Trump in 'excellent health' after annual checkup | Simon Marks reacts

Donald Trump's health reports are in and it turns out he's practically an Avenger.

He's a lion of a man, James.I know that's going to be a surprise to everybody.An absolute lion of a man. I mean, that is the view of none other than the White House physician.And President Trump has spent now, what are we, four days consistently celebrating it.I see late last night, before he went to bed at 11 o 'clock in the evening, he retweeted on his social media platform an article from a very pro -Trump website, Just the News.outlined Trump scores 30 out of 30 on cognitive assessment looks 14 years younger than he is according to the outcome of that physical examination that was conducted last week at Walter Reed Military Medical Center just outside Washington and the president over the weekend in what was even by local standards a what they refer to here as a high -volume posting weekend on the president's social media account, was obsessed with it.

I mean, at one point he took to his social media platform to say, unlike other US presidents, none of whom have ever taken an approved high -difficulty cognitive test, I scored a perfect 30 out of 30, considered extreme intelligence and just in case everybody had missed the point he also went on to observe this is my fourth such test all perfect a hundred and twenty correct answers out of a hundred and twenty questions asked it is rare that anyone gets a perfect score especially when achieved four times in a row so he was once again claiming as he said before that he is an incredibly stable genius unfortunately everything else that was this sort of stream of detritus on his social media feed raised questions about his mental health.in the minds of many people that were looking at it.But on that cognitive score... 30 out of 30.

name on the day of the January the 6th insurrection.They've all got him exercised.Tell us why but make sure you leave enough time to tell us also about this phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Well, let me deal with the Kennedy Center and the anti -weaponization fund together, because they're kind of linked in the sense that the American media's framing of what's taking place is not entirely consistent with what is actually taking place.You're going to see headlines out there about Donald Trump is thinking of walking back his idea of setting up this $1 .776 billion weaponization fund to pay off his mates who ransacked Congress on January the 6th, 2021, that Donald Trump is changed his mind.I mean, Trump is framing the story that in his fury with the judge who has said he can't name the centre after himself, even though he's already done it, and it's got his name outside it.He's walking away.He's handing control of the Kennedy Centre back to Congress.Well as the judge observed, control of the Kennedy Centre had never been taken away from Congress.

It's not as though Donald Trump legally has control of the Kennedy Center.So those are huge reverses for him.And this America 250, this Freedom 250 set of concerts that's due to be taking place here on the National Mall later this month, part of America's 250th birthday commemorations, falling apart because you've got top musical acts, including Bret Michaels, the front man of Poison, Martina McBride, the Commodores, various others, top acts that they had booked, all saying, we thought we were coming to take part in a national celebration.We now discover it's going to be highly politicized by the White House.We're dropping out.And that raises a bigger question here about the July 4th celebrations of America's 250th birthday that are on the horizon.

can the country come together in any kind of united way when the President of the United States is now determined to turn those celebrations into a politically infused celebration of of his own administration.I think we're beginning to see a lot of public disquiet and uncertainty about the extent to which people want to participate in these events.

And that seven -hour rampage of social media postings, more than 50 in total, also saw him compare himself to George Washington, publish an image depicting his own fizzle chiseled into Mount Rushmore and more threats to seize Greenland, as well as promoting an hour -long interview conducted for Fox News by his own daughter -in -law which presumably makes GBB's attempts to interview look like Watergate or Frost Nixon.actually, would have been a better joke if I thought of it quickly enough.And so to this phone call, this extraordinary phone call between Donald Trump and the man who reportedly persuaded him to go to war against Iran.

Yeah, I mean, I do want to make the point, James, as you and I have made before, that the first reports of this were funneled by the White House to one particular reporter at the website Axios, who is continually on the receiving end of reports from the White House that don't always turn out to be accurate and invariably turn out not to be, yeah, precisely.However, there are multiple media outlets saying that this call yesterday with Benjamin Netanyahu was definitely very testy.In the telling of the original report to the website Axios, at one point, President Trump said to Benjamin Netanyahu, words to this effect, you're blank crazy.You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass.Everybody hates you now.Everybody hates Israel because of this.

I mean, what this underscores is two things.First of all, that Benjamin Netanyahu, you know, whatever the actual words President Trump used, Benjamin Netanyahu is acting independently of the United States, and that's partly the United States' fault.I mean, they supercharged his capacity to take the lead in Iran by agreeing to launch assaults on Iran on Benjamin Netanyahu's timetable on February the 28th.But it also underscores that President Trump is under fire from the right of his own right wing.I mean, he's under fire from leading prominent figures within his own Make America Great Again grouping, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, a growing number of them, for always backing Israel.this is coming at a time when for the first time in the modern era for the first time you know since since polling on this issue began public support for Israel is now in the minority in the United States no longer in the majority that's a problem for Trump It's also a massive problem for Democrats, especially as wealthy pro -Israel lobby groups like AIPAC continue to pollute American politics.

And they're one of many groups polluting American politics with insane amounts of money.This is going to be a huge issue in the midterms and in the 2028 presidential election, as politicians of both parties have to deal with shifting public opinions here about Israel.