Remember That Donald Trump Was Born In A Time Of Widespread Lead-Based Paint Use

Dash MacIntyre
2 min readJul 16, 2022

President Donald Trump’s presidency was offensive to humanity, and ended with a deadly attempted coup against our democracy.

He has fascist tendencies along with an awful temperament and a sociopathic lack of morality, and is the personification of everything that is analytically senseless, excessively stupid, and culturally grotesque about American society.

But while we reflect on his general miserableness, we must charitably remember that Mr. Trump was born in 1946, a full 32 years before America stopped widely using lead-based paint in homes in 1978.

Little Donnie’s childhood home was without a doubt painted with lead-based paint, and it’s quite probable that Donnie began every morning eating an unbalanced breakfast of paint chips while growing up.

I’ve run the numbers, and I can confidently estimate that Trump has consumed not a lead-soaked paint chip fewer than 700 square feet throughout his formative years. That’s a lot of lead to get into his brain and block all his axons from efficiently transmitting electrical signals! Trump’s obvious cognitive issues, lack of intellectual curiosity, ego complexes, and general incapacity for empathy of any kind undoubtedly stem from this childhood lead poisoning.

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.