like to speculate on things. And I want to see the possibility that maybe I had a point, considerably earlier than this, when I pointed out in this very channel, where Trump had red splotches on his hand, which I was told by any number of medical professionals that, when you see that condition, the first thing you suspect is syphilis."

Trump is undoubtedly a candidate for STDs. Stormy Daniels testified under oath that the adulterous lecher does not use condoms.

An orange man with red splotches. Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images Jan 17, 2024,

Carville fans the flames by adding that Melania obviously wants to be far away from her husband — saying she "doesn't want to get in the same zip code as him." This may not be the most compelling evidence — Melania has plenty of non-infectious reasons for her barge pole distance from hubby. But maybe she knows something.

He goes on to say about the Zelensky ambush:

“What you saw is madness. I don't mean madness like I'm mad at you. You're mad at me. I'm talking about madness like King George the Third kind of madness. And it could be a combination of being a fat fucking slob — which of course he is, He could be that he can't sleep at night because his beached whale body can't allow the circulation it needs.”

Carville stresses he's not a sleep specialist or medical doctor. But, he says:

"I think we should revisit the possibility of a syphilis diagnosis. I don't think we can discount the fact that what we saw was mad. I'm just making an observation that everyone saw. We know that boy ain't right. We know that. We saw it. We know that even in the world of Trumpian standards, we know this represents a significant deterioration."

Carville continues by saying people were willing to call out that Biden had lost a step or two in "the cognitive area." But, he asks:

"Who in the White House, or around Trump — because they have to know, we saw it, they have to see that madness.

Before something manifests itself in a venue like the Oval Office … this didn't happen out of the blue.

I cannot not not believe there were not indications to people around Trump that there had been a significant and — for all I know — a sudden deterioration."

Having planted the thought that Trump is a madman driven to the brink by a sexually transmitted bacteria, Carville says he will keep asking questions. He makes clear he is not qualified to render a medical opinion. But — again taking a page from the right-wing playbook — he asks the audience to do their research and try to determine if this is secondary or tertiary syphilis. Or something else — like gonorrhea.

"There is some possibility we have watched the effects of the latent STD."

He then asks his audience to weigh in on the subject.

It's a brilliant strategy. Raise a possibility. Deny you have any expertise on the subject. Then bring it up again. No tough guy looks strong if people buy that he has a dick disease — that also affects the brain and bones. Carville's framing is so satisfying because he uses MAGA media’s communication strategy against their godhead.

Let other lefties learn some lessons.

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