{"id":74275,"date":"2026-06-01T05:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/i-know-what-its-like-to-be-80-we-have-reason-to-worry-about-trumps-health-robert-reich\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:55:28","slug":"i-know-what-its-like-to-be-80-we-have-reason-to-worry-about-trumps-health-robert-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/i-know-what-its-like-to-be-80-we-have-reason-to-worry-about-trumps-health-robert-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"I know what it\u2019s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump\u2019s health | Robert Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physical and mental health aren\u2019t easily separated, especially at our age. And the president is showing many concerning signs<\/p>\n<p>I do not wish Trump ill. While he hasn\u2019t shown a shred of compassion for anyone other than himself, this doesn\u2019t justify any of us lacking compassion for him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also in the interest of the US and the world that he be physically and mentally able to discharge the duties of his office.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. \u2026 I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn\u2019t! \u2026 Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It\u2019s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it\u2019s hurting the Catholic Church!<\/p>\n<p>Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/\">robertreich.substack.com<\/a>. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.prh.com\/reich\">out now in the US<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scribepublications.co.uk\/books\/coming-up-short\">in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/01\/trump-what-its-like-to-be-80\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical and mental health aren\u2019t easily separated, especially at our age. And the president is showing many concerning signs I do not wish Trump ill. While he hasn\u2019t shown a shred of compassion for anyone other than himself, this doesn\u2019t justify any of us lacking compassion for him. It\u2019s also in the interest of the &#8230; <a title=\"I know what it\u2019s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump\u2019s health | Robert Reich\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/i-know-what-its-like-to-be-80-we-have-reason-to-worry-about-trumps-health-robert-reich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I know what it\u2019s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump\u2019s health | Robert Reich\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}