When Donald Trump sat down for his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, the focus was on the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. That held, for a while. Then viewers paused the footage, looked at the back of his trousers, and the conversation shifted fast.
A certified speech-language pathologist has since weighed in with an alternative theory that is, if anything, more concerning than what it replaced.
The initial speculation online was that an adult diaper was visible beneath Trump’s suit.
The theory is not new.
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Former Celebrity Apprentice staffer Noel Casler has claimed for years that Trump wore incontinence products on set, and a speech-language pathologist identified only as Hilary M.A. CCC-SLP had previously flagged a slurping sound in Trump’s speech as potentially indicative of a serious neurological condition.
“That slurping sound is an indicator to me as a speech-language pathologist that something is very, very wrong with this man’s brain,” she said in January, noting that progressive conditions including dementia, Parkinson’s and ALS all produce this symptom.
The same pathologist returned with a different read on the 60 Minutes footage.
“While it is possible that he is wearing a diaper, I do not think that any diaper, whether it is full or not, could create this kind of outline and shape,” she said.
Her focus shifted away from the bulge itself and toward something else entirely.
“I actually think what he has is some type of hip stabilizer for a chair.”
The detail she pointed to was the setup.
Trump’s public appearances almost always place him behind something solid, a podium, a desk, or a chair with armrests. Sunday’s interview offered none of that. A chair without arms, nothing in front, and no visible support. For someone his age with known conditions, she argued, that kind of setup looks odd.
“This chair does not have arms, nor does he have anything in front of it,” she said. “I think that he absolutely cannot sit upright in a chair without the potential of falling over. So, it is very likely that whoever helped set this up used some type of hip stabilizer.”
She drew a simple comparison.
Hip stabilizers, she explained, work on the same principle as foam seats used to support infants who cannot yet sit upright on their own.
“I’ve seen the use of hip stabilizers from when I worked in long-term care, so that would be my guess,” she said.
She also pointed to his clothing.
“He always wears his jackets, his sport coats are always way too big on him, way too long, so they can cover a whole, whole host of different things. Who knows what’s going on under that coat. So, great, a president who can’t sit in a chair all by himself, getting closer and closer to being a baby. We are leaving toddlerhood, going right back down to being a baby.”
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