I mean sure seems like something a Harvard rowing team coxswain would be saying is happening.

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    Oof yeah thats an old man who’s unlikely to make enough of a recovery to be doing speeches for a living again. Didn’t see if it’s full body sagittal droop or just facial. Former says stroke, latter says palsy. Like neither is good for him but palsy is manageable, stroke in a 79 year old is entirely likely to be the beginning of the end.

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      Latter can also say stroke, just localized to the area of the brain that controls the facial nerve.

      My hope is that something blows out in his brainstem. If he survives it, there’s no way he’d be able to hide the effects of that.

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      You can see in the clip he checks his left hand with a lift but can’t match it with his right hand. Similarly, he conspicuously doesn’t move his right hand in his most recent recorded speech.