During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump mocked a reporter with physical disabilities. In 2018, after hearing an injured veteran sing “God Bless America,” Trump was reported saying, “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.” In 2024, his nephew notes that following a meeting with disability advocates in the Oval Office, Trump said, “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.
” And now, Trump says the Presidential Medal of Freedom “is actually much better” than the Medal of Honor, because service members who receive the nation’s highest military decoration are often wounded or awarded after their death. I am the mother of an adult son with medical complexities and physical disabilities. He was treated with radiation therapy for an inoperable brain tumor at age 12 and survived.
He had cognitive impairments and physical disabilities. He graduated from high school and worked part time. He developed his art and loved following basketball – Duke University and the Carlisle Thundering Herd.
A year ago, at age 38, my son suffered a brain hemorrhage, most likely a late effect of the radiation. He is wheelchair bound, has a trach, a PEG tube and a Foley catheter. He doesn’t talk and cannot walk.
My son is my heart and soul. What would Donald Trump think of my son? Should he just die? In contrast, I am fairly sure that if Vice President Kamala Harris were to meet my son, she.