"There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness.
According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr.,
insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the
1990s. 'To retire is to expire!' Fred Sr. would say. The friend said
that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs
wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could
think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr.
would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers
to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it
could only dial out to his secretary. 'Fred pretended to work,' the
family friend said." -- Gabriel Sherman in a Vanity Fair article discussing a family disagreement between Trump's failsons and Javanka over whether to rein in the over- medicated tweeter- in- chief. Note the picture above of COVID Donnie signing a blank piece of paper, pretending to work, purportedly at Walter Reed on Saturday. (our emphasis)
