Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is raising alarms over what he calls Donald Trump’s health “crisis” and the consequences the 79-year-old president could face if he “doesn’t take his foot off the gas pedal.” Speaking on Wednesday, the Infowars host urged Trump’s inner circle to convince him to take regular breaks after comments about “heaven” from the president the day before fueled concerns about his condition.
“If the people around him could just get him to take off one day a week, if he could just go play golf and watch movies and have some fun—he deserves it,” Jones said. At his current pace, Jones warned, the president “is going to have some sort of collapse within the next 12 months.” He compared Trump to a “light bulb starting to go out.”
“I’ve seen a lot of signs of Trump declining,” Jones said. “And so he’s on a lot of the time, but like a light bulb is starting to go out. It gets brighter, it gets dim; it goes in and out.” Jones also cited Trump’s chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that affects blood circulation and, in Trump’s case, causes swollen ankles, as per reports from The Daily Beast.
“That’s not a good sign for the heart and the rest of the body, because the rest of him—he’s lost weight, he’s not that fat,” Jones said. “For everybody that you’ve known that’s having heart problems, that’s not good right there, okay? And they’re getting bigger and bigger.”
According to Jones, Trump’s workload is also excessive. “I know we have a crisis,” he said. “He’s hyper-competitive and hyper-aggressive. So, you talk about being in the zone, folks. It’s fair to say that Trump is unconscious, basically, for periods of the day now,” Jones continued. He compared the president’s exhaustion to his own stretches of sleeplessness fueled by adrenaline.
Jones claimed Trump tends to perform best during afternoon diplomatic events. “But you can watch the decline into the evening, and then also these morning interviews,” he said. “So it’s late at night, and he sounds like he’s drunk. He doesn’t drink, obviously. He’s exhausted. And then it is early in the morning, he doesn’t sound too hot.”
During a Fox & Friends call-in Tuesday morning, Trump appeared unable to name the ocean separating the U.S. from Europe and Russia. “And this is just one of many things I’ve been hearing and seeing him do that send up red flags,” Jones said.
The White House responded with a statement from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, Trump’s former White House physician. “As President Trump’s former personal physician, former Physician to the President, and White House physician for 14 years across three administrations, I can tell you unequivocally: President Donald J. Trump is the healthiest president this nation has ever seen,” Jackson said.
“I continue to consult with his current physician and medical team at the White House and still spend significant time with the President. He is mentally and physically sharper than ever before.”