Not a Trump fan but I agree with you. What was he supposed to say? Doctors are never wrong, you had a good run but it’s time to face facts, etc.? Being upbeat and positive talking to someone with a terrible, probably terminal, illness is damned hard to do. I won’t criticize Trump for saying what he did and think this writer exposed himself as a petty a$$hole in doing so.
I had an uncle who came down with colon cancer and my father and I went to visit him. He 6’3” and usually weighted about 220#’s. His wife and her sister and their nurse would come into the living room and tell my uncle how much better he was looking today. Johnny was down to 90#s and looked like hell. My father left Johnny and me alone while the cheerleaders were out of the room.
Johnny asked me if I thought he was going to make it and I told him,”Johnny make your peace with God and settle your affairs because you are not.” In our younger years we had worked and ran around together so he trusted me. He looked toward the foot of the bed and thanked me.
All those women could not or would not tell him the facts and he just wanted to be sure.
He passed 2 weeks later but at least it was not kept from him.